The Illusionist
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The Illusionist is a 2006 period mystery drama film about a master magician in early 20th-century Vienna who uses his extraordinary skills to challenge social hierarchies and unravel a complex romantic and political intrigue.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Illusionist canonical | 8 |
| The Illusionist (2006 film) | 4 |
| Eisenheim the Illusionist | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2783081 — 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 Illusionist Context triple: [Paul Giamatti, notableWork, The Illusionist]
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A.
The Prestige
The Prestige is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan that follows the intense rivalry between two Victorian-era magicians obsessed with outdoing each other.
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B.
The Magic Show
The Magic Show is a 1974 Broadway musical that blends stage magic with a pop-infused score, helping launch composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz’s early career success.
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C.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 Wes Anderson comedy-drama film known for its stylized visuals, ensemble cast, and whimsical yet poignant storytelling set in a fictional European hotel between the World Wars.
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D.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam, known for its surreal visual style, mythic storytelling, and for being Heath Ledger’s final screen performance, completed with the help of Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.
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E.
The Prestige (novel)
The Prestige (novel) is a 1995 epistolary science fiction and fantasy book by Christopher Priest about two rival stage magicians in Victorian England whose escalating obsession with outdoing each other leads to dark and uncanny consequences.
- 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 Illusionist Target entity description: The Illusionist is a 2006 period mystery drama film about a master magician in early 20th-century Vienna who uses his extraordinary skills to challenge social hierarchies and unravel a complex romantic and political intrigue.
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A.
The Prestige
The Prestige is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan that follows the intense rivalry between two Victorian-era magicians obsessed with outdoing each other.
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B.
The Magic Show
The Magic Show is a 1974 Broadway musical that blends stage magic with a pop-infused score, helping launch composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz’s early career success.
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C.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 Wes Anderson comedy-drama film known for its stylized visuals, ensemble cast, and whimsical yet poignant storytelling set in a fictional European hotel between the World Wars.
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D.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam, known for its surreal visual style, mythic storytelling, and for being Heath Ledger’s final screen performance, completed with the help of Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell.
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E.
The Prestige (novel)
The Prestige (novel) is a 1995 epistolary science fiction and fantasy book by Christopher Priest about two rival stage magicians in Victorian England whose escalating obsession with outdoing each other leads to dark and uncanny consequences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Illusionist Description of subject: The Illusionist is a 2006 period mystery drama film about a master magician in early 20th-century Vienna who uses his extraordinary skills to challenge social hierarchies and unravel a complex romantic and political intrigue.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Illusionist (2006 film)
this entity surface form:
The Illusionist (2006 film)
this entity surface form:
Eisenheim the Illusionist
this entity surface form:
The Illusionist (2006 film)
subject surface form:
Eddie Marsan