Midnight Express
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Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film about an American student jailed in Turkey for drug smuggling, noted for its intense performances and controversial portrayal of the Turkish justice system.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Midnight Express canonical | 20 |
| Midnight Express (1978 film) | 2 |
| Midnight Express (book) | 2 |
| 1978 film Midnight Express | 1 |
| Midnight Express (film score) | 1 |
| Rifki in Midnight Express | 1 |
| The Midnight Express | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2710255 — 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: Midnight Express Context triple: [John Hurt, knownFor, Midnight Express]
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A.
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness is a popular late-night program at the Toronto International Film Festival that showcases genre films such as horror, action, and cult cinema.
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Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is one of The Allman Brothers Band’s signature Southern rock songs, known for its haunting melody, reflective lyrics, and enduring influence on rock and country music.
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C.
Non-Stop
Non-Stop is a 2014 action-thriller film in which Liam Neeson plays an air marshal trying to stop a mysterious hijacker during a transatlantic flight.
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D.
Non-Stop
"Non-Stop" is the fast-paced, act-ending ensemble number from the Broadway musical *Hamilton* that chronicles Alexander Hamilton’s relentless work ethic and rise in early American politics.
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E.
Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire is a 1984 neo-noir rock musical action film directed by Walter Hill, known for its stylized visuals, blend of 1950s aesthetics with 1980s rock, and cult following.
- 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: Midnight Express Target entity description: Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film about an American student jailed in Turkey for drug smuggling, noted for its intense performances and controversial portrayal of the Turkish justice system.
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A.
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness is a popular late-night program at the Toronto International Film Festival that showcases genre films such as horror, action, and cult cinema.
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B.
Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is one of The Allman Brothers Band’s signature Southern rock songs, known for its haunting melody, reflective lyrics, and enduring influence on rock and country music.
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C.
Non-Stop
Non-Stop is a 2014 action-thriller film in which Liam Neeson plays an air marshal trying to stop a mysterious hijacker during a transatlantic flight.
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D.
Non-Stop
"Non-Stop" is the fast-paced, act-ending ensemble number from the Broadway musical *Hamilton* that chronicles Alexander Hamilton’s relentless work ethic and rise in early American politics.
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E.
Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire is a 1984 neo-noir rock musical action film directed by Walter Hill, known for its stylized visuals, blend of 1950s aesthetics with 1980s rock, and cult following.
- 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: Midnight Express Description of subject: Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film about an American student jailed in Turkey for drug smuggling, noted for its intense performances and controversial portrayal of the Turkish justice system.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Max in Midnight Express
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Max in Midnight Express
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Max in Midnight Express
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Max in Midnight Express
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Baron Puttnam
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