The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper is a 1981 adventure crime film loosely inspired by the infamous 1971 hijacking and disappearance of skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper | 1 |
| The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9184516 — 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 Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Context triple: [Paul Hirsch, notableWork, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper]
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A.
The Ghost of Flight 401
The Ghost of Flight 401 is a 1978 made-for-television supernatural drama film based on the alleged hauntings following the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.
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B.
Ten Wanted Men
Ten Wanted Men is a 1955 American Western film starring Randolph Scott as a rancher caught in a violent range war.
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C.
The Black Box
The Black Box is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he reopens a decades-old murder case first encountered during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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D.
The Bone Collector
The Bone Collector is a 1999 crime thriller film about a quadriplegic forensic expert and a rookie cop hunting a serial killer in New York City.
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E.
Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, internationally known as the site of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
- 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 Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Target entity description: The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper is a 1981 adventure crime film loosely inspired by the infamous 1971 hijacking and disappearance of skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
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A.
The Ghost of Flight 401
The Ghost of Flight 401 is a 1978 made-for-television supernatural drama film based on the alleged hauntings following the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.
-
B.
Ten Wanted Men
Ten Wanted Men is a 1955 American Western film starring Randolph Scott as a rancher caught in a violent range war.
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C.
The Black Box
The Black Box is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he reopens a decades-old murder case first encountered during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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D.
The Bone Collector
The Bone Collector is a 1999 crime thriller film about a quadriplegic forensic expert and a rookie cop hunting a serial killer in New York City.
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E.
Lockerbie
Lockerbie is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, internationally known as the site of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
D.B. Cooper: What Really Happened
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Free Fall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor |
J. D. Reed
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Ciotti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ronny Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Buzz Kulik
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roger Spottiswoode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | John Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| genre |
action
ⓘ
adventure ⓘ crime ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Oregon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
aircraft hijacking
ⓘ
escape ⓘ manhunt ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | D. B. Cooper hijacking ⓘ |
| isLooselyBasedOn | D. B. Cooper hijacking ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | James Horner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Pacific Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | fictionalized account of D. B. Cooper ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1981-11-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alan Sharp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeffrey Alan Fiskin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| starring |
Ed Flanders
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kathryn Harrold NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Gleason NERFINISHED ⓘ R. G. Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Duvall NERFINISHED ⓘ Treat Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject | D. B. Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | D. B. Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Description of subject: The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper is a 1981 adventure crime film loosely inspired by the infamous 1971 hijacking and disappearance of skyjacker D.B. Cooper.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper