Sleeping Dogs
E1034740
Sleeping Dogs is a 1977 New Zealand political thriller film that marked Roger Donaldson’s feature directorial debut and helped launch the modern New Zealand film industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sleeping Dogs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13351373 — 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: Sleeping Dogs Context triple: [Roger Donaldson, notableWork, Sleeping Dogs]
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A.
Yakuza
Yakuza is a popular action-adventure video game series by Sega that follows the dramatic, crime-filled lives of Japanese gangsters in richly detailed urban settings.
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B.
The Yakuza
The Yakuza is a 1974 neo-noir crime film that explores the Japanese criminal underworld and themes of honor and obligation through a cross-cultural story involving an American man returning to Japan.
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C.
San Andreas
San Andreas is a 2015 disaster action film starring Dwayne Johnson that centers on a massive earthquake devastating California.
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D.
Rage
Rage is a nonfiction book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward that examines the Trump presidency through interviews, insider accounts, and analysis of key events.
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E.
Rage
Rage is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that continues the saga of the Courtney family against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa.
- 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: Sleeping Dogs Target entity description: Sleeping Dogs is a 1977 New Zealand political thriller film that marked Roger Donaldson’s feature directorial debut and helped launch the modern New Zealand film industry.
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A.
Yakuza
Yakuza is a popular action-adventure video game series by Sega that follows the dramatic, crime-filled lives of Japanese gangsters in richly detailed urban settings.
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B.
The Yakuza
The Yakuza is a 1974 neo-noir crime film that explores the Japanese criminal underworld and themes of honor and obligation through a cross-cultural story involving an American man returning to Japan.
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C.
San Andreas
San Andreas is a 2015 disaster action film starring Dwayne Johnson that centers on a massive earthquake devastating California.
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D.
Rage
Rage is a nonfiction book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward that examines the Trump presidency through interviews, insider accounts, and analysis of key events.
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E.
Rage
Rage is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that continues the saga of the Courtney family against the backdrop of apartheid-era South Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealand film
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film ⓘ political thriller film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | C. K. Stead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Smith’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificateRating | R16 (New Zealand) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Geoffrey Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| director | Roger Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Hemdale Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael Horton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureDirectorialDebutOf | Roger Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
authoritarian government
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civil resistance ⓘ political unrest ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Auckland
NERFINISHED
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Coromandel Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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political thriller ⓘ |
| hasFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| hasPosterCaption | Theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mathew Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first New Zealand feature films of the modern era
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helping launch the modern New Zealand film industry ⓘ |
| portrays | fictional coup in New Zealand ⓘ |
| producer | Roger Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Aardvark Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1971 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977-10-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 107 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ian Mune
NERFINISHED
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Roger Donaldson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | near future ⓘ |
| starring |
Clyde Scott
NERFINISHED
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Don Selwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Mune NERFINISHED ⓘ Mervyn Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Neville Purvis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren Oates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sleeping Dogs Description of subject: Sleeping Dogs is a 1977 New Zealand political thriller film that marked Roger Donaldson’s feature directorial debut and helped launch the modern New Zealand film industry.
Referenced by (2)
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