The Godfather trilogy

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American film series crime film series film series

The Godfather trilogy is a landmark series of American crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola that chronicles the rise and evolution of the Corleone mafia family and is widely regarded as one of the greatest film sagas in cinema history.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
The Godfather universe	25
The Godfather film series	18
The Godfather franchise	7
The Godfather series	5
The Godfather (film series)	3
The Godfather saga	3
The Godfather trilogy canonical	3
The Godfather Saga	2
The Godfather (film series, as screenwriter)	1
The Godfather film franchise	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172985 — 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 Godfather trilogy
Context triple: [The Godfather, partOf, The Godfather trilogy]

A. The Godfather
The Godfather is a landmark 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola that chronicles the powerful Corleone mafia family and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history.
B. The Godfather Part III
The Godfather Part III is a 1990 crime drama film that concludes the saga of the Corleone family, focusing on an aging Michael Corleone’s attempts to legitimize his empire amid betrayal and violence.
C. The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola that intertwines the rise of young Vito Corleone with the troubled reign of his son Michael, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history.
D. Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese that chronicles the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill within the New York Mafia.
E. The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film about federal agent Eliot Ness’s battle against gangster Al Capone during Prohibition-era Chicago.
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 Godfather trilogy
Target entity description: The Godfather trilogy is a landmark series of American crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola that chronicles the rise and evolution of the Corleone mafia family and is widely regarded as one of the greatest film sagas in cinema history.

A. The Godfather
The Godfather is a landmark 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola that chronicles the powerful Corleone mafia family and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history.
B. The Godfather Part III
The Godfather Part III is a 1990 crime drama film that concludes the saga of the Corleone family, focusing on an aging Michael Corleone’s attempts to legitimize his empire amid betrayal and violence.
C. The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic directed by Francis Ford Coppola that intertwines the rise of young Vito Corleone with the troubled reign of his son Michael, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history.
D. Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese that chronicles the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill within the New York Mafia.
E. The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film about federal agent Eliot Ness’s battle against gangster Al Capone during Prohibition-era Chicago.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film series ⓘ crime film series ⓘ film series ⓘ
authorOfSourceMaterial	Mario Puzo ⓘ
basedOn	The Godfather (novel) ⓘ
cinemaRecognition	widely regarded as one of the greatest film sagas in cinema history ⓘ
composer	Nino Rota ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
coWriter	Francis Ford Coppola ⓘ Mario Puzo ⓘ
depicts	Italian-American Mafia ⓘ organized crime ⓘ
director	Francis Ford Coppola ⓘ
distributor	Paramount Pictures ⓘ
endTime	1990 ⓘ
firstFilm	The Godfather ⓘ
follows	The Godfather (novel) ⓘ
genre	crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ
hasPart	The Godfather ⓘ The Godfather Part II ⓘ The Godfather Part III ⓘ
influenced	popular culture depictions of the Mafia ⓘ subsequent gangster films ⓘ
mainCharacter	Connie Corleone ⓘ Kay Adams ⓘ Michael Corleone ⓘ Sonny Corleone ⓘ Tom Hagen ⓘ Vito Corleone ⓘ
notableAward	multiple Academy Awards for its individual films ⓘ
notableCastMember	Al Pacino ⓘ Diane Keaton ⓘ James Caan ⓘ Marlon Brando ⓘ Robert De Niro ⓘ Robert Duvall ⓘ Talia Shire ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
productionCompany	Paramount Pictures ⓘ
secondFilm	The Godfather Part II ⓘ
setting	Las Vegas ⓘ linked to: Las Vegas, Nevada New York City ⓘ Sicily ⓘ
startTime	1972 ⓘ
theme	corruption ⓘ crime ⓘ family ⓘ loyalty ⓘ power ⓘ
thirdFilm	The Godfather Part III ⓘ

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