Cul-de-sac
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Cul-de-sac is a 1966 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, known for its darkly comic tone and claustrophobic exploration of power dynamics among a small group of characters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cul-de-sac canonical | 3 |
| Culdesac | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5509841 — 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: Cul-de-sac Context triple: [Donald Pleasence, notableWork, Cul-de-sac]
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A.
Culdesac
Culdesac is a small rural city in north-central Idaho, United States, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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B.
Arborway
Arborway is a scenic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts, that forms part of the Emerald Necklace and connects urban neighborhoods with major green spaces like the Arnold Arboretum.
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C.
Rosemary Lane
Rosemary Lane was an American actress and singer best known as one of the Lane Sisters, who appeared in several popular Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Meadow Lane
Meadow Lane is a historic football stadium in Nottingham, England, best known as the long-time home ground of Notts County F.C.
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E.
Pine Valley Drive
Pine Valley Drive is a significant north–south arterial road in Woodbridge, a community within the city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada.
- 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: Cul-de-sac Target entity description: Cul-de-sac is a 1966 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, known for its darkly comic tone and claustrophobic exploration of power dynamics among a small group of characters.
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A.
Culdesac
Culdesac is a small rural city in north-central Idaho, United States, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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B.
Arborway
Arborway is a scenic parkway in Boston, Massachusetts, that forms part of the Emerald Necklace and connects urban neighborhoods with major green spaces like the Arnold Arboretum.
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C.
Rosemary Lane
Rosemary Lane was an American actress and singer best known as one of the Lane Sisters, who appeared in several popular Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Meadow Lane
Meadow Lane is a historic football stadium in Nottingham, England, best known as the long-time home ground of Notts County F.C.
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E.
Pine Valley Drive
Pine Valley Drive is a significant north–south arterial road in Woodbridge, a community within the city of Vaughan in Ontario, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | 16th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Albie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard NERFINISHED ⓘ Teresa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Gilbert Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Roman Polanski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Compton-Cameo Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Alastair McIntyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalScreening | 16th Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Lindisfarne Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emasculation
ⓘ
invasion of privacy ⓘ power struggle ⓘ psychological manipulation ⓘ |
| leadActor | Donald Pleasence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Françoise Dorléac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Krzysztof Komeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | power dynamics among a small group of characters ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
claustrophobic atmosphere
ⓘ
darkly comic tone ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman Polanski filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Gene Gutowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Compton Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tekli British Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 111 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gérard Brach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Polanski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | tidal island ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Lindisfarne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Donald Pleasence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Françoise Dorléac NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack MacGowran NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Stander 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: Cul-de-sac Description of subject: Cul-de-sac is a 1966 psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, known for its darkly comic tone and claustrophobic exploration of power dynamics among a small group of characters.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Culdesac