Secretary
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"Secretary" is a 2002 independent romantic drama film known for its unconventional portrayal of a BDSM relationship between a lawyer and his secretary.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Secretary canonical | 2 |
| Secretary (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8002344 — 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: Secretary Context triple: [Maggie Gyllenhaal, notableWork, Secretary]
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A.
Secretary
A secretary is an administrative professional responsible for managing correspondence, scheduling, records, and other organizational tasks to support individuals or offices.
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B.
Secretary Baker
Secretary Baker is the honorific title used for Newton Baker, who served as the U.S. Secretary of War during World War I.
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C.
State Secretary
A State Secretary is a senior government official who typically serves as a deputy to a minister, overseeing specific policy areas within a ministry.
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D.
Cabinet Secretary
A Cabinet Secretary is a senior government minister responsible for leading a major department or policy area within the executive branch.
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E.
Secretary General
The Secretary General is the chief administrative officer and leading representative of an international organization, responsible for overseeing its operations and implementing its policies.
- 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: Secretary Target entity description: "Secretary" is a 2002 independent romantic drama film known for its unconventional portrayal of a BDSM relationship between a lawyer and his secretary.
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A.
Secretary
A secretary is an administrative professional responsible for managing correspondence, scheduling, records, and other organizational tasks to support individuals or offices.
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B.
Secretary Baker
Secretary Baker is the honorific title used for Newton Baker, who served as the U.S. Secretary of War during World War I.
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C.
State Secretary
A State Secretary is a senior government official who typically serves as a deputy to a minister, overseeing specific policy areas within a ministry.
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D.
Cabinet Secretary
A Cabinet Secretary is a senior government minister responsible for leading a major department or policy area within the executive branch.
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E.
Secretary General
The Secretary General is the chief administrative officer and leading representative of an international organization, responsible for overseeing its operations and implementing its policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| author | Mary Gaitskill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Special Jury Prize for Originality (Sundance Film Festival) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Secretary (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
James Spader
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeremy Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesley Ann Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Bauchau NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen McHattie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Steven Fierberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Steven Shainberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Lions Gate Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tara Timpone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFestival | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
BDSM film
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasOccupationOfCharacter |
lawyer
ⓘ
secretary ⓘ |
| hasSetting | law office ⓘ |
| leadPerformanceBy | Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
E. Edward Grey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lee Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
power dynamics
ⓘ
self-acceptance ⓘ sexual exploration ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Angelo Badalamenti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
BDSM relationship
ⓘ
dominance and submission ⓘ romantic relationship ⓘ |
| notableFor | unconventional portrayal of BDSM relationship ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
James Spader
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Amy Hobby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Shainberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Slough Pond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2002-01-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 111 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Erin Cressida Wilson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Shainberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
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: Secretary Description of subject: "Secretary" is a 2002 independent romantic drama film known for its unconventional portrayal of a BDSM relationship between a lawyer and his secretary.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Secretary (score)