The Lookout
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The Lookout is a 2007 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Scott Frank, following a brain-damaged former high school athlete who becomes entangled in a bank heist.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lookout canonical | 5 |
| The Lookout (2007 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6139954 — 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 Lookout Context triple: [Scott Frank, notableWork, The Lookout]
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A.
The Outing
The Outing is a short story by James Baldwin that explores themes of religion, sexuality, and identity among a group of Black churchgoers on a river excursion.
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B.
Vantage Point
Vantage Point is a 2008 political action-thriller film, starring Matthew Fox among an ensemble cast, that reconstructs an assassination attempt on the U.S. President from multiple characters’ perspectives.
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C.
The Outpost
The Outpost is a 2020 war drama film depicting the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, known for its intense combat realism and an ensemble cast including Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom.
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D.
The Ravine
The Ravine is a secluded, woodland gorge in Central Park featuring winding paths, a stream, and rustic bridges that evoke a natural forest landscape.
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E.
The Eyrie
The Eyrie is a lofty, impregnable castle of House Arryn perched high in the Mountains of the Moon in the world of Westeros from "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones."
- 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 Lookout Target entity description: The Lookout is a 2007 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Scott Frank, following a brain-damaged former high school athlete who becomes entangled in a bank heist.
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A.
The Outing
The Outing is a short story by James Baldwin that explores themes of religion, sexuality, and identity among a group of Black churchgoers on a river excursion.
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B.
Vantage Point
Vantage Point is a 2008 political action-thriller film, starring Matthew Fox among an ensemble cast, that reconstructs an assassination attempt on the U.S. President from multiple characters’ perspectives.
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C.
The Outpost
The Outpost is a 2020 war drama film depicting the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan, known for its intense combat realism and an ensemble cast including Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom.
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D.
The Ravine
The Ravine is a secluded, woodland gorge in Central Park featuring winding paths, a stream, and rustic bridges that evoke a natural forest landscape.
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E.
The Eyrie
The Eyrie is a lofty, impregnable castle of House Arryn perched high in the Mountains of the Moon in the world of Westeros from "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| characterOccupation | former high school athlete ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Alar Kivilo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Scott Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jill Savitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime thriller
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Alberta Watson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alex Borstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Bruce McGill NERFINISHED ⓘ Carla Gugino NERFINISHED ⓘ Isla Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Gordon-Levitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Goode NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergio Di Zio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Chris Pratt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of memory impairment and disability in a crime narrative ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A brain-damaged former high school athlete becomes involved in a bank heist. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Miramax Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistCondition | brain damage ⓘ |
| protagonistInvolvedIn | bank heist ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| screenwritingDebutOf | Scott Frank as director ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Scott Frank 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 Lookout Description of subject: The Lookout is a 2007 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Scott Frank, following a brain-damaged former high school athlete who becomes entangled in a bank heist.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Lookout (2007 film)