Clue
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Clue is a 1985 comedy-mystery film, directed by Jonathan Lynn, that adapts the classic murder-mystery board game into a farcical whodunit with multiple endings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clue canonical | 11 |
| Clue (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6629803 — 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: Clue Context triple: [Jonathan Lynn, notableWork, Clue]
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A.
Cluedo (UK game show)
Cluedo (UK game show) is a British television murder-mystery game series, based on the classic board game, in which celebrity guests deduce the culprit, weapon, and location of a staged crime.
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B.
Guess Who
Guess Who is a song by the American rock band Alabama Shakes from their critically acclaimed album "Sound & Color."
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C.
de La Clue-Sabran
De La Clue-Sabran is the aristocratic French family name of Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran, an 18th-century French naval officer and admiral.
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D.
Mastermind
Mastermind is a studio album by American rapper Rick Ross, known for its lavish production and themes of wealth, power, and street life.
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E.
Murder Party
Murder Party is a 2007 low-budget horror-comedy film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier about a man who unwittingly attends a Halloween party hosted by deranged art students who plan to kill him as part of an art project.
- 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: Clue Target entity description: Clue is a 1985 comedy-mystery film, directed by Jonathan Lynn, that adapts the classic murder-mystery board game into a farcical whodunit with multiple endings.
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A.
Cluedo (UK game show)
Cluedo (UK game show) is a British television murder-mystery game series, based on the classic board game, in which celebrity guests deduce the culprit, weapon, and location of a staged crime.
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B.
Guess Who
Guess Who is a song by the American rock band Alabama Shakes from their critically acclaimed album "Sound & Color."
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C.
de La Clue-Sabran
De La Clue-Sabran is the aristocratic French family name of Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran, an 18th-century French naval officer and admiral.
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D.
Mastermind
Mastermind is a studio album by American rapper Rick Ross, known for its lavish production and themes of wealth, power, and street life.
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E.
Murder Party
Murder Party is a 2007 low-budget horror-comedy film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier about a man who unwittingly attends a Halloween party hosted by deranged art students who plan to kill him as part of an art project.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy mystery film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Clue (board game)
NERFINISHED
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Cluedo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Colonel Mustard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miss Scarlet NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Boddy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. White NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor Plum NERFINISHED ⓘ Wadsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Yvette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Victor J. Kemper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Jonathan Lynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | David Bretherton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature | multiple endings ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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comedy ⓘ mystery ⓘ whodunit ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Christopher Lloyd
NERFINISHED
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Colleen Camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Eileen Brennan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Ving NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesley Ann Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeline Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Mull NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael McKean NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Curry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasHomeMediaRelease |
Blu-ray
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DVD ⓘ VHS ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
New England
NERFINISHED
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mansion ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | murder-mystery board game ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | whodunit mystery ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
John Landis
NERFINISHED
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Jonathan Lynn 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: Clue Description of subject: Clue is a 1985 comedy-mystery film, directed by Jonathan Lynn, that adapts the classic murder-mystery board game into a farcical whodunit with multiple endings.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cluedo (TV series)
this entity surface form:
Clue (film)