The Amateur
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The Amateur is a 1981 espionage thriller film about a CIA cryptographer who seeks personal revenge after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Amateur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10301097 — 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 Amateur Context triple: [John Colicos, appearedIn, The Amateur]
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A.
The Amateur
The Amateur is one of the most prestigious and historic amateur golf championships in the world, organized by The R&A and typically played annually in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Amadores
Amadores is a popular beach resort area on the southwest coast of Gran Canaria in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its calm waters and man-made white-sand beach.
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C.
The Rookie
The Rookie is a 2002 sports drama film based on the true story of high school teacher and former pitcher Jim Morris, who makes an unexpected late-in-life debut in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Beneath the Underdog
Beneath the Underdog is the controversial, semi-autobiographical memoir of jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, chronicling his turbulent life, music, and psyche.
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E.
The Young Man
The Young Man is a central, unnamed character often portrayed as a youthful, impressionable figure whose experiences and development drive the narrative’s exploration of identity and coming of age.
- 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 Amateur Target entity description: The Amateur is a 1981 espionage thriller film about a CIA cryptographer who seeks personal revenge after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack.
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A.
The Amateur
The Amateur is one of the most prestigious and historic amateur golf championships in the world, organized by The R&A and typically played annually in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Amadores
Amadores is a popular beach resort area on the southwest coast of Gran Canaria in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its calm waters and man-made white-sand beach.
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C.
The Rookie
The Rookie is a 2002 sports drama film based on the true story of high school teacher and former pitcher Jim Morris, who makes an unexpected late-in-life debut in Major League Baseball.
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D.
Beneath the Underdog
Beneath the Underdog is the controversial, semi-autobiographical memoir of jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, chronicling his turbulent life, music, and psyche.
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E.
The Young Man
The Young Man is a central, unnamed character often portrayed as a youthful, impressionable figure whose experiences and development drive the narrative’s exploration of identity and coming of age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
espionage film
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film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Robert Littell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Amateur (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Albert J. Dunk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Laurence Rosenthal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Charles Jarrott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Avco Embassy Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Ralph Brunjes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Toronto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsCharacterOccupation | CIA cryptographer ⓘ |
| genre |
espionage
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasCIAAsOrganizationDepicted | true ⓘ |
| hasFianceeCharacterKilledBy | terrorist attack ⓘ |
| hasMaleProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Charles Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | personal vendetta against terrorists ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Cold War spy films ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A CIA cryptographer seeks personal revenge after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack. ⓘ |
| producer | Martin Ransohoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Marvin Worth Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| runtime | 112 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Laurence Rosenthal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Littell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Arthur Hill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christopher Plummer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ed Lauter NERFINISHED ⓘ George Coe NERFINISHED ⓘ John Savage NERFINISHED ⓘ Marthe Keller NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Amateur Description of subject: The Amateur is a 1981 espionage thriller film about a CIA cryptographer who seeks personal revenge after his fiancée is killed in a terrorist attack.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.