Accident (screenplay)
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Accident (screenplay) is a 1967 film script by Harold Pinter, adapted from Nicholas Mosley’s novel, known for its elliptical dialogue and exploration of moral ambiguity and repressed desire.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Accident | 5 |
| Accident (novel) | 2 |
| Accident (1967 film) | 1 |
| Accident (screenplay) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2745385 — 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: Accident (screenplay) Context triple: [Harold Pinter, notableWork, Accident (screenplay)]
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A.
The Accident
The Accident is a semi-autobiographical novel by Elie Wiesel that explores trauma, survival, and identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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B.
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston, renowned for its gritty, realistic portrayal of a meticulously planned jewel heist and its influence on the heist genre.
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C.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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D.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir crime drama notable for its exploration of racial tension and its starring role by Harry Belafonte.
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E.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama road film directed by Steven Spielberg and noted for its blend of suspense, dark humor, and social commentary.
- 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: Accident (screenplay) Target entity description: Accident (screenplay) is a 1967 film script by Harold Pinter, adapted from Nicholas Mosley’s novel, known for its elliptical dialogue and exploration of moral ambiguity and repressed desire.
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A.
The Accident
The Accident is a semi-autobiographical novel by Elie Wiesel that explores trauma, survival, and identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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B.
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston, renowned for its gritty, realistic portrayal of a meticulously planned jewel heist and its influence on the heist genre.
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C.
Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, known for its environmental themes and Bruce Dern’s portrayal of a botanist protecting Earth’s last surviving plant life in space.
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D.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir crime drama notable for its exploration of racial tension and its starring role by Harry Belafonte.
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E.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama road film directed by Steven Spielberg and noted for its blend of suspense, dark humor, and social commentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film script
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screenplay ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Accident (screenplay)
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surface form:
Accident (novel)
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| adaptationType | novel-to-film adaptation ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | British New Wave ⓘ |
| author | Harold Pinter ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Accident (screenplay)
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surface form:
Accident (novel)
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| basedOnAuthor |
Oswald Mosley
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surface form:
Nicholas Mosley
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| characterType |
students
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university academics ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dialogueStyle |
ambiguous
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economical ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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psychological drama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
elliptical dialogue
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exploration of moral ambiguity ⓘ exploration of repressed desire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | elliptical dialogue ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
flashbacks
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nonlinear structure ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre |
Harold Pinter
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surface form:
Harold Pinter screenplays
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| period | 1960s British cinema ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
The Go-Between
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surface form:
The Go-Between (screenplay)
The Servant (screenplay) ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Harold Pinter ⓘ |
| screenplayForFilm |
Accident (screenplay)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Accident (1967 film)
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| screenwriter | Harold Pinter ⓘ |
| setting |
England
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Oxford University milieu ⓘ |
| theme |
class and privilege
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guilt ⓘ infidelity ⓘ memory and subjectivity ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ repressed desire ⓘ sexual repression ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| title |
Accident (screenplay)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Accident
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| tone |
enigmatic
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melancholic ⓘ |
| yearWritten | 1967 ⓘ |
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: Accident (screenplay) Description of subject: Accident (screenplay) is a 1967 film script by Harold Pinter, adapted from Nicholas Mosley’s novel, known for its elliptical dialogue and exploration of moral ambiguity and repressed desire.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Accident
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Accident
this entity surface form:
Accident (novel)
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Accident (novel)
this entity surface form:
Accident (1967 film)
this entity surface form:
Accident
this entity surface form:
Accident
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Accident