The Ghost Writer
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The Ghost Writer is a 2010 political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski about a ghostwriter who uncovers dark secrets while working on the memoirs of a former British prime minister.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ghost Writer canonical | 18 |
| 2010 film The Ghost Writer | 1 |
| The Ghost Writer (2010 film) | 1 |
| The Ghost Writer (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2436675 — 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 Ghost Writer Context triple: [Roman Polanski, notableWork, The Ghost Writer]
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A.
A Most Wanted Man
A Most Wanted Man is a 2008 espionage novel by John le Carré that explores post-9/11 counterterrorism, intelligence manipulation, and moral ambiguity through the story of a mysterious Chechen refugee in Hamburg.
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B.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographical thriller film that dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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C.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a long-running Canadian investigative journalism television program known for its in-depth reporting and exposés on major public-interest issues.
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D.
Our Kind of Traitor
Our Kind of Traitor is a contemporary spy novel by John le Carré that follows an ordinary British couple drawn into the dangerous world of Russian money laundering and international espionage.
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E.
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.
- 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 Ghost Writer Target entity description: The Ghost Writer is a 2010 political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski about a ghostwriter who uncovers dark secrets while working on the memoirs of a former British prime minister.
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A.
A Most Wanted Man
A Most Wanted Man is a 2008 espionage novel by John le Carré that explores post-9/11 counterterrorism, intelligence manipulation, and moral ambiguity through the story of a mysterious Chechen refugee in Hamburg.
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B.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographical thriller film that dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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C.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a long-running Canadian investigative journalism television program known for its in-depth reporting and exposés on major public-interest issues.
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D.
Our Kind of Traitor
Our Kind of Traitor is a contemporary spy novel by John le Carré that follows an ordinary British couple drawn into the dangerous world of Russian money laundering and international espionage.
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E.
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.
- 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 Ghost Writer Description of subject: The Ghost Writer is a 2010 political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski about a ghostwriter who uncovers dark secrets while working on the memoirs of a former British prime minister.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ruth Lang in The Ghost Writer
linked to: The Ghost Writer
subject linked to:
Ruth Lang in The Ghost Writer
linked to: The Ghost Writer