The Snowman (2017 film)
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The Snowman (2017 film) is a 2017 crime thriller based on Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer in snowy Norway.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Snowman (2017 film) canonical | 9 |
| The Snowman | 2 |
| The Snowman (1982 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217402 — 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 (2017 film) Context triple: [Peter Straughan, notableWork, The Snowman (2017 film)]
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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.
Klaus
Klaus is a masculine given name of German origin commonly used in German-speaking countries.
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C.
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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D.
A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is a dark fantasy drama film that blends emotional coming-of-age storytelling with supernatural elements as a young boy copes with his mother's terminal illness through visits from a giant tree-like monster.
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E.
Marwencol
Marwencol is a 2010 documentary film that follows Mark Hogancamp, a man who copes with trauma by building and photographing an intricate World War II-era miniature town in his backyard.
- 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 (2017 film) Target entity description: The Snowman (2017 film) is a 2017 crime thriller based on Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer in snowy Norway.
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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.
Klaus
Klaus is a masculine given name of German origin commonly used in German-speaking countries.
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C.
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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D.
A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is a dark fantasy drama film that blends emotional coming-of-age storytelling with supernatural elements as a young boy copes with his mother's terminal illness through visits from a giant tree-like monster.
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E.
Marwencol
Marwencol is a 2010 documentary film that follows Mark Hogancamp, a man who copes with trauma by building and photographing an intricate World War II-era miniature town in his backyard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 (2017 film) Description of subject: The Snowman (2017 film) is a 2017 crime thriller based on Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer in snowy Norway.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Snowman (2017 film)
linked to: The Snowman (2017 film)
linked to: The Snowman (2017 film)