Cypher
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Cypher is a 2002 science fiction thriller film directed by Vincenzo Natali that explores corporate espionage, identity, and memory manipulation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cypher canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11320142 — 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: Cypher Context triple: [Vincenzo Natali, knownFor, Cypher]
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A.
Beckett Cypher
Beckett Cypher was the son of musician Melissa Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher, conceived via sperm donation from singer David Crosby.
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B.
Sparx
Sparx is the loyal dragonfly companion and health indicator who follows Spyro throughout the Spyro the Dragon video game series.
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C.
Royal Cypher
The Royal Cypher is the personal monogram or emblem of a reigning British monarch, typically combining their initials and royal title beneath a crown, and used as an official symbol on uniforms, badges, and government property.
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D.
Nym
Nym is a minor, cynical follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare’s plays, known for his terse, repetitive speech and role as a comic soldier.
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E.
Geth
Geth is a widely used open-source Ethereum client implementation in Go that enables users to run full nodes, interact with smart contracts, and participate in the Ethereum network.
- 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: Cypher Target entity description: Cypher is a 2002 science fiction thriller film directed by Vincenzo Natali that explores corporate espionage, identity, and memory manipulation.
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A.
Beckett Cypher
Beckett Cypher was the son of musician Melissa Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher, conceived via sperm donation from singer David Crosby.
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B.
Sparx
Sparx is the loyal dragonfly companion and health indicator who follows Spyro throughout the Spyro the Dragon video game series.
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C.
Royal Cypher
The Royal Cypher is the personal monogram or emblem of a reigning British monarch, typically combining their initials and royal title beneath a crown, and used as an official symbol on uniforms, badges, and government property.
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D.
Nym
Nym is a minor, cynical follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare’s plays, known for his terse, repetitive speech and role as a comic soldier.
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E.
Geth
Geth is a widely used open-source Ethereum client implementation in Go that enables users to run full nodes, interact with smart contracts, and participate in the Ethereum network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle | Brainstorm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInPartOn | corporate espionage tropes ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Derek Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Vincenzo Natali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lions Gate Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Brett Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
David Hewlett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeremy Northam NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Post NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corporate rivalry
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false memories ⓘ loss of identity ⓘ mind control ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Morgan Sullivan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rita Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | plot twist ending ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
corporate espionage
ⓘ
identity ⓘ memory manipulation ⓘ |
| partOf | early 2000s science fiction cinema ⓘ |
| producer | Steven Hoban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Copperheart Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| releaseEvent | 2002 Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtime | 95 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Brian King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | near future ⓘ |
| starring |
David Hewlett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeremy Northam NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy Liu NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Post 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: Cypher Description of subject: Cypher is a 2002 science fiction thriller film directed by Vincenzo Natali that explores corporate espionage, identity, and memory manipulation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.