The Butterfly Effect
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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 psychological thriller film in which a man discovers he can travel back in time to alter traumatic events, with each change causing unforeseen and increasingly disturbing consequences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Butterfly Effect canonical | 14 |
| The Butterfly Effect (2004 film) (producer role) | 1 |
| film "The Butterfly Effect" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2125358 — 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 Butterfly Effect Context triple: [Ashton Kutcher, notableWork, The Butterfly Effect]
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A.
The Black Swan
The Black Swan is a 1942 swashbuckling Technicolor adventure film starring Tyrone Power as a reformed pirate caught in a tale of romance and high-seas intrigue.
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B.
Blink
Blink is an open-source web browser engine developed primarily by Google and used in several major browsers to render web pages.
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C.
The Turning Point
The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film about the world of professional ballet, noted for its performances by Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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D.
Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 romantic drama film set in Rome that follows three American women searching for love, famed for its picturesque Italian locations and its Oscar-winning title song.
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E.
Eternal Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine is a 2024 pop and R&B album by Ariana Grande that blends confessional lyrics with sleek, contemporary production.
- 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 Butterfly Effect Target entity description: The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 psychological thriller film in which a man discovers he can travel back in time to alter traumatic events, with each change causing unforeseen and increasingly disturbing consequences.
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A.
The Black Swan
The Black Swan is a 1942 swashbuckling Technicolor adventure film starring Tyrone Power as a reformed pirate caught in a tale of romance and high-seas intrigue.
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B.
Blink
Blink is an open-source web browser engine developed primarily by Google and used in several major browsers to render web pages.
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C.
The Turning Point
The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film about the world of professional ballet, noted for its performances by Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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D.
Three Coins in the Fountain
Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 romantic drama film set in Rome that follows three American women searching for love, famed for its picturesque Italian locations and its Oscar-winning title song.
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E.
Eternal Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine is a 2024 pop and R&B album by Ariana Grande that blends confessional lyrics with sleek, contemporary production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Butterfly Effect Description of subject: The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 psychological thriller film in which a man discovers he can travel back in time to alter traumatic events, with each change causing unforeseen and increasingly disturbing consequences.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
film "The Butterfly Effect"
subject surface form:
Ashton Kutcher
this entity surface form:
The Butterfly Effect (2004 film) (producer role)