Riff-Raff
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Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351021 — 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: Riff-Raff Context triple: [Ken Loach, notableWork, Riff-Raff]
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Little Black Devils
Little Black Devils is the historic nickname of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, a distinguished infantry regiment of the Canadian Army known for its long service and battle honours.
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Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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The Cripples
"The Cripples" is a 1949 painting by British artist L. S. Lowry depicting a crowded urban scene populated by disabled and marginalized figures, reflecting his characteristic social realism and interest in industrial life.
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Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
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Aristocrat of Bands
Aristocrat of Bands is the renowned marching band of Tennessee State University, celebrated for its high-energy performances, precision drills, and influential role in HBCU band culture.
- 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: Riff-Raff Target entity description: Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
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A.
Little Black Devils
Little Black Devils is the historic nickname of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, a distinguished infantry regiment of the Canadian Army known for its long service and battle honours.
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B.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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C.
The Cripples
"The Cripples" is a 1949 painting by British artist L. S. Lowry depicting a crowded urban scene populated by disabled and marginalized figures, reflecting his characteristic social realism and interest in industrial life.
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D.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
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E.
Aristocrat of Bands
Aristocrat of Bands is the renowned marching band of Tennessee State University, celebrated for its high-energy performances, precision drills, and influential role in HBCU band culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Riff-Raff Description of subject: Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Riff-Raff
linked to: Riff-Raff