King Rat
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King Rat is a 1965 war drama film set in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, noted for its exploration of survival and morality and featuring James Fox in a prominent role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Rat canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5854295 — 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: King Rat Context triple: [James Fox, notableWork, King Rat]
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A.
Kingfish
Kingfish is an American rock band best known for its association with Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and its roots in the 1970s Bay Area music scene.
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B.
The Chief
The Chief is the nickname of Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame NBA center best known for his long, successful tenure with the Boston Celtics and his record for most games played in league history.
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C.
Noble Ape
Noble Ape is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, featuring his trademark observational humor about everyday life, family, and food.
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D.
King Kuru
King Kuru is a legendary ancestral monarch in Indian epic tradition, regarded as the progenitor of the Kuru clan central to the Mahabharata.
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E.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
- 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: King Rat Target entity description: King Rat is a 1965 war drama film set in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, noted for its exploration of survival and morality and featuring James Fox in a prominent role.
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A.
Kingfish
Kingfish is an American rock band best known for its association with Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and its roots in the 1970s Bay Area music scene.
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B.
The Chief
The Chief is the nickname of Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame NBA center best known for his long, successful tenure with the Boston Celtics and his record for most games played in league history.
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C.
Noble Ape
Noble Ape is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, featuring his trademark observational humor about everyday life, family, and food.
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D.
King Kuru
King Kuru is a legendary ancestral monarch in Indian epic tradition, regarded as the progenitor of the Kuru clan central to the Mahabharata.
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E.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | World War II novel ⓘ |
| author | James Clavell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | King Rat (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Burnett Guffey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | American black-and-white film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts | Japanese-occupied Singapore POW camp ⓘ |
| director | Bryan Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| era | 1960s American cinema ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Corporal King
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
life in a POW camp
ⓘ
prisoners' social hierarchy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
George Segal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producedBy |
Bryan Forbes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Dozier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1965-10-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 134 ⓘ |
| screenplayBasedOn | James Clavell's experiences as POW ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bryan Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Japanese prisoner-of-war camp ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Denholm Elliott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Segal NERFINISHED ⓘ James Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ James Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick O'Neal NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
morality
ⓘ
survival ⓘ |
| title | King Rat 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: King Rat Description of subject: King Rat is a 1965 war drama film set in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, noted for its exploration of survival and morality and featuring James Fox in a prominent role.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tom Courtenay