The Machinist
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The Machinist is a 2004 psychological thriller film known for Christian Bale’s extreme physical transformation to play an insomniac factory worker descending into paranoia and guilt.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Machinist canonical | 23 |
| The Machinist (2004 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2405505 — 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 Machinist Context triple: [Christian Bale, notableWork, The Machinist]
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A.
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream is a psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky that portrays the devastating impact of addiction on four interconnected characters.
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B.
Logorama
Logorama is a 2009 French animated short film that satirically depicts a world made entirely of corporate logos and mascots.
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C.
Overlook
Overlook is a residential neighborhood in North Portland, Oregon, known for its bluff-top views over the Willamette River and easy access to downtown.
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D.
Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, known for its minimalist stage-like set and allegorical exploration of human nature and cruelty.
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E.
The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour is a novel by David Benioff that follows a convicted drug dealer’s final day of freedom in New York City before beginning a seven-year prison sentence.
- 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 Machinist Target entity description: The Machinist is a 2004 psychological thriller film known for Christian Bale’s extreme physical transformation to play an insomniac factory worker descending into paranoia and guilt.
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A.
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream is a psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky that portrays the devastating impact of addiction on four interconnected characters.
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B.
Logorama
Logorama is a 2009 French animated short film that satirically depicts a world made entirely of corporate logos and mascots.
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C.
Overlook
Overlook is a residential neighborhood in North Portland, Oregon, known for its bluff-top views over the Willamette River and easy access to downtown.
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D.
Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, known for its minimalist stage-like set and allegorical exploration of human nature and cruelty.
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E.
The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour is a novel by David Benioff that follows a convicted drug dealer’s final day of freedom in New York City before beginning a seven-year prison sentence.
- 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 Machinist Description of subject: The Machinist is a 2004 psychological thriller film known for Christian Bale’s extreme physical transformation to play an insomniac factory worker descending into paranoia and guilt.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Frederick Reginald Ironside
subject linked to:
Marie
linked to: The Machinist
linked to: The Machinist