Born to Kill
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Born to Kill is an alternate title for the 1974 American drama film "Cockfighter," directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates as a man obsessed with becoming the top cockfighting trainer in the American South.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Born to Kill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6292650 — 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: Born to Kill Context triple: [Cockfighter, alternateTitle, Born to Kill]
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A.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
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B.
Killer Love
Killer Love is the first solo studio album by American singer Nicole Scherzinger, showcasing her transition from Pussycat Dolls frontwoman to solo pop and R&B artist.
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C.
Killer’s Kiss
Killer’s Kiss is a 1955 low-budget film noir drama and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early feature films, noted for its gritty New York City setting and experimental visual style.
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D.
Killers
Killers is Iron Maiden’s second studio album, known for its raw, aggressive sound and for solidifying the band’s early heavy metal style.
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E.
Killer Women
Killer Women is an American crime drama television series that follows a tough female Texas Ranger as she investigates cases involving women accused of murder.
- 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: Born to Kill Target entity description: Born to Kill is an alternate title for the 1974 American drama film "Cockfighter," directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates as a man obsessed with becoming the top cockfighting trainer in the American South.
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A.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
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B.
Killer Love
Killer Love is the first solo studio album by American singer Nicole Scherzinger, showcasing her transition from Pussycat Dolls frontwoman to solo pop and R&B artist.
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C.
Killer’s Kiss
Killer’s Kiss is a 1955 low-budget film noir drama and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early feature films, noted for its gritty New York City setting and experimental visual style.
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D.
Killers
Killers is Iron Maiden’s second studio album, known for its raw, aggressive sound and for solidifying the band’s early heavy metal style.
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E.
Killer Women
Killer Women is an American crime drama television series that follows a tough female Texas Ranger as she investigates cases involving women accused of murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alternateTitleOf | Cockfighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel "Cockfighter" by Charles Willeford ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Néstor Almendros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Monte Hellman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New World Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Murray Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSport | cockfighting ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Florida
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
competition
ⓘ
obsession ⓘ rural Southern culture ⓘ |
| isAlsoKnownAs | Cockfighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterName | Frank Mansfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterPortrayedBy | Warren Oates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | cockfighting trainer ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Franks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotFocus | obsession with becoming the top cockfighting trainer ⓘ |
| producer | Roger Corman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 83 ⓘ |
| starring | Warren Oates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Born to Kill Description of subject: Born to Kill is an alternate title for the 1974 American drama film "Cockfighter," directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates as a man obsessed with becoming the top cockfighting trainer in the American South.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.