Captain Phillips
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Captain Phillips is a 2013 biographical thriller film starring Tom Hanks that dramatizes the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T296123 — 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: Captain Phillips Context triple: [Max Martini, notableWork, Captain Phillips]
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Argo
Argo is a 2012 political thriller film directed by Ben Affleck that dramatizes a covert operation to rescue American hostages from Iran during the 1979–1981 crisis.
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Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx executive stranded alone on a deserted island, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a 2017 war film directed by Christopher Nolan that depicts the World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a coastal town in northern France best known as the site of the World War II evacuation of Allied troops in 1940.
- 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: Captain Phillips Target entity description: Captain Phillips is a 2013 biographical thriller film starring Tom Hanks that dramatizes the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates.
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A.
Argo
Argo is a 2012 political thriller film directed by Ben Affleck that dramatizes a covert operation to rescue American hostages from Iran during the 1979–1981 crisis.
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B.
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx executive stranded alone on a deserted island, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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C.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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D.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a 2017 war film directed by Christopher Nolan that depicts the World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
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E.
Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a coastal town in northern France best known as the site of the World War II evacuation of Allied troops in 1940.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Captain Phillips Description of subject: Captain Phillips is a 2013 biographical thriller film starring Tom Hanks that dramatizes the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Captain Phillips
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A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea
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Richard Phillips
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"A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea"
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linked to: Captain Phillips
linked to: Captain Phillips
linked to: Captain Phillips
linked to: Captain Phillips
subject linked to:
Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)
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Greengrass
linked to: Captain Phillips
subject linked to:
Barkhad
A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea
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Captain Phillips
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linked to: Captain Phillips
subject linked to:
Andrea Phillips
linked to: Captain Phillips