Kill the Messenger
E365971
Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb’s investigation into CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kill the Messenger canonical | 10 |
| Kill the Messenger (2014 film) | 2 |
| Kill the Messenger (franchise) | 1 |
| Killing the Messenger | 1 |
| The Informer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3527368 — 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: Kill the Messenger Context triple: [Michael Cuesta, notableWork, Kill the Messenger]
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A.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by Chris Rock that showcases his sharp, politically charged observational humor across performances in New York, London, and Johannesburg.
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B.
The Message
"The Message" is a pioneering 1982 hip-hop track by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, produced and co-written by Sylvia Robinson, renowned for its stark social commentary on urban life.
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C.
Our Kind of Traitor
Our Kind of Traitor is a contemporary spy novel by John le Carré that follows an ordinary British couple drawn into the dangerous world of Russian money laundering and international espionage.
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D.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England, providing news, events, and information relevant to the area.
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E.
The Messenger
The Messenger was an influential early 20th-century African American socialist magazine that advocated for civil rights, labor organizing, and racial equality.
- 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: Kill the Messenger Target entity description: Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb’s investigation into CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
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A.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by Chris Rock that showcases his sharp, politically charged observational humor across performances in New York, London, and Johannesburg.
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B.
The Message
"The Message" is a pioneering 1982 hip-hop track by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, produced and co-written by Sylvia Robinson, renowned for its stark social commentary on urban life.
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C.
Our Kind of Traitor
Our Kind of Traitor is a contemporary spy novel by John le Carré that follows an ordinary British couple drawn into the dangerous world of Russian money laundering and international espionage.
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D.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England, providing news, events, and information relevant to the area.
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E.
The Messenger
The Messenger was an influential early 20th-century African American socialist magazine that advocated for civil rights, labor organizing, and racial equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Kill the Messenger Description of subject: Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb’s investigation into CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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