Paycheck
E582867
Paycheck is a 2003 science fiction action thriller film, based on a Philip K. Dick short story, about an engineer who must piece together his erased memories to uncover a conspiracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paycheck canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6296652 — 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: Paycheck Context triple: [Beau Flynn, notableWork, Paycheck]
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A.
Payday
Payday is a 1973 American drama film starring Rip Torn as a hard-living country singer whose self-destructive lifestyle unravels over the course of a few chaotic days.
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B.
Payday
"Payday" is a song by the American rock band Culture, recognized as one of their notable musical works.
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C.
Paycom
Paycom is a U.S.-based software company that provides cloud-based payroll and human capital management solutions to businesses.
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D.
Payback
Payback is a 1999 neo-noir crime film starring Mel Gibson as a vengeful thief seeking repayment after being double-crossed.
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E.
Pay Me My Money Down
"Pay Me My Money Down" is a traditional American work song popularized in the folk revival and later notably covered by Bruce Springsteen.
- 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: Paycheck Target entity description: Paycheck is a 2003 science fiction action thriller film, based on a Philip K. Dick short story, about an engineer who must piece together his erased memories to uncover a conspiracy.
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A.
Payday
Payday is a 1973 American drama film starring Rip Torn as a hard-living country singer whose self-destructive lifestyle unravels over the course of a few chaotic days.
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B.
Payday
"Payday" is a song by the American rock band Culture, recognized as one of their notable musical works.
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C.
Paycom
Paycom is a U.S.-based software company that provides cloud-based payroll and human capital management solutions to businesses.
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D.
Payback
Payback is a 1999 neo-noir crime film starring Mel Gibson as a vengeful thief seeking repayment after being double-crossed.
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E.
Pay Me My Money Down
"Pay Me My Money Down" is a traditional American work song popularized in the folk revival and later notably covered by Bruce Springsteen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action thriller film
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film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Paycheck (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Philip K. Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossUSD | 117000000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 60000000 ⓘ |
| castMember |
Aaron Eckhart
NERFINISHED
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Ben Affleck NERFINISHED ⓘ Colm Feore NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivana Miličević NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Morton NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathryn Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael C. Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Giamatti NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ Uma Thurman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Jeffrey L. Kimball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | John Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Woo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor |
Christopher Rouse
NERFINISHED
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Kevin Stitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
British Columbia
NERFINISHED
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Vancouver ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
James Rethrick
NERFINISHED
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Michael Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
corporate conspiracy
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memory erasure ⓘ reverse-engineering future events ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Aaron Eckhart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ben Affleck NERFINISHED ⓘ Uma Thurman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
John Woo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terence Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Davis Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2003-12-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 119 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Dean Georgaris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | near future ⓘ |
| shortStoryPublicationYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| title | Paycheck 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: Paycheck Description of subject: Paycheck is a 2003 science fiction action thriller film, based on a Philip K. Dick short story, about an engineer who must piece together his erased memories to uncover a conspiracy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.