Argo
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Argo is a 2012 political thriller film directed by Ben Affleck that dramatizes a covert operation to rescue American hostages from Iran during the 1979–1981 crisis.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Argo canonical | 41 |
| Argo (2012 film) | 2 |
| 2012 film Argo | 1 |
| Argo (covert operation) | 1 |
| Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T198057 — 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: Argo Context triple: [85th Academy Awards, bestPictureWinner, Argo]
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A.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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B.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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C.
Independence Day
Independence Day is a major U.S. federal holiday celebrated on July 4th commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, typically marked by fireworks, parades, and patriotic displays.
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D.
Independence Day
Independence Day is the annual national holiday in India commemorating the country's freedom from British colonial rule in 1947.
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E.
Independence Day
Independence Day is Mexico’s annual celebration of its 1810 uprising that launched the war for independence from Spanish rule, marked by patriotic ceremonies, fireworks, and public festivities.
- 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: Argo Target entity description: Argo is a 2012 political thriller film directed by Ben Affleck that dramatizes a covert operation to rescue American hostages from Iran during the 1979–1981 crisis.
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A.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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B.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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C.
Independence Day
Independence Day is a major U.S. federal holiday celebrated on July 4th commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, typically marked by fireworks, parades, and patriotic displays.
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D.
Independence Day
Independence Day is the annual national holiday in India commemorating the country's freedom from British colonial rule in 1947.
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E.
Independence Day
Independence Day is Mexico’s annual celebration of its 1810 uprising that launched the war for independence from Spanish rule, marked by patriotic ceremonies, fireworks, and public festivities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
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: Argo Description of subject: Argo is a 2012 political thriller film directed by Ben Affleck that dramatizes a covert operation to rescue American hostages from Iran during the 1979–1981 crisis.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Argo
Tony Mendez
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notableWork
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
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linked to: Argo
linked to: Argo
linked to: Argo
subject linked to:
Zeljko Ivanek
linked to: Argo
subject linked to:
Affleck family
subject linked to:
John