Billion Dollar Brain
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Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British spy film in the Harry Palmer series, directed by Ken Russell and starring Michael Caine as the bespectacled secret agent.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billion Dollar Brain canonical | 3 |
| Billion-Dollar Brain | 2 |
| Billion Dollar Brain film | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4916120 — 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: Billion Dollar Brain Context triple: [Harry Saltzman, produced, Billion Dollar Brain]
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A.
The big brain
The big brain is a chapter from Susan Blackmore's book "The Meme Machine" that explores how human intelligence and large brains evolved in connection with the spread and competition of memes.
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B.
Billions and Billions
Billions and Billions is a posthumously published collection of essays by astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan that explores science, philosophy, and humanity’s future.
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C.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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D.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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E.
The Genius
"The Genius" is a 1915 novel by American naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser that follows the turbulent life and career of a gifted but morally conflicted artist.
- 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: Billion Dollar Brain Target entity description: Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British spy film in the Harry Palmer series, directed by Ken Russell and starring Michael Caine as the bespectacled secret agent.
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A.
The big brain
The big brain is a chapter from Susan Blackmore's book "The Meme Machine" that explores how human intelligence and large brains evolved in connection with the spread and competition of memes.
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B.
Billions and Billions
Billions and Billions is a posthumously published collection of essays by astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan that explores science, philosophy, and humanity’s future.
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C.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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D.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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E.
The Genius
"The Genius" is a 1915 novel by American naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser that follows the turbulent life and career of a gifted but morally conflicted artist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British film
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film ⓘ spy film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Billion-Dollar Brain
NERFINISHED
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Len Deighton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Harry Palmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Billy Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Ken Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | United Artists ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | international ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alan Osbiston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1960s British cinema ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Harry Palmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Helsinki
NERFINISHED
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Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows | Funeral in Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Cold War film
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spy film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasProp | bespectacled secret agent protagonist ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Harry Palmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorPlays | Michael Caine as Harry Palmer ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | secret agent ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Rodney Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFeature | third film to feature Harry Palmer ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Harry Palmer film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes | Bullet to Beijing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Harry Saltzman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Lowndes Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1967-12-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 111 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John McGrath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Cold War
NERFINISHED
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Finland NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Ed Begley
NERFINISHED
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Françoise Dorléac NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Malden NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Caine NERFINISHED ⓘ Oskar Homolka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Billion Dollar Brain Description of subject: Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British spy film in the Harry Palmer series, directed by Ken Russell and starring Michael Caine as the bespectacled secret agent.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Billion-Dollar Brain
this entity surface form:
Billion-Dollar Brain
this entity surface form:
Billion Dollar Brain film