The Sting II
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The Sting II is a 1983 American comedy–crime film that serves as a sequel to the Oscar-winning classic The Sting, following new con artists in another elaborate grifting caper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sting II canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8308993 — 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 Sting II Context triple: [David S. Ward, notableWork, The Sting II]
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A.
The Sting
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, renowned for its intricate con-artist plot, period 1930s setting, and multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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B.
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam that follows a young boy who joins a band of time-traveling dwarfs on a surreal journey through history.
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C.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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D.
Blow Away
"Blow Away" is a song featured on the Grateful Dead's album "Built to Last."
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E.
Thieves Highway
Thieves Highway is a 1949 film noir crime drama directed by Jules Dassin that follows the dangerous world of San Francisco produce truckers entangled in corruption and betrayal.
- 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 Sting II Target entity description: The Sting II is a 1983 American comedy–crime film that serves as a sequel to the Oscar-winning classic The Sting, following new con artists in another elaborate grifting caper.
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A.
The Sting
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, renowned for its intricate con-artist plot, period 1930s setting, and multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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B.
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam that follows a young boy who joins a band of time-traveling dwarfs on a surreal journey through history.
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C.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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D.
Blow Away
"Blow Away" is a song featured on the Grateful Dead's album "Built to Last."
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E.
Thieves Highway
Thieves Highway is a 1949 film noir crime drama directed by Jules Dassin that follows the dangerous world of San Francisco produce truckers entangled in corruption and betrayal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Bill Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jeremy Paul Kagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | David Bretherton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | new con artists ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
comedy–crime ⓘ crime ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | PG ⓘ |
| hasSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | feature film ⓘ |
| isSequelTo | The Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme | grifting and deception ⓘ |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | confidence tricks and elaborate cons ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a sequel to the Oscar-winning film The Sting ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Sting film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | centers on an elaborate grifting caper by a new group of con artists ⓘ |
| predecessor | The Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jennings Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David S. Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| stars |
Jackie Gleason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Karl Malden NERFINISHED ⓘ Mac Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Teri Garr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Sting II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Sting II Description of subject: The Sting II is a 1983 American comedy–crime film that serves as a sequel to the Oscar-winning classic The Sting, following new con artists in another elaborate grifting caper.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.