Matewan
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Matewan is a 1987 American historical drama film directed by John Sayles that depicts a violent coal miners' strike in 1920s West Virginia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matewan canonical | 12 |
| Matewan, West Virginia | 4 |
| film "Matewan" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3819702 — 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: Matewan Context triple: [Haskell Wexler, notableWork, Matewan]
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A.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
Thunderbolt, Georgia is a small coastal town in Chatham County known for its historic shrimping industry and location along the Wilmington River just east of Savannah.
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B.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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C.
Selma
Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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D.
Selma
Selma is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its raisin production and location within Fresno County.
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E.
Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film, loosely based on the real-life 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi, that explores racism and FBI investigation in the Deep South.
- 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: Matewan Target entity description: Matewan is a 1987 American historical drama film directed by John Sayles that depicts a violent coal miners' strike in 1920s West Virginia.
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A.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
Thunderbolt, Georgia is a small coastal town in Chatham County known for its historic shrimping industry and location along the Wilmington River just east of Savannah.
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B.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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C.
Selma
Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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D.
Selma
Selma is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its raisin production and location within Fresno County.
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E.
Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film, loosely based on the real-life 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi, that explores racism and FBI investigation in the Deep South.
- 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: Matewan Description of subject: Matewan is a 1987 American historical drama film directed by John Sayles that depicts a violent coal miners' strike in 1920s West Virginia.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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