Midnight Cowboy
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Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T408461 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Midnight Cowboy Context triple: [United Artists, produced, Midnight Cowboy]
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Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film starring Jack Nicholson, celebrated as a landmark of the New Hollywood era for its character-driven storytelling and portrayal of alienation.
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The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American war drama film directed by Michael Cimino that explores the psychological and emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends from a small industrial town.
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Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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D.
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film starring James Dean as a troubled suburban teenager, renowned for its exploration of adolescent angst and its lasting impact on youth culture in cinema.
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Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Midnight Cowboy Target entity description: Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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A.
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film starring Jack Nicholson, celebrated as a landmark of the New Hollywood era for its character-driven storytelling and portrayal of alienation.
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B.
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American war drama film directed by Michael Cimino that explores the psychological and emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends from a small industrial town.
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C.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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D.
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film starring James Dean as a troubled suburban teenager, renowned for its exploration of adolescent angst and its lasting impact on youth culture in cinema.
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E.
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Midnight Cowboy Description of subject: Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (novel)
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Jon Voight
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (novel)
subject surface form:
Joe Buck
subject surface form:
Joe Buck
subject surface form:
Joe Buck
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (1969 film adaptation of the novel)
subject surface form:
Joe Buck
subject surface form:
Joe Buck
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy universe
subject surface form:
Ratso Rizzo
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (1969 film)
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (stage adaptation)
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (stage production)
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (1969 film)
subject surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (1969 film)
this entity surface form:
Midnight Cowboy (stage adaptation)
subject surface form:
Harry Nilsson