The Substitute
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The Substitute is a 1996 action-thriller film about a mercenary who goes undercover as a high school teacher to confront violent gangs and corruption.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Substitute canonical | 5 |
| The Substitute (1996 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3833492 — 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: The Substitute Context triple: [William Forsythe, playedIn, The Substitute]
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A.
The Holdovers
The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne about a curmudgeonly teacher stuck supervising students over Christmas break at a New England boarding school.
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B.
A Teacher
A Teacher is a 2013 drama film and later television miniseries that explores the illicit relationship between a high school teacher and her student.
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C.
Akeelah and the Bee
Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film about a young girl from South Los Angeles who competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, and Angela Bassett.
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D.
The Babysitters
The Babysitters is a poem by Sylvia Plath that reflects her characteristic blend of domestic imagery and psychological intensity.
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E.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
- 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: The Substitute Target entity description: The Substitute is a 1996 action-thriller film about a mercenary who goes undercover as a high school teacher to confront violent gangs and corruption.
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A.
The Holdovers
The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne about a curmudgeonly teacher stuck supervising students over Christmas break at a New England boarding school.
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B.
A Teacher
A Teacher is a 2013 drama film and later television miniseries that explores the illicit relationship between a high school teacher and her student.
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C.
Akeelah and the Bee
Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film about a young girl from South Los Angeles who competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, and Angela Bassett.
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D.
The Babysitters
The Babysitters is a poem by Sylvia Plath that reflects her characteristic blend of domestic imagery and psychological intensity.
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E.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Substitute Description of subject: The Substitute is a 1996 action-thriller film about a mercenary who goes undercover as a high school teacher to confront violent gangs and corruption.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Substitute
linked to: The Substitute