A Scanner Darkly
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A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 animated science fiction thriller film, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, that explores identity, surveillance, and drug addiction through rotoscope-animated performances including Keanu Reeves.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Scanner Darkly canonical | 11 |
| A Scanner Darkly (film) | 2 |
| A Scanner Darkly (2006 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3120833 — 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: A Scanner Darkly Context triple: [Keanu Reeves, notableWork, A Scanner Darkly]
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A.
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream is a psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky that portrays the devastating impact of addiction on four interconnected characters.
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B.
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis is a 2003 novel by Don DeLillo that follows a billionaire asset manager’s disorienting limousine ride across Manhattan, exploring themes of capitalism, technology, and existential alienation.
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C.
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a famous scenic road in Los Angeles known for its sweeping views of the city, the San Fernando Valley, and the Hollywood Hills.
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D.
Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 cult classic psychological drama film directed by David Fincher, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, that explores consumerism, identity, and masculinity through the formation of an underground fighting club.
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E.
Inception
Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist film directed by Christopher Nolan that explores dream manipulation and shared subconscious worlds.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Scanner Darkly Target entity description: A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 animated science fiction thriller film, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, that explores identity, surveillance, and drug addiction through rotoscope-animated performances including Keanu Reeves.
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A.
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream is a psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky that portrays the devastating impact of addiction on four interconnected characters.
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B.
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis is a 2003 novel by Don DeLillo that follows a billionaire asset manager’s disorienting limousine ride across Manhattan, exploring themes of capitalism, technology, and existential alienation.
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C.
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive is a famous scenic road in Los Angeles known for its sweeping views of the city, the San Fernando Valley, and the Hollywood Hills.
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D.
Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 cult classic psychological drama film directed by David Fincher, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, that explores consumerism, identity, and masculinity through the formation of an underground fighting club.
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E.
Inception
Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist film directed by Christopher Nolan that explores dream manipulation and shared subconscious worlds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: A Scanner Darkly Description of subject: A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 animated science fiction thriller film, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel, that explores identity, surveillance, and drug addiction through rotoscope-animated performances including Keanu Reeves.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Scanner Darkly
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Philip
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