Young Adam
E631269
Young Adam is a 2003 British film noir drama, based on Alexander Trocchi’s novel, about a drifter involved in a love triangle and a mysterious death on a barge in 1950s Scotland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Young Adam canonical | 6 |
| Young Adam (2003 film) | 1 |
| Young Adam (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6958102 — 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: Young Adam Context triple: [Jeremy Thomas, notableWork, Young Adam]
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A.
Adam in Ballingschap
"Adam in Ballingschap" is a 17th-century Dutch poetic drama by Joost van den Vondel that retells the biblical story of Adam’s fall and exile from Paradise.
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B.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
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C.
The Young Man
The Young Man is a central, unnamed character often portrayed as a youthful, impressionable figure whose experiences and development drive the narrative’s exploration of identity and coming of age.
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D.
The Old Man
The Old Man is the underworld nickname of Russell Bufalino, a powerful mid-20th-century American mob boss associated with the Bufalino crime family and alleged ties to major organized crime events.
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E.
An Occasional Man
"An Occasional Man" is a lighthearted popular song from the mid-20th century American songbook, known for its playful, tropical-themed lyrics and catchy melody.
- 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: Young Adam Target entity description: Young Adam is a 2003 British film noir drama, based on Alexander Trocchi’s novel, about a drifter involved in a love triangle and a mysterious death on a barge in 1950s Scotland.
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A.
Adam in Ballingschap
"Adam in Ballingschap" is a 17th-century Dutch poetic drama by Joost van den Vondel that retells the biblical story of Adam’s fall and exile from Paradise.
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B.
The Gentle Boy
The Gentle Boy is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of religious intolerance and compassion through the relationship between a persecuted Quaker child and his Puritan protectors in colonial New England.
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C.
The Young Man
The Young Man is a central, unnamed character often portrayed as a youthful, impressionable figure whose experiences and development drive the narrative’s exploration of identity and coming of age.
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D.
The Old Man
The Old Man is the underworld nickname of Russell Bufalino, a powerful mid-20th-century American mob boss associated with the Bufalino crime family and alleged ties to major organized crime events.
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E.
An Occasional Man
"An Occasional Man" is a lighthearted popular song from the mid-20th century American songbook, known for its playful, tropical-themed lyrics and catchy melody.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Alexander Trocchi ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Young Adam (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Young Adam
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| cinematographyBy | Giles Nuttgens ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | David Mackenzie ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Maya Deren? (unknown)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maya Deren
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| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Jeremy Thomas ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1954 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Mackenzie ⓘ |
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: Young Adam Description of subject: Young Adam is a 2003 British film noir drama, based on Alexander Trocchi’s novel, about a drifter involved in a love triangle and a mysterious death on a barge in 1950s Scotland.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Young Adam
linked to: Young Adam