The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical war comedy film about a secret U.S. military unit experimenting with psychic powers, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Men Who Stare at Goats | 7 |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (film) canonical | 2 |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217389 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Men Who Stare at Goats (film) Context triple: [Peter Straughan, notableWork, The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)]
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Los Gusanos
Los Gusanos was a short-lived rock band formed by Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone that played a harder, more metal-influenced style than his main group.
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Attack the Block
Attack the Block is a 2011 British science fiction action-comedy film about a South London teen gang defending their housing estate from an alien invasion.
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Pontypool
Pontypool is a historic industrial town in Torfaen, South Wales, known for its iron and steel heritage and location near the eastern edge of the South Wales Valleys.
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Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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The Host
The Host is a 2013 science fiction film, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, in which Diane Kruger plays a key role in a future where alien “souls” have taken over human bodies.
- 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 Men Who Stare at Goats (film) Target entity description: The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical war comedy film about a secret U.S. military unit experimenting with psychic powers, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.
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A.
Los Gusanos
Los Gusanos was a short-lived rock band formed by Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone that played a harder, more metal-influenced style than his main group.
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B.
Attack the Block
Attack the Block is a 2011 British science fiction action-comedy film about a South London teen gang defending their housing estate from an alien invasion.
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C.
Pontypool
Pontypool is a historic industrial town in Torfaen, South Wales, known for its iron and steel heritage and location near the eastern edge of the South Wales Valleys.
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D.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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E.
The Host
The Host is a 2013 science fiction film, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, in which Diane Kruger plays a key role in a future where alien “souls” have taken over human bodies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Men Who Stare at Goats (film) Description of subject: The Men Who Stare at Goats is a 2009 satirical war comedy film about a secret U.S. military unit experimenting with psychic powers, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.
Referenced by (10)
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (screenplay)
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