Quintet
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Quintet is a 1979 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Robert Altman and starring Paul Newman, set in an ice-covered future where a deadly board game dictates survival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quintet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10691569 — 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: Quintet Context triple: [Bibi Andersson, notableWork, Quintet]
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A.
Quartet
"Quartet" is a 2012 British comedy-drama film directed by Dustin Hoffman about retired opera singers reuniting for a gala performance at their countryside retirement home.
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B.
Sextet
"Sextet" is a 1982 post-punk and funk-influenced studio album by the English band A Certain Ratio, noted for its experimental sound and prominent use of female vocals.
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C.
Trio
Trio is a collaborative country music album by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris that became widely acclaimed for its harmonies and songwriting.
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D.
The New Quartet
The New Quartet is a jazz album by vibraphonist Gary Burton that showcases his innovative fusion of jazz, rock, and contemporary classical influences.
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E.
Forellenquintett
Forellenquintett is the German title of Franz Schubert’s famous Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, popularly known in English as the "Trout" Quintet.
- 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: Quintet Target entity description: Quintet is a 1979 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Robert Altman and starring Paul Newman, set in an ice-covered future where a deadly board game dictates survival.
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A.
Quartet
"Quartet" is a 2012 British comedy-drama film directed by Dustin Hoffman about retired opera singers reuniting for a gala performance at their countryside retirement home.
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B.
Sextet
"Sextet" is a 1982 post-punk and funk-influenced studio album by the English band A Certain Ratio, noted for its experimental sound and prominent use of female vocals.
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C.
Trio
Trio is a collaborative country music album by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris that became widely acclaimed for its harmonies and songwriting.
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D.
The New Quartet
The New Quartet is a jazz album by vibraphonist Gary Burton that showcases his innovative fusion of jazz, rock, and contemporary classical influences.
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E.
Forellenquintett
Forellenquintett is the German title of Franz Schubert’s famous Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, popularly known in English as the "Trout" Quintet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| artDirector | Wolf Kroeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jean Boffety NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Scott Bushnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Robert Altman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dennis M. Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Expo 67 site
NERFINISHED
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Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
post-apocalyptic ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasBoardGameInPlot | Quintet (fictional game) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Bibi Andersson
NERFINISHED
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Brigitte Fossey NERFINISHED ⓘ David Langton NERFINISHED ⓘ Fernando Rey NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Zaslow NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Van Pallandt NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ Vittorio Gassman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fatalism
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game as metaphor for life ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Tom Pierson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | tournament of lethal board game ⓘ |
| plotElement | deadly board game determines who lives and dies ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Altman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Lion's Gate Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1979-02-09 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 118 ⓘ |
| setting |
ice-covered world
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post-apocalyptic future ⓘ |
| starring | Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | unspecified distant future ⓘ |
| visualStyle | bleak winter landscapes ⓘ |
| writer |
Patricia Resnick
NERFINISHED
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Robert Altman 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: Quintet Description of subject: Quintet is a 1979 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Robert Altman and starring Paul Newman, set in an ice-covered future where a deadly board game dictates survival.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.