Spies Like Us
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Spies Like Us is a 1985 Cold War comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as inept government agents sent on a bogus espionage mission.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spies Like Us canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3215992 — 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: Spies Like Us Context triple: [Dan Aykroyd, notableWork, Spies Like Us]
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A.
Spies
Spies is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its intricate plotting, innovative visual style, and influence on the spy genre.
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B.
Spies
Spies is a German-origin surname most notably associated with August Spies, a prominent 19th-century anarchist and labor activist involved in the Haymarket affair.
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C.
Spies
Spies is a novel by Michael Frayn that explores childhood memory, secrecy, and the blurred line between imagination and reality in wartime England.
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D.
Men in Black
Men in Black is a popular sci-fi action-comedy film about a secret government agency that monitors and regulates extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
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E.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film about two con men on the French Riviera, best known for its witty script and Steve Martin’s acclaimed performance alongside Michael Caine.
- 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: Spies Like Us Target entity description: Spies Like Us is a 1985 Cold War comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as inept government agents sent on a bogus espionage mission.
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A.
Spies
Spies is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its intricate plotting, innovative visual style, and influence on the spy genre.
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B.
Spies
Spies is a German-origin surname most notably associated with August Spies, a prominent 19th-century anarchist and labor activist involved in the Haymarket affair.
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C.
Spies
Spies is a novel by Michael Frayn that explores childhood memory, secrecy, and the blurred line between imagination and reality in wartime England.
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D.
Men in Black
Men in Black is a popular sci-fi action-comedy film about a secret government agency that monitors and regulates extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
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E.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film about two con men on the French Riviera, best known for its witty script and Steve Martin’s acclaimed performance alongside Michael Caine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Spies Like Us Description of subject: Spies Like Us is a 1985 Cold War comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as inept government agents sent on a bogus espionage mission.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.