The Driver
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The Driver is a 1978 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill, centered on a taciturn, highly skilled getaway driver involved in a tense cat-and-mouse game with a relentless detective.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Driver canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8441867 — 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 Driver Context triple: [Walter Hill, notableWork, The Driver]
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A.
The Driver
The Driver is the laconic, unnamed street racer portrayed by James Taylor in the 1971 cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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B.
Stuber
Stuber is a 2019 action-comedy film about a mild-mannered rideshare driver who gets roped into helping a tough cop track down a criminal, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista.
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C.
Crank
Crank is a 2006 high-octane action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a poisoned hitman racing against time to stay alive.
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D.
The Mechanic
The Mechanic is a 1972 action thriller film starring Charles Bronson as a professional hitman who takes on an ambitious apprentice.
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E.
The Mechanic
The Mechanic is a laconic, skilled car tuner and driver who partners with the Driver in the 1971 road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
- 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 Driver Target entity description: The Driver is a 1978 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill, centered on a taciturn, highly skilled getaway driver involved in a tense cat-and-mouse game with a relentless detective.
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A.
The Driver
The Driver is the laconic, unnamed street racer portrayed by James Taylor in the 1971 cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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B.
Stuber
Stuber is a 2019 action-comedy film about a mild-mannered rideshare driver who gets roped into helping a tough cop track down a criminal, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista.
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C.
Crank
Crank is a 2006 high-octane action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a poisoned hitman racing against time to stay alive.
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D.
The Mechanic
The Mechanic is a 1972 action thriller film starring Charles Bronson as a professional hitman who takes on an ambitious apprentice.
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E.
The Mechanic
The Mechanic is a laconic, skilled car tuner and driver who partners with the Driver in the 1971 road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Philip H. Lathrop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| directedBy | Walter Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Walter Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
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20th Century Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tina Hirsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1970s American cinema ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California
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| genre |
crime
ⓘ
neo-noir ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
obsessive police pursuit
ⓘ
professional criminal code of ethics ⓘ |
| influenced |
Baby Driver
NERFINISHED
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Drive (2011 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
The Detective
NERFINISHED
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The Driver NERFINISHED ⓘ The Player NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Small NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | spare and minimalist ⓘ |
| notableFor |
minimalist dialogue
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stylized car chases ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A highly skilled, taciturn getaway driver becomes involved in a cat-and-mouse game with a relentless detective. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | getaway driver ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | taciturn ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978-06-28 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Walter Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| stars |
Bruce Dern
NERFINISHED
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Isabelle Adjani NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronee Blakley NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan O'Neal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Driver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Walter Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Walter Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Driver Description of subject: The Driver is a 1978 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill, centered on a taciturn, highly skilled getaway driver involved in a tense cat-and-mouse game with a relentless detective.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.