The Terminal
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The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Tom Hanks plays a man stranded for months in an airport terminal due to a bureaucratic immigration snafu.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Terminal canonical | 17 |
| "The Terminal" | 2 |
| The Terminal (2004 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500287 — 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 Terminal Context triple: [Tom Hanks, notableWork, The Terminal]
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A.
The Walk
The Walk is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis that dramatizes high-wire artist Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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B.
Red Eye
Red Eye is a 2005 psychological thriller film in which Cillian Murphy plays a charming but menacing terrorist who coerces a hotel manager during a tense overnight flight.
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C.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 science-fiction romantic thriller film about a politician who discovers a mysterious organization that controls fate, co-starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
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D.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 is a passenger terminal at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, serving specific airlines and routes within the airport’s operations.
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E.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 is one of the passenger terminals at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, serving specific international and regional flights.
- 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 Terminal Target entity description: The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Tom Hanks plays a man stranded for months in an airport terminal due to a bureaucratic immigration snafu.
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A.
The Walk
The Walk is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis that dramatizes high-wire artist Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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B.
Red Eye
Red Eye is a 2005 psychological thriller film in which Cillian Murphy plays a charming but menacing terrorist who coerces a hotel manager during a tense overnight flight.
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C.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 science-fiction romantic thriller film about a politician who discovers a mysterious organization that controls fate, co-starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
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D.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 is the newer, modern passenger terminal at Mexico City International Airport, serving as a major hub for several domestic and international airlines.
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E.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 is a passenger terminal at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, serving specific airlines and routes within the airport’s operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| award | BMI Film Music Award for John Williams ⓘ |
| basedOn | inspired by the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | approximately $219 million ⓘ |
| budget | approximately $60 million ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Tom Hanks
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surface form:
Viktor Navorski – Tom Hanks
|
| cinematographyBy | Janusz Kamiński ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
DreamWorks Pictures
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Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
DreamWorks Pictures
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surface form:
DreamWorks Pictures – North America
Universal Pictures – international ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael Kahn ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Montréal–Mirabel International Airport (terminal set) ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
bureaucracy
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hope ⓘ human connection ⓘ immigration ⓘ isolation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Viktor Navorski ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Williams ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | bureaucratic complications in immigration and customs ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man from the fictional country Krakozhia becomes stranded in a New York airport terminal when his homeland undergoes a coup and his passport is no longer valid. ⓘ |
| producer |
Laurie MacDonald
ⓘ
Steven Spielberg ⓘ Walter F. Parkes ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Amblin Entertainment
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DreamWorks Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | June 18, 2004 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 128 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Andrew Niccol
ⓘ
Jeff Nathanson ⓘ Sacha Gervasi ⓘ |
| setting |
John F. Kennedy International Airport
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surface form:
John F. Kennedy International Airport (fictionalized terminal)
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| starring |
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Chi McBride ⓘ Diego Luna ⓘ Kumar Pallana ⓘ Stanley Tucci ⓘ Tom Hanks ⓘ Zoe Saldana ⓘ |
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: The Terminal Description of subject: The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Tom Hanks plays a man stranded for months in an airport terminal due to a bureaucratic immigration snafu.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"The Terminal"
this entity surface form:
"The Terminal"
this entity surface form:
The Terminal (2004 film)