The Guard
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The Guard is a darkly comedic Irish crime film in which Brendan Gleeson plays an unconventional small-town police officer drawn into an international drug-smuggling investigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Guard canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5788459 — 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 Guard Context triple: [Brendan Gleeson, notableWork, The Guard]
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A.
Inner Guard
The Inner Guard is a Masonic lodge officer responsible for guarding the entrance from within and controlling admission to meetings.
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B.
La Guardia
La Guardia is an Italian-origin surname most famously associated with Fiorello H. La Guardia, the influential three-term mayor of New York City in the early 20th century.
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C.
Guards
Guards is an honorific military designation historically awarded to elite, highly distinguished units in various armed forces, particularly in the Soviet and Russian militaries.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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E.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- 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 Guard Target entity description: The Guard is a darkly comedic Irish crime film in which Brendan Gleeson plays an unconventional small-town police officer drawn into an international drug-smuggling investigation.
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A.
Inner Guard
The Inner Guard is a Masonic lodge officer responsible for guarding the entrance from within and controlling admission to meetings.
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B.
La Guardia
La Guardia is an Italian-origin surname most famously associated with Fiorello H. La Guardia, the influential three-term mayor of New York City in the early 20th century.
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C.
Guards
Guards is an honorific military designation historically awarded to elite, highly distinguished units in various armed forces, particularly in the Soviet and Russian militaries.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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E.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| award |
IFTA Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film (Brendan Gleeson)
NERFINISHED
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IFTA Award for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Sergeant Gerry Boyle – Brendan Gleeson
NERFINISHED
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Wendell Everett – Don Cheadle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Larry Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| director | John Michael McDonagh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Element Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Chris Gill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | FBI agent Wendell Everett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Connemara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Galway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | investigation into international drug smuggling ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
clash between local and international policing
ⓘ
corruption in law enforcement ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sergeant Gerry Boyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Calexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Brendan Gleeson’s lead performance
ⓘ
mix of dark humor and crime drama ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | unconventional small-town police officer ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Clark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mimi Polk Gitlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned Dowd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Element Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reprisal Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseCountry |
Ireland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| setIn |
County Galway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Brendan Gleeson
NERFINISHED
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David Wilmot NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Cheadle NERFINISHED ⓘ Fionnula Flanagan NERFINISHED ⓘ Liam Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Strong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | John Michael McDonagh 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 Guard Description of subject: The Guard is a darkly comedic Irish crime film in which Brendan Gleeson plays an unconventional small-town police officer drawn into an international drug-smuggling investigation.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
La Garde