Piercing
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"Piercing" is a 2018 psychological horror film, based on Ryū Murakami’s novel, in which Christopher Abbott plays a man whose plan to commit the perfect murder unravels in darkly comic and disturbing ways.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Piercing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7026568 — 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: Piercing Context triple: [Christopher Abbott, notableWork, Piercing]
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A.
Tattoo
"Tattoo" is a 2002 German crime thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke, centered on a dark investigation involving a serial killer and tattooed skin.
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B.
Tattoo
"Tattoo" is a mid-2000s pop-R&B single by American singer Jordin Sparks that became one of her breakout hits following her American Idol win.
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C.
Needles and Pins
"Needles and Pins" is a well-known pop song, originally popularized in the 1960s and later famously covered by the Ramones on their album "Road to Ruin."
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D.
Scar
Scar is the cunning and power-hungry lion antagonist in Disney's animated film "The Lion King," known for plotting to overthrow his brother Mufasa and nephew Simba.
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E.
Scar
Scar is the ruthless Comanche chief who serves as the primary adversary in the classic Western film "The Searchers."
- 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: Piercing Target entity description: "Piercing" is a 2018 psychological horror film, based on Ryū Murakami’s novel, in which Christopher Abbott plays a man whose plan to commit the perfect murder unravels in darkly comic and disturbing ways.
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A.
Tattoo
"Tattoo" is a 2002 German crime thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke, centered on a dark investigation involving a serial killer and tattooed skin.
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B.
Tattoo
"Tattoo" is a mid-2000s pop-R&B single by American singer Jordin Sparks that became one of her breakout hits following her American Idol win.
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C.
Needles and Pins
"Needles and Pins" is a well-known pop song, originally popularized in the 1960s and later famously covered by the Ramones on their album "Road to Ruin."
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D.
Scar
Scar is the ruthless Comanche chief who serves as the primary adversary in the classic Western film "The Searchers."
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E.
Scar
Scar is the cunning and power-hungry lion antagonist in Disney's animated film "The Lion King," known for plotting to overthrow his brother Mufasa and nephew Simba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
psychological horror film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Piercing (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistPortrayedBy | Mia Wasikowska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Piercing ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Ryū Murakami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Christopher Abbott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dakota Lustick NERFINISHED ⓘ Laia Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Dizzia NERFINISHED ⓘ Mia Wasikowska NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Bond NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendell Pierce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Zak Mulligan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Nathan Halpern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Nicolas Pesce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Focus World
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Tina Hirsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalPremiere | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSection | Midnight section at Sundance Film Festival ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasPosterColorPalette | neon ⓘ |
| hasVisualStyle |
giallo-inspired
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stylized ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Christopher Abbott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mia Wasikowska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | planned murder ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | black comedy ⓘ |
| novelAuthor | Ryū Murakami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BorderLine Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Memento Films International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | businessman ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Christopher Abbott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 81 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nicolas Pesce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | hotel room ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseRegion | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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psychological trauma ⓘ sadomasochism ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone | darkly comic ⓘ |
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: Piercing Description of subject: "Piercing" is a 2018 psychological horror film, based on Ryū Murakami’s novel, in which Christopher Abbott plays a man whose plan to commit the perfect murder unravels in darkly comic and disturbing ways.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.