The Insider (film)
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The Insider is a 1999 drama film directed by Michael Mann that dramatizes tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand’s revelations and their broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Insider | 34 |
| The Insider (1999 film) | 3 |
| The Insider (film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T78063 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Insider (film) Context triple: [Browne & Williamson, mediaDepiction, The Insider (film)]
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Deep Throat
Deep Throat is the pseudonym of the secret informant who provided key information to Washington Post reporters about the Watergate scandal, helping to expose the Nixon administration’s involvement.
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B.
Varsity Blues
Varsity Blues is the collective name for the University of Toronto’s varsity athletic teams that compete in a wide range of intercollegiate sports.
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C.
Howard Reports
Howard Reports is an early series of officially reported decisions of the United States Supreme Court, compiled by court reporter Benjamin C. Howard before the adoption of the United States Reports title.
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Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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E.
The Apprentice
The Apprentice is a reality television series in which contestants compete in business-related challenges for a chance to work for a high-profile executive.
- 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 Insider (film) Target entity description: The Insider is a 1999 drama film directed by Michael Mann that dramatizes tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand’s revelations and their broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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A.
Deep Throat
Deep Throat is the pseudonym of the secret informant who provided key information to Washington Post reporters about the Watergate scandal, helping to expose the Nixon administration’s involvement.
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B.
Varsity Blues
Varsity Blues is the collective name for the University of Toronto’s varsity athletic teams that compete in a wide range of intercollegiate sports.
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C.
Howard Reports
Howard Reports is an early series of officially reported decisions of the United States Supreme Court, compiled by court reporter Benjamin C. Howard before the adoption of the United States Reports title.
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D.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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E.
The Apprentice
The Apprentice is a reality television series in which contestants compete in business-related challenges for a chance to work for a high-profile executive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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 Insider (film) Description of subject: The Insider is a 1999 drama film directed by Michael Mann that dramatizes tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand’s revelations and their broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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