The Saint
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The Saint is a 1997 action thriller film starring Val Kilmer as a master thief and master of disguise, loosely based on the classic character created by Leslie Charteris.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Saint canonical | 5 |
| The Saint film adaptations | 1 |
| The Saint in London | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6114934 — 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: The Saint Context triple: [Phillip Noyce, directed, The Saint]
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A.
The Saint
The Saint is one of the short stories in Gabriel García Márquez’s collection "Strange Pilgrims," exploring themes of faith, miracles, and human vulnerability.
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B.
The Saint
The Saint is a British mystery spy thriller television series, based on Leslie Charteris's character Simon Templar, that originally aired in the 1960s and starred Roger Moore as a suave, Robin Hood–like adventurer.
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C.
Saint of Circumstance
"Saint of Circumstance" is a song by the Grateful Dead, known for its upbeat, improvisational live performances and reflective lyrics.
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D.
The Salvation
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish-directed Western film starring Mads Mikkelsen as a settler seeking revenge in the American frontier.
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E.
The Saints of Salvation
The Saints of Salvation is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton that concludes his Salvation Sequence space opera trilogy, featuring humanity’s struggle against a powerful alien threat.
- 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 Saint Target entity description: The Saint is a 1997 action thriller film starring Val Kilmer as a master thief and master of disguise, loosely based on the classic character created by Leslie Charteris.
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A.
The Saint
The Saint is one of the short stories in Gabriel García Márquez’s collection "Strange Pilgrims," exploring themes of faith, miracles, and human vulnerability.
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B.
The Saint
The Saint is a British mystery spy thriller television series, based on Leslie Charteris's character Simon Templar, that originally aired in the 1960s and starred Roger Moore as a suave, Robin Hood–like adventurer.
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C.
Saint of Circumstance
"Saint of Circumstance" is a song by the Grateful Dead, known for its upbeat, improvisational live performances and reflective lyrics.
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D.
The Salvation
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish-directed Western film starring Mads Mikkelsen as a settler seeking revenge in the American frontier.
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E.
The Saints of Salvation
The Saints of Salvation is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton that concludes his Salvation Sequence space opera trilogy, featuring humanity’s struggle against a powerful alien threat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Saint literary series by Leslie Charteris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Saint character by Leslie Charteris ⓘ |
| boxOffice | over $160 million worldwide ⓘ |
| budget | approximately $68 million ⓘ |
| cinematography | Phil Meheux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Phillip Noyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributor |
Paramount Pictures
ⓘ
UIP (international) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Terry Rawlings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasGenre | spy film ⓘ |
| hasLeadActor | Val Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLeadActress | Elisabeth Shue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme | cold fusion ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Simon Templar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Graeme Revell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | industrial espionage ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
master of disguise
ⓘ
master thief ⓘ |
| producer |
David Brown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mace Neufeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate |
1997
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April 4, 1997 (United States) ⓘ |
| runtime | 116 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jonathan Hensleigh
NERFINISHED
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Wesley Strick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alun Armstrong
NERFINISHED
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Elisabeth Shue NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Goodman NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ Rade Šerbedžija NERFINISHED ⓘ Val Kilmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Valeriy Nikolaev 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: The Saint Description of subject: The Saint is a 1997 action thriller film starring Val Kilmer as a master thief and master of disguise, loosely based on the classic character created by Leslie Charteris.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Saint in London
this entity surface form:
The Saint film adaptations