The Dry
E713613
The Dry is a 2020 Australian crime thriller film, based on Jane Harper’s novel, that follows a federal agent returning to his drought-stricken hometown to investigate a suspicious murder-suicide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8121319 — 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 Dry Context triple: [Keir O’Donnell, notableWork, The Dry]
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A.
The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner is a 2014 historical drama film directed by and starring Russell Crowe, following an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey after World War I to search for his missing sons.
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B.
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Cuckoo's Calling is a crime fiction novel, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, that introduces private detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates the suspicious death of a supermodel.
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C.
The Silkworm
The Silkworm is a crime mystery novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates the murder of a controversial author.
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D.
The Hunt
The Hunt is a BBC nature documentary series that explores the dramatic strategies predators and prey use to survive in the wild.
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E.
The Hunt
"The Hunt" is a dramatic, percussive cue from Jerry Goldsmith’s iconic 1968 Planet of the Apes film score, known for its avant-garde orchestration and intense, primal energy.
- 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 Dry Target entity description: The Dry is a 2020 Australian crime thriller film, based on Jane Harper’s novel, that follows a federal agent returning to his drought-stricken hometown to investigate a suspicious murder-suicide.
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A.
The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner is a 2014 historical drama film directed by and starring Russell Crowe, following an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey after World War I to search for his missing sons.
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B.
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Cuckoo's Calling is a crime fiction novel, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, that introduces private detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates the suspicious death of a supermodel.
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C.
The Silkworm
The Silkworm is a crime mystery novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates the murder of a controversial author.
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D.
The Hunt
The Hunt is a BBC nature documentary series that explores the dramatic strategies predators and prey use to survive in the wild.
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E.
The Hunt
"The Hunt" is a dramatic, percussive cue from Jerry Goldsmith’s iconic 1968 Planet of the Apes film score, known for its avant-garde orchestration and intense, primal energy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Dry (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Jane Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Dry (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Stefan Duscio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| director | Robert Connolly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Roadshow Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Nick Meyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Victoria, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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thriller film ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Force of Nature: The Dry 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Aaron Falk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Peter Raeburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| novelAuthor | Jane Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| novelPublicationYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A federal agent returns to his drought-stricken hometown to investigate a suspicious murder-suicide. ⓘ |
| producer |
Bruna Papandrea
NERFINISHED
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Jodi Matterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Hutensky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Made Up Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Eric Bana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2020-12-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 117 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Harry Cripps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Connolly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Victoria, Australia
NERFINISHED
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fictional town of Kiewarra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bebe Bettencourt
NERFINISHED
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Bruce Spence NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Bana NERFINISHED ⓘ Genevieve O’Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ James Frecheville NERFINISHED ⓘ John Polson NERFINISHED ⓘ Keir O’Donnell NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Dingle Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Nable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
drought
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past trauma ⓘ small-town secrets ⓘ |
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 Dry Description of subject: The Dry is a 2020 Australian crime thriller film, based on Jane Harper’s novel, that follows a federal agent returning to his drought-stricken hometown to investigate a suspicious murder-suicide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.