The Snowman
E244974
The Snowman is a 2017 crime thriller film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer who leaves snowmen at his crime scenes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Snowman canonical | 9 |
| The Snowman (novel) | 2 |
| The Snowman (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217310 — 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 Snowman Context triple: [Tomas Alfredson, notableWork, The Snowman]
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A.
Snowman
Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
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B.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 espionage drama film based on a true story about two young Americans who become spies for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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C.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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D.
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen is an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a powerful, cold-hearted queen and the perilous journey of a young girl to rescue her friend from the queen’s icy realm.
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E.
The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon is a classic 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a gentle, poetry-loving dragon who befriends a boy and challenges traditional notions of heroism and monsters.
- 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 Snowman Target entity description: The Snowman is a 2017 crime thriller film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer who leaves snowmen at his crime scenes.
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A.
Snowman
Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
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B.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 espionage drama film based on a true story about two young Americans who become spies for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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C.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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D.
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen is an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a powerful, cold-hearted queen and the perilous journey of a young girl to rescue her friend from the queen’s icy realm.
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E.
The Reluctant Dragon
The Reluctant Dragon is a classic 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame about a gentle, poetry-loving dragon who befriends a boy and challenges traditional notions of heroism and monsters.
- 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 Snowman Description of subject: The Snowman is a 2017 crime thriller film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer who leaves snowmen at his crime scenes.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.