The Running Man (TV movie, 1981)
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The Running Man (1981) is a made-for-television thriller film produced by David Permut.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Running Man (TV movie, 1981) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7141670 — 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 Running Man (TV movie, 1981) Context triple: [David Permut, notableWork, The Running Man (TV movie, 1981)]
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A.
Marathon Man (1976 film)
Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
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B.
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man is a 1970s American science fiction television series about a former astronaut rebuilt with bionic implants who works as a secret agent for the U.S. government.
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C.
The Fugitive (TV series)
The Fugitive is a 1960s American television drama series about a doctor wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder who escapes custody and searches for the real killer while being pursued by the law.
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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.
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.
- 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 Running Man (TV movie, 1981) Target entity description: The Running Man (1981) is a made-for-television thriller film produced by David Permut.
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A.
Marathon Man (1976 film)
Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, about a graduate student unwittingly entangled in a deadly conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal and stolen diamonds.
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B.
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man is a 1970s American science fiction television series about a former astronaut rebuilt with bionic implants who works as a secret agent for the U.S. government.
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C.
The Fugitive (TV series)
The Fugitive is a 1960s American television drama series about a doctor wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder who escapes custody and searches for the real killer while being pursued by the law.
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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel by Shelley Smith ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Donald Brittain ⓘ |
| distributor | NBC ⓘ |
| format | made-for-television film ⓘ |
| genre | thriller ⓘ |
| isNot |
The Running Man (1987 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Running Man
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| producer | David Permut ⓘ |
| productionType | made-for-TV movie ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William Gray ⓘ |
| starring |
Alexandra Bastedo
ⓘ
Angie Dickinson ⓘ Chuck Shamata ⓘ Kenneth Welsh ⓘ Lawrence Dane ⓘ Len Cariou ⓘ |
| title | The Running Man ⓘ |
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 Running Man (TV movie, 1981) Description of subject: The Running Man (1981) is a made-for-television thriller film produced by David Permut.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.