Matchstick Men
E365482
Matchstick Men is a 2003 crime comedy-drama film directed by Ridley Scott about a phobic con artist whose life is upended when he unexpectedly meets a teenage daughter he never knew he had.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matchstick Men canonical | 7 |
| Matchstick Men (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3514259 — 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: Matchstick Men Context triple: [Sam Rockwell, notableWork, Matchstick Men]
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A.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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B.
Chelsea Hotel #2
"Chelsea Hotel #2" is a folk song by Leonard Cohen, best known for its intimate, reflective lyrics about a brief love affair at New York’s Chelsea Hotel.
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C.
Razorblade Suitcase
Razorblade Suitcase is the second studio album by British rock band Bush, known for its dark, grunge-influenced sound and introspective lyrics.
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D.
Nightwood
Nightwood is a modernist novel by Djuna Barnes, renowned for its experimental style and pioneering portrayal of queer relationships in early 20th-century literature.
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E.
Stingo
Stingo is the young Southern writer and narrator in William Styron’s novel "Sophie’s Choice," through whose perspective the tragic story unfolds.
- 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: Matchstick Men Target entity description: Matchstick Men is a 2003 crime comedy-drama film directed by Ridley Scott about a phobic con artist whose life is upended when he unexpectedly meets a teenage daughter he never knew he had.
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A.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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B.
Chelsea Hotel #2
"Chelsea Hotel #2" is a folk song by Leonard Cohen, best known for its intimate, reflective lyrics about a brief love affair at New York’s Chelsea Hotel.
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C.
Razorblade Suitcase
Razorblade Suitcase is the second studio album by British rock band Bush, known for its dark, grunge-influenced sound and introspective lyrics.
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D.
Nightwood
Nightwood is a modernist novel by Djuna Barnes, renowned for its experimental style and pioneering portrayal of queer relationships in early 20th-century literature.
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E.
Stingo
Stingo is the young Southern writer and narrator in William Styron’s novel "Sophie’s Choice," through whose perspective the tragic story unfolds.
- 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: Matchstick Men Description of subject: Matchstick Men is a 2003 crime comedy-drama film directed by Ridley Scott about a phobic con artist whose life is upended when he unexpectedly meets a teenage daughter he never knew he had.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ridley Scott
this entity surface form:
Matchstick Men (novel)