Fail Safe
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Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film about an accidental U.S. nuclear strike order on the Soviet Union, directed by Sidney Lumet.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fail Safe canonical | 2 |
| Fail Safe (1964 film) | 1 |
| Fail-Safe | 1 |
| Fail-Safe (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2821547 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fail Safe Context triple: [Sidney Lumet, notableWork, Fail Safe]
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A.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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B.
A Choice of Weapons
"A Choice of Weapons" is Gordon Parks’s influential autobiographical work in which he reflects on his life, art, and use of the camera as a tool for social change.
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C.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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D.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
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E.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
- 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: Fail Safe Target entity description: Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film about an accidental U.S. nuclear strike order on the Soviet Union, directed by Sidney Lumet.
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A.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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B.
A Choice of Weapons
"A Choice of Weapons" is Gordon Parks’s influential autobiographical work in which he reflects on his life, art, and use of the camera as a tool for social change.
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C.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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D.
Sabotage
"Sabotage" is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, featuring an ensemble cast led by Arnold Schwarzenegger as members of an elite DEA task force.
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E.
Sabotage
Sabotage is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent," about a cinema owner secretly involved in a terrorist bombing plot in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Fail Safe Description of subject: Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film about an accidental U.S. nuclear strike order on the Soviet Union, directed by Sidney Lumet.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fail Safe (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
Fail-Safe