Marathon Man (1976 film)
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Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marathon Man | 17 |
| Marathon Man (1976 film) canonical | 3 |
| Marathon Man (novel) | 2 |
| Marathon Man (1974 novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T278825 — 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: Marathon Man (1976 film) Context triple: [Laurence Olivier, notableWork, Marathon Man (1976 film)]
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A.
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film about a romance novelist who embarks on a perilous quest in Colombia, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
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B.
The Tender Trap
The Tender Trap is a 1955 romantic comedy film starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name.
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C.
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun is a James Bond spy novel featuring 007’s mission to confront the deadly assassin Francisco Scaramanga in the Caribbean.
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D.
The Accused
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film that powerfully examines sexual assault and victim-blaming, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Doctor X
Doctor X is a 1932 pre-Code horror mystery film noted for its early use of two-color Technicolor and starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill.
- 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: Marathon Man (1976 film) Target entity description: Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
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A.
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film about a romance novelist who embarks on a perilous quest in Colombia, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
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B.
The Tender Trap
The Tender Trap is a 1955 romantic comedy film starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name.
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C.
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun is a James Bond spy novel featuring 007’s mission to confront the deadly assassin Francisco Scaramanga in the Caribbean.
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D.
The Accused
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film that powerfully examines sexual assault and victim-blaming, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Doctor X
Doctor X is a 1932 pre-Code horror mystery film noted for its early use of two-color Technicolor and starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill.
- 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: Marathon Man (1976 film) Description of subject: Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Marathon Man (1974 novel)
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Marathon Man (novel)
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