Maximum Overdrive
E192813
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maximum Overdrive canonical | 17 |
| Maximum Overdrive (1986 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714747 — 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: Maximum Overdrive Context triple: [Night Shift, hasAdaptation, Maximum Overdrive]
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A.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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B.
Overdrive
Overdrive is an action-packed heist film centered on high-end car thieves, starring Scott Eastwood.
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C.
Shockwave
Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
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D.
Supersonic
"Supersonic" is a 1994 Britpop anthem by English rock band Oasis, known for its swaggering style, distinctive guitar riff, and role in establishing the band's early fame.
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E.
La Rampa
La Rampa is a famous, bustling avenue in Havana’s Vedado district known for its mid-20th-century architecture, nightlife, and cultural landmarks.
- 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: Maximum Overdrive Target entity description: Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
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A.
Overload
"Overload" is a song by the Christian rock band Darkness and Light, likely featuring their characteristic blend of heavy guitar-driven sound and spiritually themed lyrics.
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B.
Overdrive
Overdrive is an action-packed heist film centered on high-end car thieves, starring Scott Eastwood.
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C.
Shockwave
Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
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D.
Supersonic
"Supersonic" is a 1994 Britpop anthem by English rock band Oasis, known for its swaggering style, distinctive guitar riff, and role in establishing the band's early fame.
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E.
La Rampa
La Rampa is a famous, bustling avenue in Havana’s Vedado district known for its mid-20th-century architecture, nightlife, and cultural landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Maximum Overdrive Description of subject: Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maximum Overdrive
linked to: Maximum Overdrive