The Mercenaries
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The Mercenaries is a 1968 British adventure film (also known as Dark of the Sun) about a group of soldiers of fortune on a perilous mission in the Congo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Diamond Mercenaries | 1 |
| The Mercenaries canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10131465 — 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 Mercenaries Context triple: [Jack Cardiff, directed, The Mercenaries]
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A.
The Mercenary
The Mercenary is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci, known for its blend of political themes, stylized violence, and Franco Nero’s iconic gunslinger performance.
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B.
Soldiers of Fortune
Soldiers of Fortune is an 1897 adventure novel by American writer Richard Harding Davis, centered on political intrigue and revolution in a fictional Latin American country.
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Soldiers of Fortune
Soldiers of Fortune is a 2012 action-adventure film about wealthy thrill-seekers who pay to participate in a real military mission, starring actors including Dominic Monaghan.
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D.
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune is a first-person shooter video game known for its realistic, graphic depiction of modern combat and mercenary warfare.
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E.
Guardia de Asalto
The Guardia de Asalto was a Spanish Republican-era urban police and paramilitary force known for its role in maintaining public order and later fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
- 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 Mercenaries Target entity description: The Mercenaries is a 1968 British adventure film (also known as Dark of the Sun) about a group of soldiers of fortune on a perilous mission in the Congo.
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A.
The Mercenary
The Mercenary is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci, known for its blend of political themes, stylized violence, and Franco Nero’s iconic gunslinger performance.
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B.
Soldiers of Fortune
Soldiers of Fortune is an 1897 adventure novel by American writer Richard Harding Davis, centered on political intrigue and revolution in a fictional Latin American country.
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C.
Soldiers of Fortune
Soldiers of Fortune is a 2012 action-adventure film about wealthy thrill-seekers who pay to participate in a real military mission, starring actors including Dominic Monaghan.
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D.
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune is a first-person shooter video game known for its realistic, graphic depiction of modern combat and mercenary warfare.
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E.
Guardia de Asalto
The Guardia de Asalto was a Spanish Republican-era urban police and paramilitary force known for its role in maintaining public order and later fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
- 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: The Mercenaries Description of subject: The Mercenaries is a 1968 British adventure film (also known as Dark of the Sun) about a group of soldiers of fortune on a perilous mission in the Congo.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Mercenaries