The Spirit (television film)
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The Spirit (television film) is a 1987 made-for-television superhero movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic comic strip about a masked crimefighter in Central City.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spirit (2008 film) | 1 |
| The Spirit (television film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9802672 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Spirit (television film) Context triple: [Michael Uslan, notableWork, The Spirit (television film)]
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A.
The Spirit
The Spirit is a mysterious, exalted being—often understood as the angel Gabriel—who descends by God’s command during the Night of Decree in Islamic belief.
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B.
The Spirit
The Spirit is a 2008 neo-noir superhero film adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic comic strip, directed by Frank Miller and known for its stylized visuals and pulpy crime-fantasy tone.
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C.
The Spirit (character)
The Spirit is a masked crime-fighting vigilante from Will Eisner's classic comic series, known for battling criminals in the gritty, noir-inspired Central City.
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D.
Spirit in Motion
Spirit in Motion is the inspirational motto of the Paralympic Games, expressing the energy, courage, and determination of Paralympic athletes.
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E.
Meeting of the Spirits
"Meeting of the Spirits" is a seminal jazz fusion composition by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, showcasing their virtuosic blend of rock intensity, complex rhythms, and Eastern-influenced harmonies.
- 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 Spirit (television film) Target entity description: The Spirit (television film) is a 1987 made-for-television superhero movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic comic strip about a masked crimefighter in Central City.
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A.
The Spirit
The Spirit is a mysterious, exalted being—often understood as the angel Gabriel—who descends by God’s command during the Night of Decree in Islamic belief.
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B.
The Spirit
The Spirit is a 2008 neo-noir superhero film adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic comic strip, directed by Frank Miller and known for its stylized visuals and pulpy crime-fantasy tone.
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C.
The Spirit (character)
The Spirit is a masked crime-fighting vigilante from Will Eisner's classic comic series, known for battling criminals in the gritty, noir-inspired Central City.
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D.
Spirit in Motion
Spirit in Motion is the inspirational motto of the Paralympic Games, expressing the energy, courage, and determination of Paralympic athletes.
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E.
Meeting of the Spirits
"Meeting of the Spirits" is a seminal jazz fusion composition by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, showcasing their virtuosic blend of rock intensity, complex rhythms, and Eastern-influenced harmonies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Spirit (comic strip) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Will Eisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacterType | masked crimefighter ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ superhero film ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Denny Colt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Spirit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginAs | comic strip adaptation ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | Will Eisner’s The Spirit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| productionType | made-for-television film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| setting | Central City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Spirit 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 Spirit (television film) Description of subject: The Spirit (television film) is a 1987 made-for-television superhero movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic comic strip about a masked crimefighter in Central City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Spirit (2008 film)