On the Beach
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On the Beach is a 1959 post-apocalyptic drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting the aftermath of nuclear war and featuring Fred Astaire in a rare serious, non-musical role.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| On the Beach canonical | 17 |
| On the Beach (1959 film) | 5 |
| On the Beach (1957 novel) | 1 |
| On the Beach (1959 film score) | 1 |
| On the Beach (2000 film) | 1 |
| On the Beach (2000 miniseries) | 1 |
| On the Beach (novel) | 1 |
| “On the Beach” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341813 — 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: On the Beach Context triple: [Fred Astaire, notableWork, On the Beach]
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A.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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B.
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is a tranquil memorial in New York City's Central Park dedicated to John Lennon, featuring the iconic "Imagine" mosaic and landscaped gardens.
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C.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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D.
Boardwalk Beach
Boardwalk Beach is a popular coastal recreation area in Sandwich, Massachusetts, known for its scenic boardwalk, sandy shoreline, and views of Cape Cod Bay.
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E.
Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream is a posthumously published novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows the life of an American artist across three distinct phases set in the Caribbean and World War II.
- 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: On the Beach Target entity description: On the Beach is a 1959 post-apocalyptic drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting the aftermath of nuclear war and featuring Fred Astaire in a rare serious, non-musical role.
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A.
Bluewater
Bluewater is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure centre located in Kent, England.
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B.
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is a tranquil memorial in New York City's Central Park dedicated to John Lennon, featuring the iconic "Imagine" mosaic and landscaped gardens.
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C.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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D.
Boardwalk Beach
Boardwalk Beach is a popular coastal recreation area in Sandwich, Massachusetts, known for its scenic boardwalk, sandy shoreline, and views of Cape Cod Bay.
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E.
Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream is a posthumously published novel by Ernest Hemingway that follows the life of an American artist across three distinct phases set in the Caribbean and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: On the Beach Description of subject: On the Beach is a 1959 post-apocalyptic drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting the aftermath of nuclear war and featuring Fred Astaire in a rare serious, non-musical role.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (novel)
subject surface form:
Frederick Austerlitz
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1959 film score)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (2000 miniseries)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (2000 film)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1957 novel)
this entity surface form:
On the Beach (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
“On the Beach”