The Quiet American
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The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, set in 1950s Vietnam and exploring political intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the early stages of U.S. involvement in the region.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Quiet American canonical | 8 |
| The Quiet American (2002 film) | 5 |
| 2002 film The Quiet American | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6114932 — 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: The Quiet American Context triple: [Phillip Noyce, directed, The Quiet American]
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The Quiet American
The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
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B.
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war drama film set in 1920s China, starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. Navy machinist’s mate aboard a gunboat on the Yangtze River.
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The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
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An American in Washington
"An American in Washington" is a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and humorist Russell Baker, offering his characteristically witty observations on American politics and life in the nation’s capital.
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The Lieutenant
The Lieutenant is a 1960s American television drama series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the professional and personal challenges of a young U.S. Marine Corps officer.
- 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: The Quiet American Target entity description: The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, set in 1950s Vietnam and exploring political intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the early stages of U.S. involvement in the region.
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A.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
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B.
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American war drama film set in 1920s China, starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. Navy machinist’s mate aboard a gunboat on the Yangtze River.
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C.
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
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D.
An American in Washington
"An American in Washington" is a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and humorist Russell Baker, offering his characteristically witty observations on American politics and life in the nation’s capital.
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E.
The Lieutenant
The Lieutenant is a 1960s American television drama series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the professional and personal challenges of a young U.S. Marine Corps officer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Quiet American Description of subject: The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, set in 1950s Vietnam and exploring political intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the early stages of U.S. involvement in the region.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Phuong is Fowler’s Vietnamese lover
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