Crossbow
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"Crossbow" is a 2007 Australian short film written and directed by David Michôd, known for its stylized portrayal of a troubled boy and his family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crossbow canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2850117 — 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: Crossbow Context triple: [David Michôd, notableWork, Crossbow]
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A.
Crossbow
Crossbow is a type of ranged weapon that uses a horizontal bow mounted on a stock to shoot projectiles called bolts or quarrels.
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B.
Gandiva bow
The Gandiva bow is the legendary celestial weapon of the hero Arjuna in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for its immense power and divine origin.
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C.
Barrow-blade
Barrow-blade is an enchanted sword from the Barrow-downs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for being carried by Samwise Gamgee during the quest of the Fellowship of the Ring.
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D.
Cannon
Cannon is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals across entertainment, sports, and public life.
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E.
Double-Barreled Cannon
The Double-Barreled Cannon is a unique and historically notable Civil War–era artillery piece designed with two parallel barrels intended to fire chained cannonballs simultaneously.
- 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: Crossbow Target entity description: "Crossbow" is a 2007 Australian short film written and directed by David Michôd, known for its stylized portrayal of a troubled boy and his family.
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A.
Crossbow
Crossbow is a type of ranged weapon that uses a horizontal bow mounted on a stock to shoot projectiles called bolts or quarrels.
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B.
Gandiva bow
The Gandiva bow is the legendary celestial weapon of the hero Arjuna in the Indian epic Mahabharata, renowned for its immense power and divine origin.
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C.
Barrow-blade
Barrow-blade is an enchanted sword from the Barrow-downs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, notable for being carried by Samwise Gamgee during the quest of the Fellowship of the Ring.
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D.
Cannon
Cannon is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals across entertainment, sports, and public life.
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E.
Double-Barreled Cannon
The Double-Barreled Cannon is a unique and historically notable Civil War–era artillery piece designed with two parallel barrels intended to fire chained cannonballs simultaneously.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian film
ⓘ
short film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| depicts | suburban life ⓘ |
| director | David Michôd ⓘ |
| format | short film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
short drama ⓘ |
| hasScreenplayBy | David Michôd ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
adolescence
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ |
| hasWriter | David Michôd ⓘ |
| isEarlyWorkOf | David Michôd ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | family dynamics ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | stylized portrayal ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFilmographyOf | David Michôd ⓘ |
| portrays |
dysfunctional family
ⓘ
troubled boy ⓘ |
| productionCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| runtime | short ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Michôd ⓘ |
| title | Crossbow ⓘ |
| writer | David Michôd ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 2007 ⓘ |
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: Crossbow Description of subject: "Crossbow" is a 2007 Australian short film written and directed by David Michôd, known for its stylized portrayal of a troubled boy and his family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.