The Ferryman
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The Ferryman is a critically acclaimed stage play by Jez Butterworth, set in 1980s Northern Ireland during The Troubles, that explores family, loyalty, and political violence.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ferryman canonical | 31 |
| The Ferryman (stage play) | 2 |
| The Ferryman is an acclaimed stage play | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2246582 — 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 Ferryman Context triple: [Neal Street Productions, notableWork, The Ferryman]
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Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is a traditional Marian title that invokes the Virgin Mary as a guiding and protective figure for Christians, especially sailors and travelers.
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B.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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The Tale
The Tale is a 2018 autobiographical drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox, in which she reexamines a sexual relationship from her youth to confront the nature of memory and abuse.
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The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
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The Reivers
The Reivers is a 1962 novel by William Faulkner, a humorous coming-of-age tale set in the American South that was his last published work and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 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 Ferryman Target entity description: The Ferryman is a critically acclaimed stage play by Jez Butterworth, set in 1980s Northern Ireland during The Troubles, that explores family, loyalty, and political violence.
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A.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea is a traditional Marian title that invokes the Virgin Mary as a guiding and protective figure for Christians, especially sailors and travelers.
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B.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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C.
The Tale
The Tale is a 2018 autobiographical drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox, in which she reexamines a sexual relationship from her youth to confront the nature of memory and abuse.
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D.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
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E.
The Reivers
The Reivers is a 1962 novel by William Faulkner, a humorous coming-of-age tale set in the American South that was his last published work and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: The Ferryman Description of subject: The Ferryman is a critically acclaimed stage play by Jez Butterworth, set in 1980s Northern Ireland during The Troubles, that explores family, loyalty, and political violence.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Judy Warren in Annabelle Comes Home
linked to: The Ferryman