The Invention of Lying
E374579
The Invention of Lying is a 2009 high-concept romantic comedy film set in a world where no one can lie until one man discovers deception, leading to profound social and personal consequences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Invention of Lying canonical | 6 |
| The Invention of Lying (story contribution) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3630181 — 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: The Invention of Lying Context triple: [Louis C.K., starredIn, The Invention of Lying]
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A.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is a seminal collection of feminist essays and speeches by poet and theorist Adrienne Rich that explores the politics of gender, language, and power.
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B.
the Father of Lies
The Father of Lies is a biblical epithet for the Devil, emphasizing his role as the ultimate deceiver and source of falsehood.
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C.
The Liar
"The Liar" is a painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that exemplifies his vivid, jazz-age depictions of Black urban life and social interaction.
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D.
The Liar
"The Liar" is a comic novel by Stephen Fry that follows a brilliant but deceitful young man entangled in espionage, sexuality, and storytelling.
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E.
A Liar’s Autobiography
A Liar’s Autobiography is a surreal, comedic memoir by Monty Python member Graham Chapman that blends fact and fiction to chronicle his life and career.
- 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: The Invention of Lying Target entity description: The Invention of Lying is a 2009 high-concept romantic comedy film set in a world where no one can lie until one man discovers deception, leading to profound social and personal consequences.
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A.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is a seminal collection of feminist essays and speeches by poet and theorist Adrienne Rich that explores the politics of gender, language, and power.
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B.
the Father of Lies
The Father of Lies is a biblical epithet for the Devil, emphasizing his role as the ultimate deceiver and source of falsehood.
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C.
The Liar
"The Liar" is a painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that exemplifies his vivid, jazz-age depictions of Black urban life and social interaction.
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D.
The Liar
"The Liar" is a comic novel by Stephen Fry that follows a brilliant but deceitful young man entangled in espionage, sexuality, and storytelling.
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E.
A Liar’s Autobiography
A Liar’s Autobiography is a surreal, comedic memoir by Monty Python member Graham Chapman that blends fact and fiction to chronicle his life and career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: The Invention of Lying Description of subject: The Invention of Lying is a 2009 high-concept romantic comedy film set in a world where no one can lie until one man discovers deception, leading to profound social and personal consequences.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.