The Watch
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The Watch is a 2012 American science fiction comedy film about a suburban neighborhood watch group that uncovers an alien invasion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Watch canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9767918 — 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 Watch Context triple: [Lawrence Sher, notableWork, The Watch]
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A.
The Watch
The Watch is the student-run newspaper of the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its campus news coverage and commentary.
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B.
The Watcher
The Watcher is a Netflix true-crime thriller series inspired by real events, in which Bobby Cannavale stars as a husband terrorized by ominous letters after moving his family into their dream home.
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C.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series, co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, featuring the iconic drifter hero confronting a high-stakes conspiracy.
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E.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- 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 Watch Target entity description: The Watch is a 2012 American science fiction comedy film about a suburban neighborhood watch group that uncovers an alien invasion.
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A.
The Watch
The Watch is the student-run newspaper of the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, known for its campus news coverage and commentary.
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B.
The Watcher
The Watcher is a Netflix true-crime thriller series inspired by real events, in which Bobby Cannavale stars as a husband terrorized by ominous letters after moving his family into their dream home.
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C.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series, co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, featuring the iconic drifter hero confronting a high-stakes conspiracy.
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E.
The Sentinel
"The Sentinel" is a seminal science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that helped inspire the concept and themes of his later work "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | approximately 68 million USD ⓘ |
| castMember |
Doug Jones
NERFINISHED
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Nicholas Braun NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosemarie DeWitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Forte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Barry Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Akiva Schaffer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dean Zimmerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt1298649 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alien invasion
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community solidarity ⓘ friendship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bob McAllister
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Evan Trautwig NERFINISHED ⓘ Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamarcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Christophe Beck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A suburban neighborhood watch group uncovers an alien invasion. ⓘ |
| producer |
Billy Rosenberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Ewing NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawn Levy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
21 Laps Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2012-07-27 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Evan Goldberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jared Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ Seth Rogen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | suburban neighborhood ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Stiller
NERFINISHED
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Jonah Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Ayoade NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Vaughn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Jared Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Watch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Watch Description of subject: The Watch is a 2012 American science fiction comedy film about a suburban neighborhood watch group that uncovers an alien invasion.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.