The Telephone Book
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The Telephone Book is a 1971 American underground black comedy film known for its avant-garde style, sexual satire, and cult status.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Telephone Book canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10721929 — 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 Telephone Book Context triple: [Adam Holender, workedOn, The Telephone Book]
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A.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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B.
The Common Touch
The Common Touch is a British stage production in which actor and playwright Frank Vosper appeared.
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C.
Die Taubenpost
Die Taubenpost is a late song by Franz Schubert, often considered an informal part of his song cycle "Schwanengesang" and noted for its lyrical, wistful character.
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D.
The News Agents
The News Agents is a popular British news and current affairs podcast featuring in-depth analysis and interviews, co-hosted by prominent journalists including Emily Maitlis.
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E.
The Listener
The Listener is a Canadian supernatural drama television series that follows a young paramedic with telepathic abilities who helps solve crimes by reading people's thoughts.
- 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 Telephone Book Target entity description: The Telephone Book is a 1971 American underground black comedy film known for its avant-garde style, sexual satire, and cult status.
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A.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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B.
The Common Touch
The Common Touch is a British stage production in which actor and playwright Frank Vosper appeared.
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C.
Die Taubenpost
Die Taubenpost is a late song by Franz Schubert, often considered an informal part of his song cycle "Schwanengesang" and noted for its lyrical, wistful character.
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D.
The News Agents
The News Agents is a popular British news and current affairs podcast featuring in-depth analysis and interviews, co-hosted by prominent journalists including Emily Maitlis.
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E.
The Listener
The Listener is a Canadian supernatural drama television series that follows a young paramedic with telepathic abilities who helps solve crimes by reading people's thoughts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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underground film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gordon Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Nelson Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Audubon Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Sidney Katz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1970s American cinema ⓘ |
| filmRating | X ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde film
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black comedy ⓘ satire ⓘ sex comedy ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Barry Morse
NERFINISHED
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Dolph Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ James Harder NERFINISHED ⓘ Jill Clayburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger C. Carmel NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ William Hickey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasFilmPosterDesigner | Merv Bloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHomeMediaRelease |
Blu-ray
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DVD ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
obscenity and censorship
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sexual liberation ⓘ voyeurism ⓘ |
| homeMediaDistributor | Vinegar Syndrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jack Cortner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
avant-garde style
ⓘ
cult status ⓘ sexual satire ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young woman in New York becomes obsessed with finding an anonymous obscene phone caller with whom she has fallen in love. ⓘ |
| producer | Merv Bloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Elephant Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nelson Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
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 Telephone Book Description of subject: The Telephone Book is a 1971 American underground black comedy film known for its avant-garde style, sexual satire, and cult status.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.