Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)
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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) is a Guy Ritchie–directed action-mystery adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) canonical | 32 |
| Sherlock Holmes (2010 film) | 1 |
| Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie films) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2673888 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Context triple: [Mark Strong, notableWork, Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)]
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A.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, serving as the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and following the famed detective’s battle against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.
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B.
Mr. Holmes (2015 film)
Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery drama film that portrays an aging Sherlock Holmes, played by Ian McKellen, grappling with his fading memory while revisiting an unsolved case from his past.
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C.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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D.
Sherlock
Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
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E.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
- 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: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Target entity description: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) is a Guy Ritchie–directed action-mystery adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson.
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A.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, serving as the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and following the famed detective’s battle against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.
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B.
Mr. Holmes (2015 film)
Mr. Holmes is a 2015 mystery drama film that portrays an aging Sherlock Holmes, played by Ian McKellen, grappling with his fading memory while revisiting an unsolved case from his past.
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C.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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D.
Sherlock
Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
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E.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
- 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: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Description of subject: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) is a Guy Ritchie–directed action-mystery adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ritchie
linked to: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)
subject linked to:
David Jude Heyworth Law
subject linked to:
Downey family
subject linked to:
Law family
linked to: Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)