Snowden (2016 film)
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Snowden (2016 film) is a biographical political thriller directed by Oliver Stone that dramatizes the life and NSA revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Snowden (2016 film) canonical | 3 |
| Oliver Stone film "Snowden" | 1 |
| Snowden | 1 |
| Snowden (film) | 1 |
| film "Snowden" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T861939 — 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: Snowden (2016 film) Context triple: [Edward Snowden, subjectOf, Snowden (2016 film)]
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A.
Citizenfour
Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film by Laura Poitras that chronicles Edward Snowden’s revelations about global mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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B.
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Tom Hanks stars as a lawyer negotiating a Cold War spy exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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C.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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D.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographical thriller film that dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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E.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a long-running Canadian investigative journalism television program known for its in-depth reporting and exposés on major public-interest issues.
- 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: Snowden (2016 film) Target entity description: Snowden (2016 film) is a biographical political thriller directed by Oliver Stone that dramatizes the life and NSA revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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A.
Citizenfour
Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film by Laura Poitras that chronicles Edward Snowden’s revelations about global mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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B.
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Tom Hanks stars as a lawyer negotiating a Cold War spy exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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C.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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D.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographical thriller film that dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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E.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a long-running Canadian investigative journalism television program known for its in-depth reporting and exposés on major public-interest issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Snowden (2016 film) Description of subject: Snowden (2016 film) is a biographical political thriller directed by Oliver Stone that dramatizes the life and NSA revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Snowden (2016 film)
linked to: Snowden (2016 film)
linked to: Snowden (2016 film)
linked to: Snowden (2016 film)