Searching
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Searching is a 2018 mystery-thriller film told entirely through computer and smartphone screens, following a father’s frantic online investigation into his teenage daughter’s disappearance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Searching canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10560884 — 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: Searching Context triple: [Stage 6 Films, notableRelease, Searching]
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A.
Searching
"Searching" is a single by Luther Vandross that preceded his hit song "Never Too Much," showcasing his smooth R&B vocal style early in his solo career.
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B.
Search Me
"Search Me" is a Christian pop-rock song by Katy Hudson (later known as Katy Perry) from her early gospel-oriented music career.
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C.
Search and Discovery
Search and Discovery is a regular Physics Today section that highlights notable recent advances and findings across the physical sciences.
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D.
Searching for Something
"Searching for Something" is a song featured on the album "Don’t Worry About Me" by Joey Ramone.
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E.
The Search
"The Search" is a 1948 post–World War II drama film about a young Czech boy and an American soldier, widely recognized as one of Montgomery Clift’s early acclaimed screen performances.
- 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: Searching Target entity description: Searching is a 2018 mystery-thriller film told entirely through computer and smartphone screens, following a father’s frantic online investigation into his teenage daughter’s disappearance.
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A.
Searching
"Searching" is a single by Luther Vandross that preceded his hit song "Never Too Much," showcasing his smooth R&B vocal style early in his solo career.
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B.
Search Me
"Search Me" is a Christian pop-rock song by Katy Hudson (later known as Katy Perry) from her early gospel-oriented music career.
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C.
Search and Discovery
Search and Discovery is a regular Physics Today section that highlights notable recent advances and findings across the physical sciences.
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D.
Searching for Something
"Searching for Something" is a song featured on the album "Don’t Worry About Me" by Joey Ramone.
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E.
The Search
"The Search" is a 1948 post–World War II drama film about a young Czech boy and an American soldier, widely recognized as one of Montgomery Clift’s early acclaimed screen performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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mystery-thriller film ⓘ |
| character |
David Kim
NERFINISHED
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Detective Rosemary Vick NERFINISHED ⓘ Margot Kim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Juan Sebastian Baron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| director | Aneesh Chaganty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Nick Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Will Merrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Missing ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| leadActorFirstAsianAmericanInHollywoodThriller | John Cho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
digital footprints
ⓘ
parent-child relationship ⓘ privacy and technology ⓘ |
| musicBy | Toru Takemitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFormat | told entirely through computer and smartphone screens ⓘ |
| notableFor | innovative use of screen-based storytelling ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A father conducts an online investigation when his teenage daughter goes missing. ⓘ |
| portrays |
Debra Messing as Detective Rosemary Vick
ⓘ
John Cho as David Kim NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle La as Margot Kim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereYearAtSundance | 2018 ⓘ |
| producer |
Adam Sidman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Natalie Qasabian NERFINISHED ⓘ Sev Ohanian NERFINISHED ⓘ Timur Bekmambetov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Bazelevs Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| sequelTypeOf | Missing is a spiritual sequel ⓘ |
| starring |
Debra Messing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cho NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle La NERFINISHED ⓘ Sara Sohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Searching NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereAt | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Aneesh Chaganty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sev Ohanian 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: Searching Description of subject: Searching is a 2018 mystery-thriller film told entirely through computer and smartphone screens, following a father’s frantic online investigation into his teenage daughter’s disappearance.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.