The Boys from Brazil (1978 film)
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The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) is a 1978 science fiction thriller about a Nazi hunter uncovering a sinister cloning plot involving Josef Mengele, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boys from Brazil | 7 |
| The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) canonical | 6 |
| The Boys from Brazil (1978 film, producer) | 1 |
| The Boys from Brazil (franchise) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379509 — 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 Boys from Brazil (1978 film) Context triple: [Gregory Peck, notableWork, The Boys from Brazil (1978 film)]
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A.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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B.
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime film, based on James Ellroy’s novel about the infamous 1947 Los Angeles murder, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Josh Hartnett.
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C.
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological horror-thriller film centered on FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s pursuit of a serial killer with the help of imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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D.
House with the Heads
House with the Heads is a historic canal house in Amsterdam, renowned for its ornate façade adorned with sculpted heads and its significance in the city’s architectural heritage.
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E.
Marathon Man (1976 film)
Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
- 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 Boys from Brazil (1978 film) Target entity description: The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) is a 1978 science fiction thriller about a Nazi hunter uncovering a sinister cloning plot involving Josef Mengele, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier.
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A.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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B.
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime film, based on James Ellroy’s novel about the infamous 1947 Los Angeles murder, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Josh Hartnett.
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C.
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological horror-thriller film centered on FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s pursuit of a serial killer with the help of imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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D.
House with the Heads
House with the Heads is a historic canal house in Amsterdam, renowned for its ornate façade adorned with sculpted heads and its significance in the city’s architectural heritage.
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E.
Marathon Man (1976 film)
Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
- 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: The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) Description of subject: The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) is a 1978 science fiction thriller about a Nazi hunter uncovering a sinister cloning plot involving Josef Mengele, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier.
Referenced by (15)
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The Boys from Brazil
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The Boys from Brazil (franchise)
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The Boys from Brazil (1978 film, producer)
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