Mr. Holmes (2015 film)
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Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery drama film that portrays an aging Sherlock Holmes, played by Ian McKellen, grappling with his fading memory while revisiting an unsolved case from his past.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Holmes | 3 |
| Mr. Holmes (2015 film) canonical | 2 |
| Mr. Holmes (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2138095 — 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)
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Target entity: Mr. Holmes (2015 film) Context triple: [Ian McKellen, notableWork, Mr. Holmes (2015 film)]
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A.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, serving as the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and following the famed detective’s battle against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.
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B.
Holmes Makes It Right
Holmes Makes It Right is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series in which contractor Mike Holmes fixes botched construction and helps homeowners by rebuilding their homes correctly.
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C.
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
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D.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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E.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
- 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: Mr. Holmes (2015 film) Target entity description: Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery drama film that portrays an aging Sherlock Holmes, played by Ian McKellen, grappling with his fading memory while revisiting an unsolved case from his past.
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A.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, serving as the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and following the famed detective’s battle against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.
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B.
Holmes Makes It Right
Holmes Makes It Right is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series in which contractor Mike Holmes fixes botched construction and helps homeowners by rebuilding their homes correctly.
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C.
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
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D.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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E.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mr. Holmes (2015 film) Description of subject: Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery drama film that portrays an aging Sherlock Holmes, played by Ian McKellen, grappling with his fading memory while revisiting an unsolved case from his past.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mr. Holmes
this entity surface form:
Mr. Holmes
subject surface form:
Ian McKellen
this entity surface form:
Mr. Holmes
subject surface form:
A Slight Trick of the Mind
this entity surface form:
Mr. Holmes (film)