The Big Steal
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The Big Steal is a 1990 Australian teen crime-comedy film about a young man who schemes to impress a girl by upgrading his car, only to get entangled in a used-car dealer’s dodgy dealings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Steal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6190295 — 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 Big Steal Context triple: [Ken Sallows, notableWork, The Big Steal]
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A.
The Big Money
The Big Money is a 1936 novel by John Dos Passos, best known as the third volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, which critiques American capitalism and society in the early 20th century through experimental narrative techniques.
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B.
The Stolen
"The Stolen" is a 2017 New Zealand-set period action-adventure film in which Alice Eve stars as a woman searching for her kidnapped son on the colonial frontier.
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C.
The Defrauders
The Defrauders is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Mutaffifin, a chapter of the Qur’an that condemns fraudulent dealings and moral corruption.
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D.
The Spoils
The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
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E.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
- 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 Big Steal Target entity description: The Big Steal is a 1990 Australian teen crime-comedy film about a young man who schemes to impress a girl by upgrading his car, only to get entangled in a used-car dealer’s dodgy dealings.
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A.
The Big Money
The Big Money is a 1936 novel by John Dos Passos, best known as the third volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, which critiques American capitalism and society in the early 20th century through experimental narrative techniques.
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B.
The Stolen
"The Stolen" is a 2017 New Zealand-set period action-adventure film in which Alice Eve stars as a woman searching for her kidnapped son on the colonial frontier.
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C.
The Defrauders
The Defrauders is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Mutaffifin, a chapter of the Qur’an that condemns fraudulent dealings and moral corruption.
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D.
The Spoils
The Spoils is a darkly comedic stage play by Jesse Eisenberg that explores privilege, insecurity, and fractured relationships among young urban adults.
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E.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AFI Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role nomination
NERFINISHED
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AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ AFI Award for Best Director nomination ⓘ AFI Award for Best Film nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ AFI Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | David Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFilming | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| director | Nadia Tass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Hoyts Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Nicholas Beauman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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crime film ⓘ teen film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
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consumerism ⓘ deception ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| hasVehicle | Jaguar XJ6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Danny Clark
NERFINISHED
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Gordon Farkas NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanna Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Chris Gough
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philip Judd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Australian cinema of the 1990s ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A Melbourne teenager schemes to impress a girl by upgrading his car and becomes entangled in a used-car dealer’s dodgy dealings. ⓘ |
| producer | David Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cascade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1990-08-30 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| setIn | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Mendelsohn
NERFINISHED
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Claudia Karvan NERFINISHED ⓘ Damon Herriman NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Bisley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
David Parker
NERFINISHED
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Nadia Tass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Big Steal Description of subject: The Big Steal is a 1990 Australian teen crime-comedy film about a young man who schemes to impress a girl by upgrading his car, only to get entangled in a used-car dealer’s dodgy dealings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.