The Big Empty
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The Big Empty is a 2003 indie mystery-comedy film that blends deadpan humor with surreal, desert-set noir elements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Empty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10287181 — 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 Big Empty Context triple: [Bud Cort, playedIn, The Big Empty]
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A.
Big Empty
"Big Empty" is a popular grunge-influenced rock song by Stone Temple Pilots, best known for its moody atmosphere and prominent appearance on the soundtrack of the film *The Crow* as well as their album *Purple*.
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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.
The Empty Beach
The Empty Beach is an Australian crime thriller film adapted from Peter Corris's novel, following a Sydney private investigator drawn into a mysterious missing-person case.
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D.
The Hollow Places
The Hollow Places is a contemporary horror novel by T. Kingfisher that blends cosmic dread, dark humor, and portal fantasy as a woman discovers a terrifying alternate world hidden behind a wall in her uncle’s museum.
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E.
The Big Thing
The Big Thing is a public sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, known for its bold, contemporary design and prominent placement in the city’s urban landscape.
- 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 Big Empty Target entity description: The Big Empty is a 2003 indie mystery-comedy film that blends deadpan humor with surreal, desert-set noir elements.
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A.
Big Empty
"Big Empty" is a popular grunge-influenced rock song by Stone Temple Pilots, best known for its moody atmosphere and prominent appearance on the soundtrack of the film *The Crow* as well as their album *Purple*.
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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.
The Empty Beach
The Empty Beach is an Australian crime thriller film adapted from Peter Corris's novel, following a Sydney private investigator drawn into a mysterious missing-person case.
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D.
The Hollow Places
The Hollow Places is a contemporary horror novel by T. Kingfisher that blends cosmic dread, dark humor, and portal fantasy as a woman discovers a terrifying alternate world hidden behind a wall in her uncle’s museum.
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E.
The Big Thing
The Big Thing is a public sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, known for its bold, contemporary design and prominent placement in the city’s urban landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Richard Rutkowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Steve Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Artisan Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Luis Colina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| genre | mystery-comedy ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasElement |
deadpan humor
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neo-noir elements ⓘ surrealism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorForCharacter_John Person | Jon Favreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | John Person NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Brian Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending indie comedy with desert-set noir atmosphere
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enigmatic, ambiguous ending ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A struggling actor agrees to deliver a mysterious blue suitcase to a desert town, becoming entangled with eccentric locals and possibly otherworldly forces. ⓘ |
| producer |
Jon Favreau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Rutkowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| setting |
California desert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mojave Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Adam Beach
NERFINISHED
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Brent Briscoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Bud Cort NERFINISHED ⓘ Clancy Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Daryl Hannah NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Farmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Joey Lauren Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Favreau NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Gries NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelsey Grammer NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachael Leigh Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean Bean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Steve Anderson 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: The Big Empty Description of subject: The Big Empty is a 2003 indie mystery-comedy film that blends deadpan humor with surreal, desert-set noir elements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.