The Spoilers
E116498
"The Spoilers" is a classic early 20th-century American Western story, best known through its multiple film adaptations depicting corruption and conflict in the Alaskan gold rush era.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spoilers canonical | 12 |
| The Spoilers (1942 film) | 1 |
| The Spoilers (1955 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T980098 — 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 Spoilers Context triple: [Noah Beery, notableWork, The Spoilers]
-
A.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
-
B.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
-
C.
Las Bombas
Las Bombas is a Metrobús station in Mexico City that serves as a terminus on Line 5 of the bus rapid transit system.
-
D.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
-
E.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
- 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 Spoilers Target entity description: "The Spoilers" is a classic early 20th-century American Western story, best known through its multiple film adaptations depicting corruption and conflict in the Alaskan gold rush era.
-
A.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
-
B.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
-
C.
Las Bombas
Las Bombas is a Metrobús station in Mexico City that serves as a terminus on Line 5 of the bus rapid transit system.
-
D.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
-
E.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American novel
ⓘ
Western novel ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Rex Beach ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Spoilers
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
The Spoilers self-linksurface differs ⓘ The Spoilers self-linksurface differs ⓘ The Spoilers self-linksurface differs ⓘ The Spoilers self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
conflict over gold claims
ⓘ
political corruption in frontier Alaska ⓘ |
| genre |
Western fiction
ⓘ
adventure fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Spoilers (1914 film)
ⓘ
The Spoilers (1914 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Spoilers (1923 film)
The Spoilers (1930 film) ⓘ The Spoilers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Spoilers (1942 film)
The Spoilers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Spoilers (1955 film)
|
| literaryPeriod | early 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
corruption in gold mining claims
ⓘ
frontier justice ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Alaskan gold rush ⓘ |
| notableFor | multiple film adaptations ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| setting |
Alaska
ⓘ
Nome, Alaska ⓘ |
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 Spoilers Description of subject: "The Spoilers" is a classic early 20th-century American Western story, best known through its multiple film adaptations depicting corruption and conflict in the Alaskan gold rush era.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Spoilers (1942 film)
this entity surface form:
The Spoilers (1955 film)
subject surface form:
The Spoilers (1914 film)
subject surface form:
The Spoilers (1923 film)
subject surface form:
The Spoilers (1930 film)
subject surface form:
The Spoilers (1942 film)
subject surface form:
The Spoilers (1955 film)