The Running Man
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The Running Man is a 1987 dystopian action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a framed cop forced to participate in a deadly televised game show in a totalitarian future.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Running Man canonical | 7 |
| Running Man (score) | 1 |
| The Running Man (1987 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8577981 — 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 Running Man Context triple: [Richard Dawson, appearedIn, The Running Man]
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A.
Midnight Runner
Midnight Runner is a fast-paced thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives, international intrigue, and high-stakes action in the author’s signature suspenseful style.
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B.
Rollerball
Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian science fiction sports film depicting a violent future game used by corporations to control society.
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C.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a mid-distance sled dog race event held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, often serving as a companion race to the longer UP 200.
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D.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 action-comedy film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter transporting an accountant across the country while being pursued by the FBI and the mob.
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E.
Logan's Run
Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film set in a dystopian future where citizens are executed at age 30, following a "Sandman" who begins to question the system.
- 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 Running Man Target entity description: The Running Man is a 1987 dystopian action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a framed cop forced to participate in a deadly televised game show in a totalitarian future.
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A.
Midnight Runner
Midnight Runner is a fast-paced thriller novel by Jack Higgins that follows covert operatives, international intrigue, and high-stakes action in the author’s signature suspenseful style.
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B.
Rollerball
Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian science fiction sports film depicting a violent future game used by corporations to control society.
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C.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a mid-distance sled dog race event held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, often serving as a companion race to the longer UP 200.
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D.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 action-comedy film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter transporting an accountant across the country while being pursued by the FBI and the mob.
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E.
Logan's Run
Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film set in a dystopian future where citizens are executed at age 30, following a "Sandman" who begins to question the system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action film
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film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Running Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthorPseudonym | Richard Bachman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Amber Mendez
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ben Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ Damon Killian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Thomas Del Ruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Paul Michael Glaser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Tri-Star Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Mark Goldblatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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dystopian ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| leadActor | Arnold Schwarzenegger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadRoleName | Ben Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
authoritarianism
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media manipulation ⓘ reality television as spectacle ⓘ |
| musicBy | Harold Faltermeyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a lethal game show broadcast as mass entertainment ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980s American action cinema ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A framed police officer is forced to participate in a deadly televised game show in a totalitarian future society. ⓘ |
| producer | Tim Zinnemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Keith Barish Productions
NERFINISHED
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Taft Entertainment Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ratingMPAA | R ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1987-11-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 101 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Steven E. de Souza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInFuture | true ⓘ |
| setInTime | 2017 ⓘ |
| starring |
Arnold Schwarzenegger
NERFINISHED
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Dweezil Zappa NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesse Ventura NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Conchita Alonso NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Fleetwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Dawson NERFINISHED ⓘ Yaphet Kotto 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 Running Man Description of subject: The Running Man is a 1987 dystopian action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a framed cop forced to participate in a deadly televised game show in a totalitarian future.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Running Man (1987 film)
this entity surface form:
Running Man (score)