The Ipcress File
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The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ipcress File canonical | 8 |
| The IPCRESS File | 3 |
| The IPCRESS File film | 1 |
| The Ipcress File (TV series) | 1 |
| The Ipcress File (film) | 1 |
| The Ipcress File (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2249195 — 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 Ipcress File Context triple: [Michael Caine, notableWork, The Ipcress File]
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A.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
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B.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré, renowned for its bleak realism and complex portrayal of intelligence work.
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C.
The Night Manager
The Night Manager is a 1993 espionage novel by John le Carré that follows a former British soldier turned hotel night manager who becomes embroiled in an undercover operation to bring down an international arms dealer.
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D.
A Man Called Intrepid
A Man Called Intrepid is a popular 1976 non-fiction book by William Stevenson that chronicles the World War II espionage activities of British spymaster William Stephenson and the Allied intelligence network he led.
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E.
The Little Drummer Girl
The Little Drummer Girl is a television miniseries adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel, featuring Florence Pugh as a young actress drawn into an intricate Israeli intelligence operation.
- 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 Ipcress File Target entity description: The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
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A.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
-
B.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré, renowned for its bleak realism and complex portrayal of intelligence work.
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C.
The Night Manager
The Night Manager is a 1993 espionage novel by John le Carré that follows a former British soldier turned hotel night manager who becomes embroiled in an undercover operation to bring down an international arms dealer.
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D.
A Man Called Intrepid
A Man Called Intrepid is a popular 1976 non-fiction book by William Stevenson that chronicles the World War II espionage activities of British spymaster William Stephenson and the Allied intelligence network he led.
-
E.
The Little Drummer Girl
The Little Drummer Girl is a television miniseries adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel, featuring Florence Pugh as a young actress drawn into an intricate Israeli intelligence operation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Ipcress File Description of subject: The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Ipcress File (score)
this entity surface form:
The Ipcress File (TV series)
this entity surface form:
The IPCRESS File
this entity surface form:
The IPCRESS File
this entity surface form:
The IPCRESS File
this entity surface form:
The IPCRESS File film
this entity surface form:
The Ipcress File (film)