Basic Instinct
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, renowned for its provocative content and iconic interrogation scene.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basic Instinct canonical | 34 |
| Basic Instinct film series | 2 |
| Basic Instinct (1992 film score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T517156 — 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: Basic Instinct Context triple: [Michael Douglas, notableWork, Basic Instinct]
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A.
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 psychological thriller film about a married man's affair that spirals into violent obsession, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
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B.
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard is a 1992 romantic thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, featuring Houston’s iconic performance and hit soundtrack including “I Will Always Love You.”
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C.
L'innocente
L'innocente is a psychological novel by Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio that explores themes of adultery, jealousy, and moral decadence in late 19th-century bourgeois society.
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D.
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair is a stylish 1968 heist film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, renowned for its sophisticated cat-and-mouse romance and innovative split-screen visuals.
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E.
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film about a romance novelist who embarks on a perilous quest in Colombia, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
- 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: Basic Instinct Target entity description: Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, renowned for its provocative content and iconic interrogation scene.
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A.
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 psychological thriller film about a married man's affair that spirals into violent obsession, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
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B.
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard is a 1992 romantic thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, featuring Houston’s iconic performance and hit soundtrack including “I Will Always Love You.”
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C.
L'innocente
L'innocente is a psychological novel by Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio that explores themes of adultery, jealousy, and moral decadence in late 19th-century bourgeois society.
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D.
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair is a stylish 1968 heist film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, renowned for its sophisticated cat-and-mouse romance and innovative split-screen visuals.
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E.
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film about a romance novelist who embarks on a perilous quest in Colombia, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Basic Instinct Description of subject: Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, renowned for its provocative content and iconic interrogation scene.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Basic Instinct (1992 film score)
subject surface form:
Nick Curran
subject surface form:
Nick Curran
subject surface form:
Nick Curran
this entity surface form:
Basic Instinct film series
subject surface form:
Michael Douglas
this entity surface form:
Basic Instinct film series
subject surface form:
Ride
subject surface form:
Ride