The Postman
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The Postman is a 1997 post-apocalyptic drama film set in a dystopian future United States, in which a drifter becomes a symbol of hope and rebuilding for scattered communities.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Postman canonical | 18 |
| The Postman (1997 film) | 3 |
| The Postman (film) | 2 |
| The Postman (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T933872 — 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 Postman Context triple: [Kevin Costner, directed, The Postman]
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A.
The Chief
The Chief is the nickname of Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame NBA center best known for his long, successful tenure with the Boston Celtics and his record for most games played in league history.
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B.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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C.
Het Hogeland
Het Hogeland is a coastal municipality in the northern Netherlands known for its open landscapes, historic villages, and Wadden Sea shoreline.
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D.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
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E.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
- 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 Postman Target entity description: The Postman is a 1997 post-apocalyptic drama film set in a dystopian future United States, in which a drifter becomes a symbol of hope and rebuilding for scattered communities.
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A.
The Chief
The Chief is the nickname of Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame NBA center best known for his long, successful tenure with the Boston Celtics and his record for most games played in league history.
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B.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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C.
Het Hogeland
Het Hogeland is a coastal municipality in the northern Netherlands known for its open landscapes, historic villages, and Wadden Sea shoreline.
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D.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
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E.
The Ghost of Tom Joad
The Ghost of Tom Joad is a stark, acoustic-driven folk album by Bruce Springsteen that explores themes of social injustice, poverty, and the struggles of marginalized people in contemporary America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Postman Description of subject: The Postman is a 1997 post-apocalyptic drama film set in a dystopian future United States, in which a drifter becomes a symbol of hope and rebuilding for scattered communities.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Costner family
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