Elvis (1979 film)
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Elvis (1979 film) is a 1979 biographical television movie directed by John Carpenter that chronicles the life and career of Elvis Presley, featuring Kurt Russell in the title role.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elvis (1979 television film) | 2 |
| Elvis (1979 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4036649 — 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: Elvis (1979 film) Context triple: [Kurt Russell, notableWork, Elvis (1979 film)]
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A.
Elvis (2022 film)
Elvis (2022 film) is a 2022 biographical musical drama directed by Baz Luhrmann that chronicles the life and career of Elvis Presley, featuring Tom Hanks as his manager Colonel Tom Parker.
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B.
Eight Elvises
Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol that features multiple overlapping images of Elvis Presley and is considered one of the most iconic works of Pop Art.
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C.
Elvis & Nixon
Elvis & Nixon is a 2016 comedy-drama film that humorously dramatizes the real-life 1970 meeting between Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon.
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D.
Elvis (1956 album)
Elvis (1956 album) is the second studio album by American singer Elvis Presley, featuring a mix of rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and country that helped cement his early popularity and influence in popular music.
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E.
Great Characters Edition Elvis Presley
Great Characters Edition Elvis Presley is a special-edition writing instrument from Montblanc’s Great Characters series that pays tribute to the life, style, and cultural impact of Elvis Presley.
- 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: Elvis (1979 film) Target entity description: Elvis (1979 film) is a 1979 biographical television movie directed by John Carpenter that chronicles the life and career of Elvis Presley, featuring Kurt Russell in the title role.
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A.
Elvis (2022 film)
Elvis (2022 film) is a 2022 biographical musical drama directed by Baz Luhrmann that chronicles the life and career of Elvis Presley, featuring Tom Hanks as his manager Colonel Tom Parker.
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B.
Eight Elvises
Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol that features multiple overlapping images of Elvis Presley and is considered one of the most iconic works of Pop Art.
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C.
Elvis & Nixon
Elvis & Nixon is a 2016 comedy-drama film that humorously dramatizes the real-life 1970 meeting between Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon.
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D.
Elvis (1956 album)
Elvis (1956 album) is the second studio album by American singer Elvis Presley, featuring a mix of rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and country that helped cement his early popularity and influence in popular music.
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E.
Great Characters Edition Elvis Presley
Great Characters Edition Elvis Presley is a special-edition writing instrument from Montblanc’s Great Characters series that pays tribute to the life, style, and cultural impact of Elvis Presley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
biographical film ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Donald M. Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
Graceland
ⓘ
Las Vegas performances of Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| director | John Carpenter ⓘ |
| distributedBy | American Broadcasting Company ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Patrick McMahon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Conrad ⓘ |
| filmingFormat | color ⓘ |
| genre | biographical drama ⓘ |
| hasGenre | musical biopic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joe Renzetti ⓘ |
| notableFor | early collaboration between John Carpenter and Kurt Russell ⓘ |
| originalMedium | television ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| portrays |
career of Elvis Presley
ⓘ
personal life of Elvis Presley ⓘ rise of Elvis Presley to fame ⓘ |
| producer |
Anthony Yerkovich
ⓘ
Robert B. Radnitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 150 minutes ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ |
| starring |
Bing Russell
ⓘ
Ed Begley Jr. ⓘ Pat Hingle ⓘ Season Hubley ⓘ Shelley Winters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject | Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| titleRolePlayedBy | Kurt Russell ⓘ |
| writer |
Anthony Lawrence
ⓘ
James Lee Barrett ⓘ Robert Boris ⓘ |
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: Elvis (1979 film) Description of subject: Elvis (1979 film) is a 1979 biographical television movie directed by John Carpenter that chronicles the life and career of Elvis Presley, featuring Kurt Russell in the title role.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elvis (1979 television film)
this entity surface form:
Elvis (1979 television film)