The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American crime drama film, based on George V. Higgins' novel, that follows a weary small-time gunrunner in Boston’s criminal underworld as he faces betrayal and desperation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7003469 — 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 Friends of Eddie Coyle Context triple: [Peter Boyle, notableWork, The Friends of Eddie Coyle]
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A.
The Bannerman Road gang
The Bannerman Road gang is the close-knit group of young companions and allies who assist Sarah Jane Smith in investigating alien activity and protecting Earth in the Doctor Who spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
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B.
The Racketeer
The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a wrongfully imprisoned lawyer who leverages inside knowledge of a federal judge’s murder to bargain for his freedom and revenge.
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C.
The Last Detail
The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film starring Jack Nicholson as a Navy sailor escorting a young offender to prison, noted for its sharp dialogue, anti-authoritarian tone, and Hal Ashby’s character-driven direction.
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D.
Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
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E.
The Devil’s Own
The Devil’s Own is a 1997 American thriller film starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, centered on an Irish Republican Army member hiding in the United States while plotting a weapons deal.
- 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 Friends of Eddie Coyle Target entity description: The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American crime drama film, based on George V. Higgins' novel, that follows a weary small-time gunrunner in Boston’s criminal underworld as he faces betrayal and desperation.
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A.
The Bannerman Road gang
The Bannerman Road gang is the close-knit group of young companions and allies who assist Sarah Jane Smith in investigating alien activity and protecting Earth in the Doctor Who spin-off series "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
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B.
The Racketeer
The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a wrongfully imprisoned lawyer who leverages inside knowledge of a federal judge’s murder to bargain for his freedom and revenge.
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C.
The Last Detail
The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film starring Jack Nicholson as a Navy sailor escorting a young offender to prison, noted for its sharp dialogue, anti-authoritarian tone, and Hal Ashby’s character-driven direction.
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D.
Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
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E.
The Devil’s Own
The Devil’s Own is a 1997 American thriller film starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, centered on an Irish Republican Army member hiding in the United States while plotting a weapons deal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | George V. Higgins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Friends of Eddie Coyle (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Victor J. Kemper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Peter Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Patricia Lewis Jaffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Boston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Eddie Coyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Friends of Eddie Coyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | small-time gunrunner ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dave Grusin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Boston criminal underworld ⓘ |
| notableFor | realistic depiction of low-level organized crime ⓘ |
| novelPublicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Paul Monash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1973-06-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
George V. Higgins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Monash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Boston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alex Rocco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mitchell Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Boyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Keats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
ⓘ
desperation ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 1970s ⓘ |
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 Friends of Eddie Coyle Description of subject: The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a 1973 American crime drama film, based on George V. Higgins' novel, that follows a weary small-time gunrunner in Boston’s criminal underworld as he faces betrayal and desperation.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.