The Killer Inside Me (1976 film)
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The Killer Inside Me (1976 film) is an American crime thriller adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel, depicting a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff who hides a violently psychopathic nature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Killer Inside Me (1976 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2198542 — 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 Killer Inside Me (1976 film) Context triple: [The Killer Inside Me (2010 film), follows, The Killer Inside Me (1976 film)]
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A.
The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 neo-noir crime thriller film, based on Jim Thompson’s novel, in which Casey Affleck plays a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff hiding a violent psychopathic nature.
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B.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 cult-classic Western film, noted for its unconventional style, strong female lead, and subversive take on genre conventions.
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C.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, renowned for its gritty portrayal of aging outlaws and its groundbreaking, balletic depictions of graphic violence.
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D.
I Shot the Sheriff
"I Shot the Sheriff" is a reggae song written and first recorded by Bob Marley that became internationally famous, especially through Eric Clapton’s hit cover version.
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E.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 psychological crime thriller directed by Michael Mann, notable as the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels.
- 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 Killer Inside Me (1976 film) Target entity description: The Killer Inside Me (1976 film) is an American crime thriller adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel, depicting a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff who hides a violently psychopathic nature.
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A.
The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 neo-noir crime thriller film, based on Jim Thompson’s novel, in which Casey Affleck plays a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff hiding a violent psychopathic nature.
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B.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 cult-classic Western film, noted for its unconventional style, strong female lead, and subversive take on genre conventions.
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C.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, renowned for its gritty portrayal of aging outlaws and its groundbreaking, balletic depictions of graphic violence.
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D.
I Shot the Sheriff
"I Shot the Sheriff" is a reggae song written and first recorded by Bob Marley that became internationally famous, especially through Eric Clapton’s hit cover version.
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E.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 psychological crime thriller directed by Michael Mann, notable as the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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crime film ⓘ film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
The Killer Inside Me
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surface form:
The Killer Inside Me (novel)
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| author | Jim Thompson ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Killer Inside Me
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surface form:
The Killer Inside Me (novel)
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| characterType | seemingly mild-mannered lawman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fictionalCharacterIn | The Killer Inside Me (1976 film) self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
duality of human nature
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psychopathy ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lou Ford ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | small-town crime ⓘ |
| occupation | deputy sheriff ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | psychopathic ⓘ |
| portrays | hidden violent tendencies ⓘ |
| setting | small town ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthor | Jim Thompson ⓘ |
| sourceWorkGenre | crime novel ⓘ |
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 Killer Inside Me (1976 film) Description of subject: The Killer Inside Me (1976 film) is an American crime thriller adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel, depicting a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff who hides a violently psychopathic nature.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Killer Inside Me (2010 film)
The Killer Inside Me (1976 film)
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fictionalCharacterIn
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The Killer Inside Me (1976 film)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Lou Ford