The Cure
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The Cure is a 1995 American drama film about the friendship between two young boys, one of whom is living with AIDS, and their journey to find a cure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cure canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6540354 — 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 Cure Context triple: [Brad Renfro, notableWork, The Cure]
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A.
The Cure
The Cure is an English rock band formed in the late 1970s, renowned for their influential blend of post-punk, gothic rock, and pop sensibilities led by frontman Robert Smith.
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B.
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an influential English post-punk band formed in Liverpool in the late 1970s, known for their atmospheric sound and songs like "The Killing Moon."
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C.
The Verve
The Verve is an English alternative rock band best known for their 1997 hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and the critically acclaimed album "Urban Hymns."
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D.
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film that became a cult classic for its holiday-themed horror and graphic mining-town murders.
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E.
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine is an Irish-English alternative rock band renowned for pioneering the shoegaze genre with their dense, swirling guitar textures and ethereal vocals.
- 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 Cure Target entity description: The Cure is a 1995 American drama film about the friendship between two young boys, one of whom is living with AIDS, and their journey to find a cure.
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A.
The Cure
The Cure is an English rock band formed in the late 1970s, renowned for their influential blend of post-punk, gothic rock, and pop sensibilities led by frontman Robert Smith.
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B.
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen are an influential English post-punk band formed in Liverpool in the late 1970s, known for their atmospheric sound and songs like "The Killing Moon."
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C.
The Verve
The Verve is an English alternative rock band best known for their 1997 hit "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and the critically acclaimed album "Urban Hymns."
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D.
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film that became a cult classic for its holiday-themed horror and graphic mining-town murders.
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E.
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine is an Irish-English alternative rock band renowned for pioneering the shoegaze genre with their dense, swirling guitar textures and ethereal vocals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ralf D. Bode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Peter Horton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discussesTheme |
AIDS
ⓘ
childhood ⓘ friendship ⓘ prejudice ⓘ terminal illness ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Lorenzo De Stefano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Jodie Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterWithCondition | AIDS ⓘ |
| filmingFormat | live-action ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasAgeRatingSystem | MPAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternateTitle | The Cure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHumanCast | true ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistAgeGroup | children ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dexter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Erik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dave Grusin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | journey to find a cure for AIDS ⓘ |
| narrativeGenre | coming-of-age drama ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film follows the friendship between two young boys, one of whom has AIDS, as they embark on a journey to find a cure. ⓘ |
| producer |
Allen Blum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Eisner NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Burg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Egg Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Robert Kuhn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Annabella Sciorra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brad Renfro NERFINISHED ⓘ Bruce Davison NERFINISHED ⓘ Diana Scarwid NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Mazzello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1990s ⓘ |
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: The Cure Description of subject: The Cure is a 1995 American drama film about the friendship between two young boys, one of whom is living with AIDS, and their journey to find a cure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.