Time Bandits
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Time Bandits canonical | 27 |
| Time Bandits (1981 film) | 3 |
| Time Bandits (film) | 1 |
| Time Bandits universe | 1 |
| the Time Bandits | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T619775 — 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: Time Bandits Context triple: [Terry Gilliam, notableWork, Time Bandits]
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A.
Trading Places
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
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B.
Three Amigos
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as out-of-work silent film actors mistaken for real heroes in a Mexican village.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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E.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. is a 1982 action-comedy film that helped launch Eddie Murphy’s movie career, pairing him with Nick Nolte as an unlikely duo tracking down criminals over a two-day span.
- 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: Time Bandits Target entity description: 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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A.
Trading Places
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
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B.
Three Amigos
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as out-of-work silent film actors mistaken for real heroes in a Mexican village.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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E.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. is a 1982 action-comedy film that helped launch Eddie Murphy’s movie career, pairing him with Nick Nolte as an unlikely duo tracking down criminals over a two-day span.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Time Bandits Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Time Bandits (film)
subject surface form:
Napoleon (Time Bandits)
subject surface form:
Napoleon (Time Bandits)
this entity surface form:
Time Bandits universe
subject surface form:
Napoleon (Time Bandits)
this entity surface form:
Time Bandits (1981 film)
this entity surface form:
Time Bandits (1981 film)
subject surface form:
Kevin
this entity surface form:
the Time Bandits
this entity surface form:
Time Bandits (1981 film)
subject surface form:
Terry Gilliam’s loose trilogy of imagination
subject surface form:
Brazil (1985 film)