Serpico
E281071
Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Serpico canonical | 17 |
| Serpico (1973 film) | 3 |
| "Serpico" (μουσική ταινίας) | 1 |
| Serpico (1973 biography by Peter Maas) | 1 |
| Serpico (book subject) | 1 |
| Serpico (book) | 1 |
| Serpico franchise | 1 |
| Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System (autobiography) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2576448 — 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: Serpico Context triple: [Al Pacino, notableWork, Serpico]
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A.
Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a 1993 crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino as a reformed Puerto Rican gangster trying to escape his violent past in New York City.
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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.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a 2003 crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, known for its dark exploration of childhood trauma and moral ambiguity in a working-class Boston neighborhood.
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D.
The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film about federal agent Eliot Ness’s battle against gangster Al Capone during Prohibition-era Chicago.
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E.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film about a hijacked New York City subway train, renowned for its tense pacing, gritty realism, and influential status in the heist genre.
- 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: Serpico Target entity description: Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
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A.
Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a 1993 crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino as a reformed Puerto Rican gangster trying to escape his violent past in New York City.
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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.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a 2003 crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, known for its dark exploration of childhood trauma and moral ambiguity in a working-class Boston neighborhood.
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D.
The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film about federal agent Eliot Ness’s battle against gangster Al Capone during Prohibition-era Chicago.
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E.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film about a hijacked New York City subway train, renowned for its tense pacing, gritty realism, and influential status in the heist genre.
- 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: Serpico Description of subject: Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Serpico (book subject)
this entity surface form:
Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System (autobiography)
this entity surface form:
Serpico (1973 film)
this entity surface form:
Serpico (1973 biography by Peter Maas)
subject surface form:
Sidney Lumet
this entity surface form:
"Serpico" (μουσική ταινίας)
this entity surface form:
Serpico (1973 film)
this entity surface form:
Serpico (1973 film)
this entity surface form:
Serpico franchise