Timecop
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Timecop is a 1994 science fiction action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a time-traveling police officer who must prevent criminals from altering the past for personal gain.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Timecop canonical | 6 |
| Time Cop | 1 |
| Timecop (TV series) | 1 |
| Timecop (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3164967 — 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: Timecop Context triple: [Bruce McGill, notableWork, Timecop]
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A.
Timescape
Timescape is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that explores time communication and ecological catastrophe through a hard-science, character-driven narrative.
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B.
Nick of Time
"Nick of Time" is a classic episode of the original The Twilight Zone series in which a superstitious man becomes obsessed with a fortune-telling machine in a small-town diner.
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C.
The Time Meddler
The Time Meddler is a 1965 Doctor Who serial that introduced the recurring villain known as the Meddling Monk, one of the earliest renegade Time Lords encountered by the Doctor.
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D.
Future World
Future World was a themed land at EPCOT in Walt Disney World focused on technology, innovation, and visions of the future, featuring pavilions sponsored by major corporations.
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E.
Non-Stop
Non-Stop is a 2014 action-thriller film in which Liam Neeson plays an air marshal trying to stop a mysterious hijacker during a transatlantic flight.
- 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: Timecop Target entity description: Timecop is a 1994 science fiction action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a time-traveling police officer who must prevent criminals from altering the past for personal gain.
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A.
Timescape
Timescape is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that explores time communication and ecological catastrophe through a hard-science, character-driven narrative.
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B.
Nick of Time
"Nick of Time" is a classic episode of the original The Twilight Zone series in which a superstitious man becomes obsessed with a fortune-telling machine in a small-town diner.
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C.
The Time Meddler
The Time Meddler is a 1965 Doctor Who serial that introduced the recurring villain known as the Meddling Monk, one of the earliest renegade Time Lords encountered by the Doctor.
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D.
Future World
Future World was a themed land at EPCOT in Walt Disney World focused on technology, innovation, and visions of the future, featuring pavilions sponsored by major corporations.
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E.
Non-Stop
"Non-Stop" is the fast-paced, act-ending ensemble number from the Broadway musical *Hamilton* that chronicles Alexander Hamilton’s relentless work ethic and rise in early American politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Timecop Description of subject: Timecop is a 1994 science fiction action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a time-traveling police officer who must prevent criminals from altering the past for personal gain.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Timecop (film)
this entity surface form:
Timecop (TV series)