The Border
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The Border is a 1982 crime drama film starring Jack Nicholson as a corrupt U.S. Border Patrol agent confronting moral dilemmas along the U.S.–Mexico border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Border canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10721933 — 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 Border Context triple: [Adam Holender, workedOn, The Border]
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A.
La Frontera
La Frontera is the historical frontier region in southern Chile that was the site of prolonged conflict and cultural interaction between Spanish colonizers and the indigenous Mapuche people.
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B.
Fronteira
Fronteira is a small Portuguese municipality in the Alentejo region, known for its rural landscape and historical heritage.
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C.
On the Border
"On the Border" is a 1974 rock song by the Eagles, featured on their album of the same name and noted for its blend of country rock and politically tinged lyrics.
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D.
Bordertown
Bordertown is a shared-world urban fantasy series set on the border between the human world and a magical realm, featuring interconnected stories by multiple authors.
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E.
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders is a 2003 romantic war drama film starring Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie that follows aid workers in various global conflict zones.
- 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 Border Target entity description: The Border is a 1982 crime drama film starring Jack Nicholson as a corrupt U.S. Border Patrol agent confronting moral dilemmas along the U.S.–Mexico border.
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A.
La Frontera
La Frontera is the historical frontier region in southern Chile that was the site of prolonged conflict and cultural interaction between Spanish colonizers and the indigenous Mapuche people.
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B.
Fronteira
Fronteira is a small Portuguese municipality in the Alentejo region, known for its rural landscape and historical heritage.
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C.
On the Border
"On the Border" is a 1974 rock song by the Eagles, featured on their album of the same name and noted for its blend of country rock and politically tinged lyrics.
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D.
Bordertown
Bordertown is a shared-world urban fantasy series set on the border between the human world and a magical realm, featuring interconnected stories by multiple authors.
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E.
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders is a 2003 romantic war drama film starring Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie that follows aid workers in various global conflict zones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ric Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tony Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert K. Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
El Paso, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Juárez, Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRating | R ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
illegal immigration ⓘ moral conflict ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Charlie Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Ry Cooder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A corrupt U.S. Border Patrol agent faces moral dilemmas involving illegal immigration and human smuggling along the U.S.–Mexico border. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Nicholson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Edgar Scherick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nick Vanoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1982-02-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 108 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Freeman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Deric Washburn NERFINISHED ⓘ Walton Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
El Paso, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S.–Mexico border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Elpidia Carrillo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvey Keitel NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Nicholson NERFINISHED ⓘ Valerie Perrine NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Oates 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 Border Description of subject: The Border is a 1982 crime drama film starring Jack Nicholson as a corrupt U.S. Border Patrol agent confronting moral dilemmas along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.