The Night Listener
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The Night Listener is a 2006 psychological thriller film starring Robin Williams as a late-night radio host who becomes entangled in a mysterious and unsettling relationship with a young fan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Night Listener canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778808 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Night Listener Context triple: [Jay Cassidy, workedOn, The Night Listener]
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A.
Before I Go to Sleep
Before I Go to Sleep is a psychological thriller film about an amnesiac woman who struggles to uncover the truth about her past as she questions the motives of those around her.
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B.
Fugitive Pieces
Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel, exploring memory, loss, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust through the life of a rescued Polish boy.
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C.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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D.
Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark is a reflective, often humorous collection of theological meditations and essays by American writer and minister Frederick Buechner.
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E.
Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 MGM comedy-mystery film starring Red Skelton as a radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in a real-life murder plot.
- 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 Night Listener Target entity description: The Night Listener is a 2006 psychological thriller film starring Robin Williams as a late-night radio host who becomes entangled in a mysterious and unsettling relationship with a young fan.
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A.
A Quiet Thing
"A Quiet Thing" is a reflective, understated song by John Kander and Fred Ebb from the musical Flora the Red Menace, known for its gentle meditation on the unexpected subtlety of true happiness.
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B.
Before I Go to Sleep
Before I Go to Sleep is a psychological thriller film about an amnesiac woman who struggles to uncover the truth about her past as she questions the motives of those around her.
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C.
Fugitive Pieces
Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel, exploring memory, loss, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust through the life of a rescued Polish boy.
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D.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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E.
Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark is a reflective, often humorous collection of theological meditations and essays by American writer and minister Frederick Buechner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Armistead Maupin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Night Listener NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| character | Gabriel Noone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Lisa Rinzler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Patrick Stettner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editedBy | Andy Keir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice | voice-over narration ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loneliness
ⓘ
obsession ⓘ trust ⓘ unreliable narration ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Peter Nashel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | late-night radio show ⓘ |
| notableFor | Robin Williams dramatic performance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Jeffrey Sharp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Kessel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hart-Sharp Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2006-08-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 82 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Armistead Maupin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patrick Stettner NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| starring |
Bobby Cannavale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Morton NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Rory Culkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandra Oh NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Collette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
identity deception
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mysterious relationship ⓘ radio host ⓘ |
| title | The Night Listener NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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 Night Listener Description of subject: The Night Listener is a 2006 psychological thriller film starring Robin Williams as a late-night radio host who becomes entangled in a mysterious and unsettling relationship with a young fan.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.