Killing Them Softly
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Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American crime film, based on George V. Higgins' novel "Cogan's Trade," that follows a hitman investigating a heist on a mob-protected poker game.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Killing Them Softly canonical | 19 |
| Killing Them Softly (2012 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3043356 — 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: Killing Them Softly Context triple: [James Gandolfini, notableWork, Killing Them Softly]
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A.
Biutiful
Biutiful is a 2010 Spanish-language drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, featuring Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man struggling to care for his children amid the criminal underworld of Barcelona.
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B.
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is a 2014 neo-noir thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an amoral crime videographer prowling Los Angeles for sensational footage.
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C.
Justified
Justified is an American neo-Western crime drama television series centered on U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens as he enforces his own brand of justice in his rural Kentucky hometown.
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D.
A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year is a 2014 crime drama film set in 1981 New York City that follows an ambitious immigrant businessman struggling to protect his family and company amid rampant corruption and violence.
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E.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet that follows two brothers whose plan to rob their parents’ jewelry store spirals into tragedy.
- 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: Killing Them Softly Target entity description: Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American crime film, based on George V. Higgins' novel "Cogan's Trade," that follows a hitman investigating a heist on a mob-protected poker game.
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A.
Biutiful
Biutiful is a 2010 Spanish-language drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, featuring Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man struggling to care for his children amid the criminal underworld of Barcelona.
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B.
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is a 2014 neo-noir thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an amoral crime videographer prowling Los Angeles for sensational footage.
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C.
Justified
Justified is an American neo-Western crime drama television series centered on U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens as he enforces his own brand of justice in his rural Kentucky hometown.
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D.
A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year is a 2014 crime drama film set in 1981 New York City that follows an ambitious immigrant businessman struggling to protect his family and company amid rampant corruption and violence.
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E.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet that follows two brothers whose plan to rob their parents’ jewelry store spirals into tragedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Killing Them Softly Description of subject: Killing Them Softly is a 2012 American crime film, based on George V. Higgins' novel "Cogan's Trade," that follows a hitman investigating a heist on a mob-protected poker game.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John
linked to: Killing Them Softly
subject linked to:
Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt
subject linked to:
America is not a country. It's just a business.