Once a Thief
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Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Once a Thief canonical | 5 |
| Once a Thief (1991 film) | 2 |
| Once a Thief (1996 film) | 1 |
| Once a Thief franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9802157 — 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: Once a Thief Context triple: [John Woo, directed, Once a Thief]
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A.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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B.
The Good Thief
The Good Thief is a 2002 crime drama film directed by Neil Jordan that follows an aging gambler and thief attempting one last elaborate heist on the French Riviera.
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C.
The King of the Thieves
The King of the Thieves is a crime novel by British author John Gardner that follows the intricate schemes and underworld dealings of professional criminals.
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D.
It Takes a Thief
It Takes a Thief is a late-1960s American television series about a suave professional thief who is recruited by the U.S. government for secret missions, starring Robert Wagner in the lead role.
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E.
Thieves’ Carnival
Thieves’ Carnival is a science fiction work by American author Karen Haber, known for its imaginative world-building and genre-blending storytelling.
- 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: Once a Thief Target entity description: Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
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A.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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B.
The Good Thief
The Good Thief is a 2002 crime drama film directed by Neil Jordan that follows an aging gambler and thief attempting one last elaborate heist on the French Riviera.
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C.
The King of the Thieves
The King of the Thieves is a crime novel by British author John Gardner that follows the intricate schemes and underworld dealings of professional criminals.
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D.
It Takes a Thief
It Takes a Thief is a late-1960s American television series about a suave professional thief who is recruited by the U.S. government for secret missions, starring Robert Wagner in the lead role.
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E.
Thieves’ Carnival
Thieves’ Carnival is a science fiction work by American author Karen Haber, known for its imaginative world-building and genre-blending storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Once a Thief Description of subject: Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Once a Thief
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linked to: Once a Thief