The Drowning Pool
E121948
The Drowning Pool is a 1975 neo-noir mystery film starring Paul Newman as private detective Lew Harper, adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novel of the same name.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Drowning Pool canonical | 19 |
| The Drowning Pool (1975 film) | 6 |
| The Drowning Pool (novel) | 2 |
| The Drowning Pool (film) | 1 |
| the Drowning Pool | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1062179 — 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 Drowning Pool Context triple: [Murray Hamilton, notableWork, The Drowning Pool]
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A.
The Sentry
The Sentry is a 17th-century painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius, noted for its subtle use of light and psychological depth in depicting a solitary guard.
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B.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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C.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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D.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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E.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
- 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 Drowning Pool Target entity description: The Drowning Pool is a 1975 neo-noir mystery film starring Paul Newman as private detective Lew Harper, adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novel of the same name.
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A.
The Sentry
The Sentry is a 17th-century painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius, noted for its subtle use of light and psychological depth in depicting a solitary guard.
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B.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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C.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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D.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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E.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Drowning Pool Description of subject: The Drowning Pool is a 1975 neo-noir mystery film starring Paul Newman as private detective Lew Harper, adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novel of the same name.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Drowning Pool
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subject linked to:
Lew Harper – Paul Newman
subject linked to:
Lew Harper – Paul Newman
linked to: The Drowning Pool
linked to: The Drowning Pool
linked to: The Drowning Pool
linked to: The Drowning Pool