The Big Steal (1990 film)
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The Big Steal (1990 film) is an Australian teen comedy crime caper about a young man trying to impress a girl by acquiring a Jaguar car, only to become entangled in a used-car scam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Steal (1990 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6190305 — 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 (1990 film) Context triple: [Ken Sallows, notableWork, The Big Steal (1990 film)]
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A.
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam that follows a young boy who joins a band of time-traveling dwarfs on a surreal journey through history.
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B.
How to Steal a Million
How to Steal a Million is a 1966 romantic comedy heist film starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, centered on an art forgery scheme in Paris.
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C.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a mid-distance sled dog race event held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, often serving as a companion race to the longer UP 200.
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D.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 action-comedy film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter transporting an accountant across the country while being pursued by the FBI and the mob.
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E.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
- 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 (1990 film) Target entity description: The Big Steal (1990 film) is an Australian teen comedy crime caper about a young man trying to impress a girl by acquiring a Jaguar car, only to become entangled in a used-car scam.
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A.
The Grifters
The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Stephen Frears, based on Jim Thompson’s novel, about a trio of con artists entangled in a dangerous web of deception and betrayal.
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B.
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam that follows a young boy who joins a band of time-traveling dwarfs on a surreal journey through history.
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C.
How to Steal a Million
How to Steal a Million is a 1966 romantic comedy heist film starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, centered on an art forgery scheme in Paris.
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D.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a mid-distance sled dog race event held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, often serving as a companion race to the longer UP 200.
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E.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 action-comedy film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter transporting an accountant across the country while being pursued by the FBI and the mob.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
teen comedy film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AFI Award for Best Original Screenplay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | David Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coProducedBy | Nadia Tass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Nadia Tass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Hoyts Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Nicholas Beauman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ teen film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
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deception ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| hasVehicle | Jaguar car ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Danny Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Chris Gough
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philip Judd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
AFI Award for Best Direction
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
AFI Award for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of Australian suburban teen life in the late 1980s ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Australian cinema of the 1990s ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A Melbourne teenager tries to impress a girl by acquiring a Jaguar car and becomes entangled in a used-car scam ⓘ |
| producer | David Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cascade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Ben Mendelsohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1990-08-30 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| runtime | 99 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | David Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Angie Milliken
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ben Mendelsohn NERFINISHED ⓘ Claudia Karvan NERFINISHED ⓘ Damon Herriman NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Bisley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | David Parker 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 Big Steal (1990 film) Description of subject: The Big Steal (1990 film) is an Australian teen comedy crime caper about a young man trying to impress a girl by acquiring a Jaguar car, only to become entangled in a used-car scam.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.