Hard Eight
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Hard Eight is a 1996 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, featuring Philip Baker Hall as a seasoned gambler who mentors a down-on-his-luck young man in the world of casino hustling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hard Eight canonical | 8 |
| Hard Eight (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3810231 — 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: Hard Eight Context triple: [Philip Baker Hall, knownFor, Hard Eight]
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A.
8 Seconds
8 Seconds is a 1994 biographical drama film about champion bull rider Lane Frost and the world of professional rodeo.
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B.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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C.
Hit Man
Hit Man is a 2023 darkly comedic crime thriller film directed by Richard Linklater, loosely based on a true story about a mild-mannered professor who becomes an undercover fake contract killer for the police.
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D.
Blow Out
Blow Out is a 1981 neo-noir political thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, known for its suspenseful blend of conspiracy, sound design, and psychological tension.
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E.
Live by Night
Live by Night is a 2016 American crime drama film, based on Dennis Lehane’s novel, that follows a Prohibition-era gangster’s rise in the world of organized crime.
- 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: Hard Eight Target entity description: Hard Eight is a 1996 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, featuring Philip Baker Hall as a seasoned gambler who mentors a down-on-his-luck young man in the world of casino hustling.
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A.
8 Seconds
8 Seconds is a 1994 biographical drama film about champion bull rider Lane Frost and the world of professional rodeo.
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B.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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C.
Hit Man
Hit Man is a 2023 darkly comedic crime thriller film directed by Richard Linklater, loosely based on a true story about a mild-mannered professor who becomes an undercover fake contract killer for the police.
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D.
Blow Out
Blow Out is a 1981 neo-noir political thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, known for its suspenseful blend of conspiracy, sound design, and psychological tension.
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E.
Live by Night
Live by Night is a 2016 American crime drama film, based on Dennis Lehane’s novel, that follows a Prohibition-era gangster’s rise in the world of organized crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Hard Eight Description of subject: Hard Eight is a 1996 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, featuring Philip Baker Hall as a seasoned gambler who mentors a down-on-his-luck young man in the world of casino hustling.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hard Eight (score)
subject surface form:
Philip Baker Hall