The Big Short
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The Big Short is a 2015 biographical comedy-drama film about the 2007–2008 financial crisis, focusing on investors who bet against the U.S. housing market.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Short canonical | 46 |
| The Big Short (2015 film) | 1 |
| The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1779043 — 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 Big Short Context triple: [Plan B Entertainment, notableWork, The Big Short]
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A.
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 biographical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese that chronicles stockbroker Jordan Belfort’s rise and fall amid rampant Wall Street corruption and excess.
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B.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a 2010 financial drama film and sequel to the 1987 movie "Wall Street," exploring themes of greed, redemption, and the 2008 economic crisis.
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C.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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D.
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
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E.
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World is a 2017 crime thriller film dramatizing the real-life 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and his billionaire grandfather’s notorious refusal to pay the ransom.
- 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 Big Short Target entity description: The Big Short is a 2015 biographical comedy-drama film about the 2007–2008 financial crisis, focusing on investors who bet against the U.S. housing market.
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A.
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 biographical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese that chronicles stockbroker Jordan Belfort’s rise and fall amid rampant Wall Street corruption and excess.
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B.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a 2010 financial drama film and sequel to the 1987 movie "Wall Street," exploring themes of greed, redemption, and the 2008 economic crisis.
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C.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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D.
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
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E.
All the Money in the World
All the Money in the World is a 2017 crime thriller film dramatizing the real-life 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and his billionaire grandfather’s notorious refusal to pay the ransom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
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 Big Short Description of subject: The Big Short is a 2015 biographical comedy-drama film about the 2007–2008 financial crisis, focusing on investors who bet against the U.S. housing market.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
this entity surface form:
The Big Short (2015 film)