Hobo with a Shotgun
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Hobo with a Shotgun is a 2011 Canadian exploitation-style action film starring Rutger Hauer as a vigilante drifter waging violent justice in a corrupt city.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hobo with a Shotgun canonical | 1 |
| Hobo with a Shotgun (trailer) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9449595 — 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: Hobo with a Shotgun Context triple: [Rutger Hauer, notableWork, Hobo with a Shotgun]
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A.
Bucky Done Gun
"Bucky Done Gun" is a breakout single by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A. that blends hip hop, grime, and Brazilian baile funk, helping establish her distinctive global, politically charged sound.
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B.
The Big Nowhere
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C.
Gun for a Coward
Gun for a Coward is a 1957 Western film starring Fred MacMurray that explores themes of family conflict and personal bravery on the American frontier.
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D.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
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E.
The Motherfucker with the Hat
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- 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: Hobo with a Shotgun Target entity description: Hobo with a Shotgun is a 2011 Canadian exploitation-style action film starring Rutger Hauer as a vigilante drifter waging violent justice in a corrupt city.
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A.
Bucky Done Gun
"Bucky Done Gun" is a breakout single by British-Sri Lankan artist M.I.A. that blends hip hop, grime, and Brazilian baile funk, helping establish her distinctive global, politically charged sound.
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B.
The Big Nowhere
The Big Nowhere is a dark, complex crime novel by James Ellroy set in 1950s Los Angeles, blending police procedural, political conspiracy, and noir elements.
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C.
Gun for a Coward
Gun for a Coward is a 1957 Western film starring Fred MacMurray that explores themes of family conflict and personal bravery on the American frontier.
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D.
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 Western comedy-drama film that blends offbeat humor and elegiac themes in telling the story of a desert-stranded prospector who builds a way station around a discovered water source.
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E.
The Motherfucker with the Hat
The Motherfucker with the Hat is a dark comedy stage play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores addiction, love, and loyalty among working-class New Yorkers through sharp, profane dialogue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian film
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action film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hobo with a Shotgun (2007 short film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Karim Hussain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| director | Jason Eisener NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Magnet Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jason Eisener NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Halifax, Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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crime ⓘ exploitation ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | color ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
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revenge ⓘ urban decay ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.hobowithashotgun.com ⓘ |
| mainActorForCharacter | Rutger Hauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | hobo ⓘ |
| musicBy | Adam Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
graphic violence
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grindhouse aesthetic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originatedAs | fake trailer ⓘ |
| partOf | Grindhouse trailer contest legacy ⓘ |
| posterTagline | Delivering justice one shell at a time ⓘ |
| producer |
Niv Fichman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rob Cotterill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Whizbang Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yer Dead Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ratingMPAA | Not Rated ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2011-03-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 86 ⓘ |
| setting | corrupt city ⓘ |
| soundMix | Dolby Digital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Brian Downey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gregory Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Molly Dunsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Rutger Hauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Jason Eisener
NERFINISHED
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John Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Cotterill 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: Hobo with a Shotgun Description of subject: Hobo with a Shotgun is a 2011 Canadian exploitation-style action film starring Rutger Hauer as a vigilante drifter waging violent justice in a corrupt city.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hobo with a Shotgun (trailer)