The Sting
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The Sting is a 1973 American caper film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, renowned for its intricate con-artist plot, period 1930s setting, and multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sting canonical | 78 |
| The Sting film series | 1 |
| The Sting franchise | 1 |
| The Sting won Academy Award for Best Picture | 1 |
| The Sting won the Academy Award for Best Picture | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009646 — 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 Sting Context triple: [Robert Shaw, notableWork, The Sting]
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A.
Coming Home
"Coming Home" is a song featured on the album "Once Again," likely recognized as one of its individual tracks.
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B.
Coming Home
Coming Home is a 1978 American drama film about Vietnam War veterans’ struggles to readjust to civilian life, acclaimed for its powerful performances and anti-war themes.
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C.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
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D.
Tin Cup
Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic sports comedy film about a washed-up golf pro seeking redemption, best known for starring Kevin Costner.
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E.
The French Connection
The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its gritty realism and iconic car chase as New York City detectives pursue an international heroin smuggling ring.
- 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 Sting Target entity description: The Sting is a 1973 American caper film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, renowned for its intricate con-artist plot, period 1930s setting, and multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture.
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A.
Coming Home
"Coming Home" is a song featured on the album "Once Again," likely recognized as one of its individual tracks.
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B.
Coming Home
Coming Home is a 1978 American drama film about Vietnam War veterans’ struggles to readjust to civilian life, acclaimed for its powerful performances and anti-war themes.
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C.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
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D.
Tin Cup
Tin Cup is a 1996 romantic sports comedy film about a washed-up golf pro seeking redemption, best known for starring Kevin Costner.
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E.
The French Connection
The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its gritty realism and iconic car chase as New York City detectives pursue an international heroin smuggling ring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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 Sting Description of subject: The Sting is a 1973 American caper film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, renowned for its intricate con-artist plot, period 1930s setting, and multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting
subject linked to:
Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting
linked to: The Sting
subject linked to:
Hamlisch
subject linked to:
Durning
subject linked to:
Johnny Hooker in The Sting
subject linked to:
Johnny Hooker in The Sting
subject linked to:
Johnny Hooker in The Sting
linked to: The Sting