Near Dark
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Near Dark is a 1987 neo-Western horror film that blends vampire mythology with gritty Americana and is widely regarded as an influential cult classic.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Near Dark canonical | 33 |
| Near Dark (1987 film) | 5 |
| Near Dark franchise | 2 |
| Near Dark (1987) | 1 |
| Near Dark (soundtrack) | 1 |
| Near Dark universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2462221 — 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: Near Dark Context triple: [Kathryn Bigelow, notableWork, Near Dark]
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A.
In the Dark
"In the Dark" is a 1987 studio album by the Grateful Dead that became their biggest commercial success, featuring the hit single "Touch of Grey."
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B.
Love in the Dark
"Love in the Dark" is a soulful piano ballad by Adele, featured on her 2015 album "25," known for its emotional vocals and themes of heartbreak and letting go.
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C.
Seeing in the Dark
"Seeing in the Dark" is a popular science book by Timothy Ferris that explores the history, culture, and personal experience of amateur astronomy and stargazing.
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D.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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E.
The Darkest Minds
The Darkest Minds is a 2018 dystopian science fiction film, based on Alexandra Bracken’s novel, about superpowered teenagers fighting a repressive government.
- 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: Near Dark Target entity description: Near Dark is a 1987 neo-Western horror film that blends vampire mythology with gritty Americana and is widely regarded as an influential cult classic.
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A.
In the Dark
"In the Dark" is a 1987 studio album by the Grateful Dead that became their biggest commercial success, featuring the hit single "Touch of Grey."
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B.
Love in the Dark
"Love in the Dark" is a soulful piano ballad by Adele, featured on her 2015 album "25," known for its emotional vocals and themes of heartbreak and letting go.
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C.
Seeing in the Dark
"Seeing in the Dark" is a popular science book by Timothy Ferris that explores the history, culture, and personal experience of amateur astronomy and stargazing.
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D.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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E.
The Darkest Minds
The Darkest Minds is a 2018 dystopian science fiction film, based on Alexandra Bracken’s novel, about superpowered teenagers fighting a repressive government.
- 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: Near Dark Description of subject: Near Dark is a 1987 neo-Western horror film that blends vampire mythology with gritty Americana and is widely regarded as an influential cult classic.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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