Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch that follows a modern-day hitman who lives by the ancient code of the samurai.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai canonical | 6 |
| 1999 crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1 |
| Ghost Dog | 1 |
| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416436 — 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: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Context triple: [Forest Whitaker, notableWork, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai]
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (score)
"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (score)" is the atmospheric hip-hop soundtrack composed by RZA for Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 crime film, blending minimalist beats with samurai-inspired themes.
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B.
47 Ronin
47 Ronin is a 2013 fantasy action film loosely inspired by the Japanese legend of the forty-seven rōnin, blending samurai drama with supernatural elements.
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Shishinden
Shishinden is the main ceremonial hall of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, historically used for enthronement rites and important imperial functions in Japan.
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D.
Saho
Saho is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and neighboring regions of the Horn of Africa.
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E.
Ōkagami
Ōkagami is a Japanese historical tale (rekishi monogatari) that offers a semi-fictionalized chronicle of court politics and aristocratic life surrounding the Fujiwara clan during the Heian period.
- 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: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Target entity description: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch that follows a modern-day hitman who lives by the ancient code of the samurai.
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A.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (score)
"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (score)" is the atmospheric hip-hop soundtrack composed by RZA for Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 crime film, blending minimalist beats with samurai-inspired themes.
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B.
47 Ronin
47 Ronin is a 2013 fantasy action film loosely inspired by the Japanese legend of the forty-seven rōnin, blending samurai drama with supernatural elements.
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C.
Shishinden
Shishinden is the main ceremonial hall of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, historically used for enthronement rites and important imperial functions in Japan.
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D.
Saho
Saho is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Saho people in Eritrea and neighboring regions of the Horn of Africa.
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E.
Ōkagami
Ōkagami is a Japanese historical tale (rekishi monogatari) that offers a semi-fictionalized chronicle of court politics and aristocratic life surrounding the Fujiwara clan during the Heian period.
- 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: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Description of subject: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch that follows a modern-day hitman who lives by the ancient code of the samurai.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1999 crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (score)
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originallyComposedFor
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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this entity surface form:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (film)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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mainCharacter
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Ghost Dog