The Clinic (1982 film)
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The Clinic (1982 film) is an Australian comedy-drama set in a Melbourne venereal disease clinic, following the intersecting lives and personal struggles of its patients and staff.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Clinic (1982 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5195038 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Clinic (1982 film) Context triple: [Geoff Burton, notableWork, The Clinic (1982 film)]
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A.
The Agnew Clinic
The Agnew Clinic is a renowned 1889 realist painting by American artist Thomas Eakins depicting Dr. David Hayes Agnew performing surgery before medical students.
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B.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film directed by David Cronenberg about twin gynecologists whose identities and sanity unravel, in which Jill Hennessy appears in an early role.
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C.
Doctor X
Doctor X is a 1932 pre-Code horror mystery film noted for its early use of two-color Technicolor and starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill.
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D.
The Visit (1973)
The Visit (1973) is a musical adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play about a wealthy woman returning to her impoverished hometown seeking revenge, directed and produced by Harold Prince.
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E.
The Client (1994 film)
The Client is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham’s novel, following a young boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous mob-related legal case and the lawyer who tries to protect him.
- 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 Clinic (1982 film) Target entity description: The Clinic (1982 film) is an Australian comedy-drama set in a Melbourne venereal disease clinic, following the intersecting lives and personal struggles of its patients and staff.
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A.
The Agnew Clinic
The Agnew Clinic is a renowned 1889 realist painting by American artist Thomas Eakins depicting Dr. David Hayes Agnew performing surgery before medical students.
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B.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film directed by David Cronenberg about twin gynecologists whose identities and sanity unravel, in which Jill Hennessy appears in an early role.
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C.
Doctor X
Doctor X is a 1932 pre-Code horror mystery film noted for its early use of two-color Technicolor and starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill.
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D.
The Visit (1973)
The Visit (1973) is a musical adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play about a wealthy woman returning to her impoverished hometown seeking revenge, directed and produced by Harold Prince.
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E.
The Client (1994 film)
The Client is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham’s novel, following a young boy who becomes entangled in a dangerous mob-related legal case and the lawyer who tries to protect him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Tom Cowan ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmingLocation | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| director | David Stevens ⓘ |
| follows | intersecting lives of patients and staff ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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comedy-drama ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | feature film ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
human sexuality
ⓘ
personal relationships ⓘ sexual health ⓘ stigma ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
patients' personal struggles
ⓘ
staff members' personal struggles ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a sexually transmitted disease clinic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Le Tet ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Greg Millin ⓘ |
| setting | venereal disease clinic ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Melbourne ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Clinic (1982 film) Description of subject: The Clinic (1982 film) is an Australian comedy-drama set in a Melbourne venereal disease clinic, following the intersecting lives and personal struggles of its patients and staff.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.