Identity Thief
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Identity Thief is a 2013 American comedy film starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, centered on a man whose life is upended when a woman steals his identity and credit cards.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Identity Thief canonical | 12 |
| Identity Thief universe | 1 |
| film "Identity Thief" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2983828 — 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: Identity Thief Context triple: [Seth Gordon, notableWork, Identity Thief]
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A.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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B.
Undercover
Undercover is a 1983 studio album by The Rolling Stones that blends rock with then-contemporary dance and new wave influences.
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C.
Mistaken Identity
Mistaken Identity is a 1981 pop-rock album by American singer Kim Carnes, best known for featuring her Grammy-winning hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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D.
The Fraud
The Fraud is a historical novel by Zadie Smith that intertwines a 19th-century literary household with the infamous Tichborne trial to explore truth, authorship, and identity in Victorian England.
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E.
The Defrauders
The Defrauders is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Mutaffifin, a chapter of the Qur’an that condemns fraudulent dealings and moral corruption.
- 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: Identity Thief Target entity description: Identity Thief is a 2013 American comedy film starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, centered on a man whose life is upended when a woman steals his identity and credit cards.
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A.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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B.
Undercover
Undercover is a 1983 studio album by The Rolling Stones that blends rock with then-contemporary dance and new wave influences.
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C.
Mistaken Identity
Mistaken Identity is a 1981 pop-rock album by American singer Kim Carnes, best known for featuring her Grammy-winning hit single "Bette Davis Eyes."
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D.
The Fraud
The Fraud is a historical novel by Zadie Smith that intertwines a 19th-century literary household with the infamous Tichborne trial to explore truth, authorship, and identity in Victorian England.
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E.
The Defrauders
The Defrauders is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Mutaffifin, a chapter of the Qur’an that condemns fraudulent dealings and moral corruption.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Identity Thief Description of subject: Identity Thief is a 2013 American comedy film starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, centered on a man whose life is upended when a woman steals his identity and credit cards.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tip "T.I." Harris
linked to: Identity Thief
subject linked to:
album "Compass"
subject linked to:
ericstonestreet
linked to: Identity Thief