The Killers
E174821
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, that helped launch Burt Lancaster’s film career and is regarded as a classic of the genre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Killers canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1532965 — 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 Killers Context triple: [Ava Gardner, notableWork, The Killers]
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A.
The Killers
The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
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B.
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, known for hits like "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and for blending Southern rock, alternative, and arena rock styles.
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C.
Hinder
Hinder is an American rock band best known for their mid-2000s hit "Lips of an Angel" and their post-grunge, hard rock sound.
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D.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
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E.
Blue October
Blue October is an American alternative rock band known for emotionally charged songs like "Hate Me" and "Into the Ocean."
- 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 Killers Target entity description: The Killers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, that helped launch Burt Lancaster’s film career and is regarded as a classic of the genre.
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A.
The Killers
The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas known for their anthemic, Springsteen-tinged indie rock hits like "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young."
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B.
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, known for hits like "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and for blending Southern rock, alternative, and arena rock styles.
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C.
Hinder
Hinder is an American rock band best known for their mid-2000s hit "Lips of an Angel" and their post-grunge, hard rock sound.
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D.
Gaslight Anthem
Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Jersey known for its heartland punk sound, blue-collar storytelling, and frequent comparisons to Bruce Springsteen.
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E.
Blue October
Blue October is an American alternative rock band known for emotionally charged songs like "Hate Me" and "Into the Ocean."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Killers Description of subject: The Killers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, that helped launch Burt Lancaster’s film career and is regarded as a classic of the genre.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.