The Matador
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The Matador is a 2005 dark comedy crime film starring Pierce Brosnan as a jaded hitman who forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling businessman, directed by Richard Shepard.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Matador canonical | 10 |
| Bullfighter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8941121 — 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 Matador Context triple: [David Tattersall, notableWork, The Matador]
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A.
El Matador
El Matador is the famous nickname of Mexican former football striker Luis Hernández, known for his prolific goal-scoring and standout performances in the late 1990s.
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B.
Matadors
The Matadors are the athletic teams representing California State University, Northridge in NCAA competition.
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C.
Matador
"Matador" is a song by the American rock band Spirit, known for blending psychedelic rock with jazz and progressive influences.
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D.
Matador
Matador is a 1986 Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of desire, death, and obsession.
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E.
Matador
Matador is a tire brand associated with Continental AG, offering a range of affordable passenger and commercial vehicle tires primarily in European and global markets.
- 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 Matador Target entity description: The Matador is a 2005 dark comedy crime film starring Pierce Brosnan as a jaded hitman who forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling businessman, directed by Richard Shepard.
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A.
El Matador
El Matador is the famous nickname of Mexican former football striker Luis Hernández, known for his prolific goal-scoring and standout performances in the late 1990s.
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B.
Matadors
The Matadors are the athletic teams representing California State University, Northridge in NCAA competition.
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C.
Matador
Matador is a 1986 Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of desire, death, and obsession.
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D.
Matador
Matador is a tire brand associated with Continental AG, offering a range of affordable passenger and commercial vehicle tires primarily in European and global markets.
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E.
Matador
"Matador" is a song by the American rock band Spirit, known for blending psychedelic rock with jazz and progressive influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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 Matador Description of subject: The Matador is a 2005 dark comedy crime film starring Pierce Brosnan as a jaded hitman who forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling businessman, directed by Richard Shepard.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Matador