Brooklyn's Finest
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Brooklyn's Finest is a 2009 crime drama film that interweaves the stories of three troubled New York City police officers whose lives collide during a dangerous operation in Brooklyn.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brooklyn's Finest canonical | 4 |
| Brooklyn’s Finest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6227686 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Brooklyn's Finest Context triple: [Marcelo Zarvos, notableWork, Brooklyn's Finest]
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A.
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest is a track by Jay-Z from his debut album that features The Notorious B.I.G. and is known for its gritty lyrical back-and-forth between the two Brooklyn rappers.
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New York's Boldest
"New York's Boldest" is the motto and nickname for the New York City Department of Correction, highlighting the courage and professionalism of its officers.
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N.Y.P.D.
N.Y.P.D. is an American police procedural television series from the late 1960s that followed the cases of New York City detectives.
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D.
Chrystie Street Connection
The Chrystie Street Connection is a New York City Subway infrastructure project completed in the 1960s that linked the IND and BMT divisions in Lower Manhattan, enabling more flexible routing such as the current M train service.
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E.
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 coming-of-age crime drama film set in 1960s New York, directed by and starring Robert De Niro and based on Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play.
- 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: Brooklyn's Finest Target entity description: Brooklyn's Finest is a 2009 crime drama film that interweaves the stories of three troubled New York City police officers whose lives collide during a dangerous operation in Brooklyn.
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A.
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest is a track by Jay-Z from his debut album that features The Notorious B.I.G. and is known for its gritty lyrical back-and-forth between the two Brooklyn rappers.
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B.
New York's Boldest
"New York's Boldest" is the motto and nickname for the New York City Department of Correction, highlighting the courage and professionalism of its officers.
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C.
N.Y.P.D.
N.Y.P.D. is an American police procedural television series from the late 1960s that followed the cases of New York City detectives.
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D.
Chrystie Street Connection
The Chrystie Street Connection is a New York City Subway infrastructure project completed in the 1960s that linked the IND and BMT divisions in Lower Manhattan, enabling more flexible routing such as the current M train service.
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E.
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 coming-of-age crime drama film set in 1960s New York, directed by and starring Robert De Niro and based on Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Patrick Murguia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Marcelo Zarvos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Antoine Fuqua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Overture Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Barbara Tulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| follows | three New York City police officers ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
crime drama ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Clarence "Tango" Butler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie Dugan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sal Procida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Interweaves the stories of three troubled New York City police officers whose lives collide during a dangerous operation in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| portrays |
moral ambiguity in law enforcement
ⓘ
police corruption ⓘ |
| producer |
Avi Lerner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Furla NERFINISHED ⓘ John Langley NERFINISHED ⓘ Randall Emmett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Langley Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Millennium Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUnitedStates | 2010-03-05 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 132 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| stars |
Don Cheadle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ellen Barkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethan Hawke NERFINISHED ⓘ Lili Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Kenneth Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Gere NERFINISHED ⓘ Shannon Kane NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent D'Onofrio NERFINISHED ⓘ Wesley Snipes NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Patton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereAt | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Michael C. Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
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Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Brooklyn’s Finest