Eyewitness
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Eyewitness is a 1981 American thriller film starring William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver that blends suspense, romance, and mystery around a murder witnessed by a New York City janitor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eyewitness canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10649491 — 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: Eyewitness Context triple: [Peter Yates, directed, Eyewitness]
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A.
Bear Witness
"Bear Witness" is a song by the American indie rock band Lord Huron from their album "Strange Trails."
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B.
The Last Witness
The Last Witness is a film featuring British actress Saskia Reeves in a significant role.
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C.
On the Witness Stand
On the Witness Stand is a pioneering early 20th-century book on forensic psychology that examines the reliability of eyewitness testimony and the application of psychological principles to legal proceedings.
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D.
I Witnessed a Crime
"I Witnessed a Crime" is a moody, soulful rock song by The Horrible Crowes, the side project of The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon known for its dark, atmospheric sound.
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E.
Witness
Witness is a 1985 crime drama film directed by Peter Weir, best known for its story about a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder and the detective who protects him.
- 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: Eyewitness Target entity description: Eyewitness is a 1981 American thriller film starring William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver that blends suspense, romance, and mystery around a murder witnessed by a New York City janitor.
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A.
Bear Witness
"Bear Witness" is a song by the American indie rock band Lord Huron from their album "Strange Trails."
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B.
The Last Witness
The Last Witness is a film featuring British actress Saskia Reeves in a significant role.
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C.
On the Witness Stand
On the Witness Stand is a pioneering early 20th-century book on forensic psychology that examines the reliability of eyewitness testimony and the application of psychological principles to legal proceedings.
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D.
I Witnessed a Crime
"I Witnessed a Crime" is a moody, soulful rock song by The Horrible Crowes, the side project of The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon known for its dark, atmospheric sound.
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E.
Witness
Witness is a 1985 crime drama film directed by Peter Weir, best known for its story about a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder and the detective who protects him.
- 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: Eyewitness Description of subject: Eyewitness is a 1981 American thriller film starring William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver that blends suspense, romance, and mystery around a murder witnessed by a New York City janitor.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.