The Package
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"The Package" is a 1989 political thriller film starring Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy, centered on a military conspiracy to assassinate a Soviet leader.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Package canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11517980 — 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 Package Context triple: [Joanna Cassidy, notableWork, The Package]
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A.
The Package
"The Package" is a science fiction work by American author and psychiatrist Janet Opal Jeppson (also known as J.O. Jeppson and Janet Asimov), reflecting her characteristic blend of speculative ideas and psychological insight.
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B.
The Box
"The Box" is a 2019 trap/hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch that became a viral hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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C.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
The Box
The Box is a 2009 psychological thriller film directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” in which a couple is offered a mysterious box that grants wealth at the cost of a stranger’s life.
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E.
The Box
The Box is an Australian television soap opera produced in the 1970s that became known for its risqué content and behind-the-scenes look at a fictional TV station.
- 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 Package Target entity description: "The Package" is a 1989 political thriller film starring Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy, centered on a military conspiracy to assassinate a Soviet leader.
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A.
The Package
"The Package" is a science fiction work by American author and psychiatrist Janet Opal Jeppson (also known as J.O. Jeppson and Janet Asimov), reflecting her characteristic blend of speculative ideas and psychological insight.
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B.
The Box
"The Box" is a 2019 trap/hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch that became a viral hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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C.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
The Box
The Box is a 2009 psychological thriller film directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” in which a couple is offered a mysterious box that grants wealth at the cost of a stranger’s life.
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E.
The Box
The Box is an Australian television soap opera produced in the 1970s that became known for its risqué content and behind-the-scenes look at a fictional TV station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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political thriller film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Frank Tidy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
Soviet Union
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Andrew Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Orion Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Don Brochu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
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West Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action thriller
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political thriller ⓘ |
| hasPosterTagline | The most dangerous thing about the package is the man who delivers it. ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
assassination plot
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military conspiracy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A U.S. Army sergeant escorts a prisoner who becomes central to a conspiracy to assassinate a Soviet leader and sabotage a disarmament summit. ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Gene Hackman as Johnny Gallagher
NERFINISHED
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Joanna Cassidy as Eileen Gallagher NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Lee Jones as Thomas Boyette ⓘ |
| producer |
Andrew Davis
NERFINISHED
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Arnold Kopelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Kopelson Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 108 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late Cold War ⓘ |
| starring |
Dennis Franz
NERFINISHED
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Gene Hackman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanna Cassidy NERFINISHED ⓘ John Heard NERFINISHED ⓘ Pam Grier NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Lee Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Package 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 Package Description of subject: "The Package" is a 1989 political thriller film starring Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy, centered on a military conspiracy to assassinate a Soviet leader.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.