Scum
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Scum is a gritty 1979 British crime drama film depicting the brutal realities of life inside a borstal (youth detention center), noted for its stark violence and Ray Winstone’s powerful performance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scum canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7546023 — 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: Scum Context triple: [Ray Winstone, notableWork, Scum]
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A.
The Infamous
The Infamous is Mobb Deep’s critically acclaimed 1995 East Coast hip-hop album known for its dark, gritty production and vivid street narratives.
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B.
Vicious World
Vicious World is a song by the American rock band Want One, known for its intense sound and emotionally charged lyrics.
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C.
Menace
Menace is a British hip-hop producer best known for crafting the beat behind Desiigner’s hit single “Panda,” which was prominently sampled in Kanye West’s “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 2.”
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D.
Menace
Menace is a supervillain in Marvel Comics, primarily an enemy of Spider-Man and a successor to the Green Goblin legacy.
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E.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
- 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: Scum Target entity description: Scum is a gritty 1979 British crime drama film depicting the brutal realities of life inside a borstal (youth detention center), noted for its stark violence and Ray Winstone’s powerful performance.
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A.
The Infamous
The Infamous is Mobb Deep’s critically acclaimed 1995 East Coast hip-hop album known for its dark, gritty production and vivid street narratives.
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B.
Vicious World
Vicious World is a song by the American rock band Want One, known for its intense sound and emotionally charged lyrics.
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C.
Menace
Menace is a British hip-hop producer best known for crafting the beat behind Desiigner’s hit single “Panda,” which was prominently sampled in Kanye West’s “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 2.”
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D.
Menace
Menace is a supervillain in Marvel Comics, primarily an enemy of Spider-Man and a successor to the Green Goblin legacy.
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E.
Great Kills
Great Kills is a residential neighborhood on Staten Island’s South Shore known for its marina, waterfront parks, and suburban character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Scum (1977 TV play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificate | X (original UK rating) ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Chris Menges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alan Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | HandMade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ian McBride NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
drama ⓘ prison film ⓘ |
| hasTVPrecursor | Scum (1977 BBC television play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActor | Ray Winstone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Carlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Peter Coe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Ray Winstone performance
ⓘ
controversial depiction of borstals ⓘ graphic violence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | British social realism cinema ⓘ |
| portrays |
hierarchies among inmates
ⓘ
racism in institutions ⓘ sexual violence in custody ⓘ violence in youth detention ⓘ |
| producer | Don Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Davina Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979-09-12 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenplayAdaptationOf | Scum (1977 BBC television play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Roy Minton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
borstal
ⓘ
youth detention centre ⓘ |
| starring |
John Blundell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Judd NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Firth NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Burdis NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Winstone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
abuse of power
ⓘ
institutional brutality ⓘ juvenile delinquency ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 1970s ⓘ |
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: Scum Description of subject: Scum is a gritty 1979 British crime drama film depicting the brutal realities of life inside a borstal (youth detention center), noted for its stark violence and Ray Winstone’s powerful performance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.