Ruthless People
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Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ruthless People canonical | 25 |
| 1986 film Ruthless People | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T483890 — 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: Ruthless People Context triple: [Bette Midler, notableWork, Ruthless People]
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A.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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B.
Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 New Hollywood crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino as a desperate bank robber in a story based on a real-life hostage situation.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 dark comedy fantasy film known for its satirical take on vanity and immortality and its groundbreaking visual effects.
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E.
Fist Fight
Fist Fight is a 2017 American comedy film in which two high school teachers, played by Ice Cube and Charlie Day, are set to settle their differences in an after-school fistfight.
- 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: Ruthless People Target entity description: Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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A.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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B.
Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 New Hollywood crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino as a desperate bank robber in a story based on a real-life hostage situation.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 dark comedy fantasy film known for its satirical take on vanity and immortality and its groundbreaking visual effects.
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E.
Fist Fight
Fist Fight is a 2017 American comedy film in which two high school teachers, played by Ice Cube and Charlie Day, are set to settle their differences in an after-school fistfight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Ruthless People Description of subject: Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
1986 film Ruthless People