Man on a Tightrope
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Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 Cold War-era drama film about a Czech circus troupe’s daring escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Man on a Tightrope canonical | 3 |
| Man on a Tightrope (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3201609 — 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: Man on a Tightrope Context triple: [Elia Kazan, directed, Man on a Tightrope]
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A.
Man on a Ledge
Man on a Ledge is a 2012 thriller film about an ex-cop threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel ledge as part of an elaborate heist and bid to prove his innocence.
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B.
Trapeze
Trapeze is a UK-based book imprint of the Orion Publishing Group known for publishing commercial fiction and non-fiction aimed at a broad, contemporary readership.
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C.
Bird on the Wire
"Bird on the Wire" is a widely acclaimed song by Leonard Cohen, known for its poetic lyrics and melancholic reflection on freedom, love, and personal redemption.
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D.
Auf dem Seil
Auf dem Seil is a novel by Hungarian-German author Terézia Mora that continues her exploration of identity, migration, and psychological complexity through the story of a woman navigating life between cultures.
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E.
Man on Wire
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film that chronicles Philippe Petit's daring 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.
- 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: Man on a Tightrope Target entity description: Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 Cold War-era drama film about a Czech circus troupe’s daring escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
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A.
Man on a Ledge
Man on a Ledge is a 2012 thriller film about an ex-cop threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel ledge as part of an elaborate heist and bid to prove his innocence.
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B.
Trapeze
Trapeze is a UK-based book imprint of the Orion Publishing Group known for publishing commercial fiction and non-fiction aimed at a broad, contemporary readership.
-
C.
Bird on the Wire
"Bird on the Wire" is a widely acclaimed song by Leonard Cohen, known for its poetic lyrics and melancholic reflection on freedom, love, and personal redemption.
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D.
Auf dem Seil
Auf dem Seil is a novel by Hungarian-German author Terézia Mora that continues her exploration of identity, migration, and psychological complexity through the story of a woman navigating life between cultures.
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E.
Man on Wire
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film that chronicles Philippe Petit's daring 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Man on a Tightrope Description of subject: Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 Cold War-era drama film about a Czech circus troupe’s daring escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elia Kazan
this entity surface form:
Man on a Tightrope (novel)