Choke
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"Choke" is a dark comedy-drama film based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel, following a sex-addicted con artist who fakes choking in restaurants to scam Good Samaritans while grappling with his troubled past and relationship with his ailing mother.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Choke canonical | 6 |
| Choke (2008 film) | 1 |
| Choke (novel) | 1 |
| Choke by Chuck Palahniuk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3514265 — 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: Choke Context triple: [Sam Rockwell, notableWork, Choke]
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A.
Sucker
Sucker is a 2015 Australian comedy film about a teenage conman who becomes entangled with a charismatic swindler and his enigmatic daughter.
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B.
Sucker
"Sucker" is a 2019 upbeat pop single by the Jonas Brothers that marked their high-profile comeback and became a chart-topping hit.
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C.
Bad Chopper
Bad Chopper is a punk rock band fronted by former Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone, known for carrying forward the classic punk sound.
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D.
Ossuccio
Ossuccio is a small lakeside locality on the western shore of Lake Como in northern Italy, known for its scenic setting opposite the historic Isola Comacina.
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E.
Stinker
Stinker is a derisive nickname given to the character Gollum in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, particularly in The Lord of the Rings.
- 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: Choke Target entity description: "Choke" is a dark comedy-drama film based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel, following a sex-addicted con artist who fakes choking in restaurants to scam Good Samaritans while grappling with his troubled past and relationship with his ailing mother.
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A.
Sucker
Sucker is a 2015 Australian comedy film about a teenage conman who becomes entangled with a charismatic swindler and his enigmatic daughter.
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B.
Sucker
"Sucker" is a 2019 upbeat pop single by the Jonas Brothers that marked their high-profile comeback and became a chart-topping hit.
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C.
Bad Chopper
Bad Chopper is a punk rock band fronted by former Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone, known for carrying forward the classic punk sound.
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D.
Ossuccio
Ossuccio is a small lakeside locality on the western shore of Lake Como in northern Italy, known for its scenic setting opposite the historic Isola Comacina.
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E.
Stinker
Stinker is a derisive nickname given to the character Gollum in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, particularly in The Lord of the Rings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Choke
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
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| authorOfSourceMaterial | Chuck Palahniuk ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Choke
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Choke (novel)
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| centralRelationship | Victor Mancini and his mother ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
dark comedy
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drama film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Victor Mancini ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Victor Mancini’s cons and personal struggles ⓘ |
| plotElement |
fakes choking in restaurants
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relationship with ailing mother ⓘ scams Good Samaritans ⓘ troubled past ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | con artist ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | sex addict ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialAuthor | Chuck Palahniuk ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialGenre | novel ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
emotional trauma
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family dysfunction ⓘ sex addiction ⓘ |
| theme |
addiction
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deception ⓘ identity ⓘ morality ⓘ mother–son relationship ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
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dramatic ⓘ |
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: Choke Description of subject: "Choke" is a dark comedy-drama film based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel, following a sex-addicted con artist who fakes choking in restaurants to scam Good Samaritans while grappling with his troubled past and relationship with his ailing mother.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Choke (2008 film)
this entity surface form:
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk