The Mighty Quinn
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The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 crime-comedy film starring Denzel Washington as a charismatic Caribbean police chief investigating a murder on his small island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mighty Quinn canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7141669 — 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 Mighty Quinn Context triple: [David Permut, notableWork, The Mighty Quinn]
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A.
The Quigley
The Quigley is a notorious water obstacle course at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, known for its muddy trenches, submerged passages, and physically demanding conditions.
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B.
A Seleção das Quinas
A Seleção das Quinas is the popular nickname for Portugal’s national football team, renowned for its attacking flair and global stars like Cristiano Ronaldo.
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C.
The Mighty
The Mighty is a 1998 drama film about the friendship between two misfit boys, based on the novel "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick.
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D.
The Q-Crew
The Q-Crew is the dedicated student cheering section that supports the Quinnipiac Bobcats men's ice hockey team at their home games.
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E.
The Mighty Two
The Mighty Two is a Jamaican reggae and dub production duo best known for their influential work in the 1970s with artists such as Culture.
- 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 Mighty Quinn Target entity description: The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 crime-comedy film starring Denzel Washington as a charismatic Caribbean police chief investigating a murder on his small island.
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A.
The Quigley
The Quigley is a notorious water obstacle course at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, known for its muddy trenches, submerged passages, and physically demanding conditions.
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B.
A Seleção das Quinas
A Seleção das Quinas is the popular nickname for Portugal’s national football team, renowned for its attacking flair and global stars like Cristiano Ronaldo.
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C.
The Mighty
The Mighty is a 1998 drama film about the friendship between two misfit boys, based on the novel "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick.
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D.
The Q-Crew
The Q-Crew is the dedicated student cheering section that supports the Quinnipiac Bobcats men's ice hockey team at their home games.
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E.
The Mighty Two
The Mighty Two is a Jamaican reggae and dub production duo best known for their influential work in the 1970s with artists such as Culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Finding Maubee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | A. H. Z. Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Maubee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xavier Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Curtis Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Carl Schenkel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hays Days NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ mystery film ⓘ |
| hasSong | The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ police investigation ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | police chief ⓘ |
| mainCharacterTrait | charismatic ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Cliff Eidelman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyrone Downie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | murder investigation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| posterCaption | The Mighty Quinn theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| producer |
Carol Baum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas M. Hammel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1989-02-17 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Hampton Fancher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Caribbean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
fictional Caribbean island ⓘ |
| songOriginallyBy | Bob Dylan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Denzel Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Esther Rolle NERFINISHED ⓘ James Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ M. Emmet Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Mimi Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Townsend NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheryl Lee Ralph 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 Mighty Quinn Description of subject: The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 crime-comedy film starring Denzel Washington as a charismatic Caribbean police chief investigating a murder on his small island.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.