The Sisters Brothers
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The Sisters Brothers is a darkly comic Western film, based on Patrick deWitt’s novel, that follows two assassin brothers on a violent, offbeat journey in the 1850s American West.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sisters Brothers canonical | 7 |
| The Sisters Brothers (film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7832491 — 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 Sisters Brothers Context triple: [John C. Reilly, notableWork, The Sisters Brothers]
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A.
Under the Gun
"Under the Gun" is a punk rock song by Marky Ramone and the Intruders, showcasing the high-energy style associated with the former Ramones drummer.
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B.
Two Gunslingers
"Two Gunslingers" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their 1991 album *Into the Great Wide Open*, noted for its reflective lyrics about conflict and personal change.
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C.
A Gunfight
A Gunfight is a 1971 Western film starring Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash that explores aging gunfighters facing one last deadly showdown staged as a public spectacle.
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D.
The Outlaw
The Outlaw is a 1943 Western film famous for its controversial sexual content and for helping launch the career of actress Jane Russell.
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E.
The Outlaw
"The Outlaw" is a poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects his early exploration of rural life, marginal figures, and moral ambiguity.
- 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 Sisters Brothers Target entity description: The Sisters Brothers is a darkly comic Western film, based on Patrick deWitt’s novel, that follows two assassin brothers on a violent, offbeat journey in the 1850s American West.
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A.
Under the Gun
"Under the Gun" is a punk rock song by Marky Ramone and the Intruders, showcasing the high-energy style associated with the former Ramones drummer.
-
B.
Two Gunslingers
"Two Gunslingers" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their 1991 album *Into the Great Wide Open*, noted for its reflective lyrics about conflict and personal change.
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C.
A Gunfight
A Gunfight is a 1971 Western film starring Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash that explores aging gunfighters facing one last deadly showdown staged as a public spectacle.
-
D.
The Outlaw
The Outlaw is a 1943 Western film famous for its controversial sexual content and for helping launch the career of actress Jane Russell.
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E.
The Outlaw
"The Outlaw" is a poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects his early exploration of rural life, marginal figures, and moral ambiguity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Sisters Brothers (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Patrick deWitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Sisters Brothers (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Benoît Debie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Alexandre Desplat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
ⓘ
Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ Spain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jacques Audiard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Annapurna Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mars Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Juliette Welfling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
ⓘ
black comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
brotherhood
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greed ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Charlie Sisters
NERFINISHED
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Eli Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ Hermann Kermit Warm NERFINISHED ⓘ John Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | two assassin brothers on a journey ⓘ |
| novelPublicationYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Carol Kane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jake Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Joaquin Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ John C. Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Root NERFINISHED ⓘ Riz Ahmed NERFINISHED ⓘ Rutger Hauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 2018-09-02 ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 75th Venice International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Allison Dickey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gregoire Sorlat NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Audiard NERFINISHED ⓘ John C. Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael De Luca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 121 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jacques Audiard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Bidegain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | American West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1850s ⓘ |
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 Sisters Brothers Description of subject: The Sisters Brothers is a darkly comic Western film, based on Patrick deWitt’s novel, that follows two assassin brothers on a violent, offbeat journey in the 1850s American West.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Sisters Brothers (film)
subject surface form:
The Sisters Brothers
this entity surface form:
The Sisters Brothers (film)