The Nice Guys
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The Nice Guys is a 2016 neo-noir action-comedy film directed by Shane Black, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as mismatched private investigators in 1970s Los Angeles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Nice Guys canonical | 23 |
| The Nice Guys (2016 film) | 1 |
| The Nice Guys franchise | 1 |
| The Nice Guys universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T203598 — 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 Nice Guys Context triple: [Russell Crowe, notableWork, The Nice Guys]
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A.
The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen is a 2019 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie that follows an American marijuana kingpin in London whose attempt to sell his empire triggers schemes, blackmail, and underworld chaos.
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B.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 satirical Western comedy film directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane, known for its irreverent humor and parody of classic frontier tropes.
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C.
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses is a 2011 dark comedy film about three friends who plot to murder their abusive employers, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis.
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D.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a stylish, action-comedy spy film that parodies and modernizes the classic British secret agent genre with over-the-top violence and sharp humor.
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E.
Green Room
Green Room is a 2015 American horror-thriller film about a punk band trapped in a remote neo-Nazi club, noted for its intense violence and suspenseful, claustrophobic atmosphere.
- 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 Nice Guys Target entity description: The Nice Guys is a 2016 neo-noir action-comedy film directed by Shane Black, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as mismatched private investigators in 1970s Los Angeles.
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A.
The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen is a 2019 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie that follows an American marijuana kingpin in London whose attempt to sell his empire triggers schemes, blackmail, and underworld chaos.
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B.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 satirical Western comedy film directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane, known for its irreverent humor and parody of classic frontier tropes.
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C.
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses is a 2011 dark comedy film about three friends who plot to murder their abusive employers, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis.
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D.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a stylish, action-comedy spy film that parodies and modernizes the classic British secret agent genre with over-the-top violence and sharp humor.
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E.
Green Room
Green Room is a 2015 American horror-thriller film about a punk band trapped in a remote neo-Nazi club, noted for its intense violence and suspenseful, claustrophobic atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Nice Guys Description of subject: The Nice Guys is a 2016 neo-noir action-comedy film directed by Shane Black, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as mismatched private investigators in 1970s Los Angeles.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jackson Healy
subject surface form:
Jackson Healy
this entity surface form:
The Nice Guys (2016 film)
this entity surface form:
The Nice Guys franchise
this entity surface form:
The Nice Guys universe