Dead Man Walking
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Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film about a death row inmate and a nun who becomes his spiritual advisor, noted for its powerful performances and exploration of capital punishment and redemption.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dead Man Walking canonical | 13 |
| Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States | 3 |
| 1995 film "Dead Man Walking" | 1 |
| Dead Man Walking (film) | 1 |
| film "Dead Man Walking" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217902 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dead Man Walking Context triple: [Sean Penn, notableWork, Dead Man Walking]
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The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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Along Came a Spider
Along Came a Spider is a bestselling crime thriller novel by James Patterson that introduces detective and psychologist Alex Cross as he investigates a high-profile kidnapping case.
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The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Guilty Men
Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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Prisoner
"Prisoner" is a dance-pop and R&B song by Mariah Carey from her 1990 self-titled debut album, showcasing her early blend of pop sensibilities with hip-hop influences.
- 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: Dead Man Walking Target entity description: Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film about a death row inmate and a nun who becomes his spiritual advisor, noted for its powerful performances and exploration of capital punishment and redemption.
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A.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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B.
Along Came a Spider
Along Came a Spider is a bestselling crime thriller novel by James Patterson that introduces detective and psychologist Alex Cross as he investigates a high-profile kidnapping case.
-
C.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
Guilty Men
Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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E.
Prisoner
"Prisoner" is a dance-pop and R&B song by Mariah Carey from her 1990 self-titled debut album, showcasing her early blend of pop sensibilities with hip-hop influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dead Man Walking Description of subject: Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film about a death row inmate and a nun who becomes his spiritual advisor, noted for its powerful performances and exploration of capital punishment and redemption.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
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Sister Helen Prejean
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
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