The Counselor
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The Counselor is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy, following a lawyer who becomes entangled in a dangerous drug-trafficking scheme.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Counselor canonical | 10 |
| The Counselor (2013 film) | 2 |
| The Counselor franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3121274 — 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 Counselor Context triple: [Pietro Scalia, notableWork, The Counselor]
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A.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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B.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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C.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Transportation.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is an informal, gendered counterpart term to "Madam Secretary," typically used to address or refer to a male government official holding a secretary-level position.
- 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 Counselor Target entity description: The Counselor is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy, following a lawyer who becomes entangled in a dangerous drug-trafficking scheme.
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A.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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B.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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C.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of State.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is an informal, gendered counterpart term to "Madam Secretary," typically used to address or refer to a male government official holding a secretary-level position.
- 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: The Counselor Description of subject: The Counselor is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy, following a lawyer who becomes entangled in a dangerous drug-trafficking scheme.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ridley Scott
this entity surface form:
The Counselor (2013 film)
this entity surface form:
The Counselor (2013 film)
this entity surface form:
The Counselor franchise