Light Sleeper
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Light Sleeper is a 1992 neo-noir drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader, following a drug courier in New York City undergoing a moral and existential crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Light Sleeper canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6043100 — 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: Light Sleeper Context triple: [Paul Schrader, notableWork, Light Sleeper]
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A.
Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 science-fiction comedy film by Woody Allen that satirizes futuristic society through the misadventures of a man who wakes up 200 years after being cryogenically frozen.
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B.
Sleeper
Sleeper is a critically acclaimed WildStorm comic book series that blends espionage, crime noir, and superhero elements, following an undercover agent embedded within a powerful criminal organization.
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C.
Savage Sleep
Savage Sleep is a mid-20th-century novel by Millen Brand that explores psychological themes through its portrayal of mental illness and institutional life.
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D.
No Sleeep
"No Sleeep" is a sultry, mid-tempo R&B single by Janet Jackson, released in 2015 as the lead track from her album "Unbreakable."
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E.
Sleepers
Sleepers is a 1996 crime drama film directed by Barry Levinson, based on Lorenzo Carcaterra’s book about four childhood friends whose lives are forever changed by a tragic prank and subsequent abuse in a juvenile detention center.
- 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: Light Sleeper Target entity description: Light Sleeper is a 1992 neo-noir drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader, following a drug courier in New York City undergoing a moral and existential crisis.
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A.
Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 science-fiction comedy film by Woody Allen that satirizes futuristic society through the misadventures of a man who wakes up 200 years after being cryogenically frozen.
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B.
Sleeper
Sleeper is a critically acclaimed WildStorm comic book series that blends espionage, crime noir, and superhero elements, following an undercover agent embedded within a powerful criminal organization.
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C.
Savage Sleep
Savage Sleep is a mid-20th-century novel by Millen Brand that explores psychological themes through its portrayal of mental illness and institutional life.
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D.
No Sleeep
"No Sleeep" is a sultry, mid-tempo R&B single by Janet Jackson, released in 2015 as the lead track from her album "Unbreakable."
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E.
Sleepers
Sleepers is a 1996 crime drama film directed by Barry Levinson, based on Lorenzo Carcaterra’s book about four childhood friends whose lives are forever changed by a tragic prank and subsequent abuse in a juvenile detention center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| characterNameOfProtagonist | John LeTour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Edward Lachman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Paul Schrader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Fine Line Features NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Kristina Boden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresTopic |
drug trade
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | R ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | drug courier ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Michael Been
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Call NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | character study ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaboration between Paul Schrader and Willem Dafoe ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfCareerOf | Paul Schrader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysProtagonist | Willem Dafoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posterTagline | He was a good man in a bad business. ⓘ |
| producer | Linda Reisman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1992-08-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenplayType | original screenplay ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Schrader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| stars |
Dana Delany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Clennon NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Beth Hurt NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Rockwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Sarandon NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Garber NERFINISHED ⓘ Willem Dafoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
existential crisis
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moral crisis ⓘ |
| writer | Paul Schrader 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: Light Sleeper Description of subject: Light Sleeper is a 1992 neo-noir drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader, following a drug courier in New York City undergoing a moral and existential crisis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.