Spider
E502216
"Spider" is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by David Cronenberg, in which Gabriel Byrne plays a key role in the story of a mentally disturbed man unraveling his traumatic past.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spider canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5192241 — 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: Spider Context triple: [Gabriel Byrne, notableWork, Spider]
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A.
Spider
Spider is a distributed storage engine for MariaDB that enables sharding and horizontal partitioning of tables across multiple servers.
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B.
Spider
Spider is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Elysium," a character who navigates a starkly divided future society to challenge its oppressive class system.
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C.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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D.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
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E.
the Universal Spider
The Universal Spider was the notorious nickname of King Louis XI of France, reflecting his reputation as a shrewd and manipulative political schemer who wove complex webs of intrigue across Europe.
- 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: Spider Target entity description: "Spider" is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by David Cronenberg, in which Gabriel Byrne plays a key role in the story of a mentally disturbed man unraveling his traumatic past.
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A.
Spider
Spider is a distributed storage engine for MariaDB that enables sharding and horizontal partitioning of tables across multiple servers.
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B.
Spider
Spider is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Elysium," a character who navigates a starkly divided future society to challenge its oppressive class system.
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C.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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D.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
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E.
the Universal Spider
The Universal Spider was the notorious nickname of King Louis XI of France, reflecting his reputation as a shrewd and manipulative political schemer who wove complex webs of intrigue across Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Spider (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Patrick McGrath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Peter Suschitzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Howard Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | David Cronenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Ronald Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFestivalScreening | 2002 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | psychological drama ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Spider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dennis Cleg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a mentally disturbed man unraveling his traumatic past ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Gabriel Byrne as Bill Cleg
ⓘ
Miranda Richardson as Mrs. Cleg NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda Richardson as Yvonne ⓘ Ralph Fiennes as Dennis Cleg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Catherine Bailey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Cronenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Hadida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Lions Gate Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Movie Network NERFINISHED ⓘ Téléfilm Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseType | theatrical release ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Patrick McGrath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sectionAtFestival | Directors' Fortnight at Cannes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| starring |
Gabriel Byrne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lynn Redgrave NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Fiennes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
memory
ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
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: Spider Description of subject: "Spider" is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by David Cronenberg, in which Gabriel Byrne plays a key role in the story of a mentally disturbed man unraveling his traumatic past.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.