Taxi Driver
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Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taxi Driver canonical | 42 |
| Taxi Driver (1976 film) | 2 |
| Taxi Driver universe | 2 |
| “Taxi Driver” | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197734 — 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: Taxi Driver Context triple: [Jodie Foster, notableWork, Taxi Driver]
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A.
Bugsy
Bugsy was the notorious American mobster Benjamin Siegel, a key figure in the development of Las Vegas and organized crime in the early 20th century.
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B.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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C.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
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D.
American Graffiti
American Graffiti is a 1973 coming-of-age film directed by George Lucas that nostalgically portrays a group of teenagers cruising and confronting life choices over one night in early 1960s California.
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E.
American Gangster
American Gangster is a 2007 crime drama film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe that chronicles the rise and fall of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas in 1970s New York City.
- 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: Taxi Driver Target entity description: Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
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A.
Bugsy
Bugsy was the notorious American mobster Benjamin Siegel, a key figure in the development of Las Vegas and organized crime in the early 20th century.
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B.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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C.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
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D.
American Graffiti
American Graffiti is a 1973 coming-of-age film directed by George Lucas that nostalgically portrays a group of teenagers cruising and confronting life choices over one night in early 1960s California.
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E.
American Gangster
American Gangster is a 2007 crime drama film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe that chronicles the rise and fall of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas in 1970s New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Taxi Driver Description of subject: Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
“Taxi Driver”
this entity surface form:
“Taxi Driver”
this entity surface form:
Taxi Driver universe
subject surface form:
Jodie Foster
this entity surface form:
Taxi Driver (1976 film)
this entity surface form:
Taxi Driver universe
this entity surface form:
Taxi Driver (1976 film)