The Public Eye (1992 film)
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The Public Eye is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film starring Joe Pesci as a tabloid photographer in 1940s New York who becomes entangled in a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Public Eye | 1 |
| The Public Eye (1992 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778797 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Public Eye (1992 film) Context triple: [Jay Cassidy, workedOn, The Public Eye (1992 film)]
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A.
The Parallax View
The Parallax View is a 2006 philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that explores how irreconcilable perspectives shape ideology, subjectivity, and reality.
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B.
The Parallax View (1974 film)
The Parallax View (1974 film) is a 1974 American political thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula, renowned for its paranoid atmosphere and conspiracy-laden narrative about a journalist uncovering a shadowy organization behind political assassinations.
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C.
Private Eyes
"Private Eyes" is a 1981 pop-rock song and album by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, known for its catchy chorus and signature early-’80s sound.
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D.
Good Eye
"Good Eye" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2009 rock album *Working on a Dream*.
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E.
Deep Throat Part II
Deep Throat Part II is a 1974 American sex comedy film that serves as the non-pornographic sequel to the landmark adult film Deep Throat.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Public Eye (1992 film) Target entity description: The Public Eye is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film starring Joe Pesci as a tabloid photographer in 1940s New York who becomes entangled in a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
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A.
The Parallax View
The Parallax View is a 2006 philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that explores how irreconcilable perspectives shape ideology, subjectivity, and reality.
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B.
The Parallax View (1974 film)
The Parallax View (1974 film) is a 1974 American political thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula, renowned for its paranoid atmosphere and conspiracy-laden narrative about a journalist uncovering a shadowy organization behind political assassinations.
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C.
Private Eyes
"Private Eyes" is a 1981 pop-rock song and album by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, known for its catchy chorus and signature early-’80s sound.
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D.
Good Eye
"Good Eye" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2009 rock album *Working on a Dream*.
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E.
Deep Throat Part II
Deep Throat Part II is a 1974 American sex comedy film that serves as the non-pornographic sequel to the landmark adult film Deep Throat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Arthur Fellig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Frank Farinelli
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kay Levitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Leon "Bernzy" Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Sal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Peter Suschitzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Howard Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Universal Pictures
ⓘ
Universal Studios Home Video NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Evan Lottman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Cincinnati
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
drama ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasPoster | theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Weegee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Isham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocationPeriod | post-war era ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A tabloid photographer in 1940s New York becomes entangled in a dangerous criminal conspiracy. ⓘ |
| producer |
Mark Gordon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sue Baden-Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1992-10-16 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Howard Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1940s ⓘ |
| stars |
Barbara Hershey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jared Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Pesci NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Riehle NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Tucci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Public Eye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Public Eye (1992 film) Description of subject: The Public Eye is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film starring Joe Pesci as a tabloid photographer in 1940s New York who becomes entangled in a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Public Eye