Closer (director’s cut music video)
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"Closer (director’s cut music video)" is the uncensored, visually provocative version of Nine Inch Nails’ iconic 1994 music video, renowned for its disturbing surreal imagery and controversial religious and sexual symbolism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Closer (director’s cut music video) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6262224 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Closer (director’s cut music video) Context triple: [Mark Romanek, notableWork, Closer (director’s cut music video)]
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Closer
Closer is a 2004 romantic drama film, directed by Mike Nichols and based on Patrick Marber’s play, that explores the complex, often brutal dynamics of modern relationships through the intertwined lives of four Londoners.
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B.
Closer
"Closer" is a moody, atmospheric rock song by American band Kings of Leon, known for its haunting guitar riffs and introspective lyrics.
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C.
Closer
"Closer" is a 2016 EDM-pop hit by The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey that became a global chart-topping single and one of the duo's signature songs.
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D.
Closer
Closer is a track by the progressive metal band Evolver, likely featured as a component of one of their albums or releases.
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E.
Close-Up
Close-Up is a critically acclaimed 1990 Iranian docufiction film by Abbas Kiarostami that blends documentary and narrative techniques to explore identity, truth, and the nature of cinema.
- 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: Closer (director’s cut music video) Target entity description: "Closer (director’s cut music video)" is the uncensored, visually provocative version of Nine Inch Nails’ iconic 1994 music video, renowned for its disturbing surreal imagery and controversial religious and sexual symbolism.
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A.
Closer
Closer is a 2004 romantic drama film, directed by Mike Nichols and based on Patrick Marber’s play, that explores the complex, often brutal dynamics of modern relationships through the intertwined lives of four Londoners.
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B.
Closer
"Closer" is a moody, atmospheric rock song by American band Kings of Leon, known for its haunting guitar riffs and introspective lyrics.
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C.
Closer
"Closer" is a 2016 EDM-pop hit by The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey that became a global chart-topping single and one of the duo's signature songs.
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D.
Closer
Closer is a track by the progressive metal band Evolver, likely featured as a component of one of their albums or releases.
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E.
Close-Up
Close-Up is a critically acclaimed 1990 Iranian docufiction film by Abbas Kiarostami that blends documentary and narrative techniques to explore identity, truth, and the nature of cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
director’s cut
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music video ⓘ |
| artist | Nine Inch Nails NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Nine Inch Nails NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAlbum | The Downward Spiral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnSong | Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameraFormat | film ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | uncensored version ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| containsSymbolism |
Christian religious imagery
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animal imagery ⓘ medical and scientific apparatus ⓘ sadomasochistic themes ⓘ sexual fetish imagery ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Mark Romanek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
home video release
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online video release ⓘ television-banned version ⓘ |
| era | 1990s ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental music video
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industrial rock music video ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of the most controversial mainstream music videos of the 1990s ⓘ |
| hasVersion | censored broadcast version of Closer music video ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
fetish photography
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religious iconography ⓘ surrealist art ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadPerformer | Trent Reznor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial religious symbolism
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disturbing surreal imagery ⓘ sexual imagery ⓘ |
| partOf | Nine Inch Nails video catalog ⓘ |
| performer | Nine Inch Nails NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Interscope Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationToOtherVersion | extended and uncensored cut of the original Closer music video ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
body horror
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religion ⓘ sexuality ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| title | Closer (director’s cut) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
provocative
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surreal ⓘ |
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: Closer (director’s cut music video) Description of subject: "Closer (director’s cut music video)" is the uncensored, visually provocative version of Nine Inch Nails’ iconic 1994 music video, renowned for its disturbing surreal imagery and controversial religious and sexual symbolism.
Referenced by (1)
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