Blade Runner
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Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film set in a dystopian future where a "blade runner" hunts bioengineered replicants, renowned for its atmospheric visuals and philosophical themes about humanity and identity.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blade Runner canonical | 39 |
| Blade Runner (1982 film) | 6 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 6 |
| Blade Runner franchise | 2 |
| Blade Runner (film) | 1 |
| Blade Runner characters | 1 |
| Blade Runner universe | 1 |
| Blade Runner: Director's Cut | 1 |
| Blade Runner: The Final Cut | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1775369 — 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: Blade Runner Context triple: [Ridley Scott, notableWork, Blade Runner]
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Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 neo-noir science fiction film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and acclaimed for its visually stunning cinematography and philosophical exploration of identity and humanity.
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B.
THX 1138
THX 1138 is a dystopian science fiction film set in a sterile, totalitarian future where citizens are controlled through drugs and surveillance.
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C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction novel and film exploring human evolution, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, renowned for its philosophical depth and visionary depiction of space travel.
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D.
The Matrix
The Matrix is a groundbreaking 1999 science fiction film that blends cyberpunk action with philosophical themes about reality, featuring innovative visual effects like "bullet time" and a dystopian story of humans trapped in a simulated world.
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E.
Alien (1979 film)
Alien (1979 film) is a landmark science fiction horror movie directed by Ridley Scott, renowned for its suspenseful storytelling, groundbreaking creature design, and lasting influence on both genres.
- 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: Blade Runner Target entity description: Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film set in a dystopian future where a "blade runner" hunts bioengineered replicants, renowned for its atmospheric visuals and philosophical themes about humanity and identity.
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A.
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 neo-noir science fiction film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and acclaimed for its visually stunning cinematography and philosophical exploration of identity and humanity.
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B.
THX 1138
THX 1138 is a dystopian science fiction film set in a sterile, totalitarian future where citizens are controlled through drugs and surveillance.
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C.
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark science fiction novel and film exploring human evolution, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, renowned for its philosophical depth and visionary depiction of space travel.
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D.
The Matrix
The Matrix is a groundbreaking 1999 science fiction film that blends cyberpunk action with philosophical themes about reality, featuring innovative visual effects like "bullet time" and a dystopian story of humans trapped in a simulated world.
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E.
Alien (1979 film)
Alien (1979 film) is a landmark science fiction horror movie directed by Ridley Scott, renowned for its suspenseful storytelling, groundbreaking creature design, and lasting influence on both genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: Blade Runner Description of subject: Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film set in a dystopian future where a "blade runner" hunts bioengineered replicants, renowned for its atmospheric visuals and philosophical themes about humanity and identity.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner franchise
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner characters
this entity surface form:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
this entity surface form:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
subject surface form:
Ridley Scott
this entity surface form:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner: Director's Cut
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner franchise
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Blade Runner universe
this entity surface form:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?