Ask the Dust
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Ask the Dust is a 2006 romantic drama film adaptation of John Fante’s novel, starring Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell in Depression-era Los Angeles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ask the Dust canonical | 5 |
| Ask the Dust (1939 novel) | 1 |
| Ask the Dust (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3290083 — 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: Ask the Dust Context triple: [Salma Hayek, notableWork, Ask the Dust]
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A.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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B.
The Place of Dead Roads
The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
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C.
Black Rock Sands
Black Rock Sands is a wide, sandy beach on the coast of North Wales, popular for its scenic views, vehicle access to the shore, and proximity to the town of Porthmadog.
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D.
The Dead
"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.
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E.
The Dead
The Dead was a post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead, featuring surviving members of the band performing their classic repertoire in the 2000s.
- 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: Ask the Dust Target entity description: Ask the Dust is a 2006 romantic drama film adaptation of John Fante’s novel, starring Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell in Depression-era Los Angeles.
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A.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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B.
The Place of Dead Roads
The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
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C.
Black Rock Sands
Black Rock Sands is a wide, sandy beach on the coast of North Wales, popular for its scenic views, vehicle access to the shore, and proximity to the town of Porthmadog.
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D.
The Dead
"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.
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E.
The Dead
The Dead was a post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead, featuring surviving members of the band performing their classic repertoire in the 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Ask the Dust Description of subject: Ask the Dust is a 2006 romantic drama film adaptation of John Fante’s novel, starring Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell in Depression-era Los Angeles.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ask the Dust
linked to: Ask the Dust