The Snowmen
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"The Snowmen" is a 2012 Doctor Who Christmas special featuring the Eleventh Doctor, the introduction of Clara Oswald as a new companion, and sinister living snowmen as the main antagonists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Snowmen canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3924093 — 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 Snowmen Context triple: [The Angels Take Manhattan, followedByEpisode, The Snowmen]
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A.
The Snowman
The Snowman is a 2017 crime thriller film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer who leaves snowmen at his crime scenes.
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B.
La sociedad de la nieve
La sociedad de la nieve is a Spanish-language survival drama film that recounts the true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby team’s harrowing struggle to stay alive.
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C.
Snowman
Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
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D.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- 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 Snowmen Target entity description: "The Snowmen" is a 2012 Doctor Who Christmas special featuring the Eleventh Doctor, the introduction of Clara Oswald as a new companion, and sinister living snowmen as the main antagonists.
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A.
The Snowman
The Snowman is a 2017 crime thriller film adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel, following a detective hunting a serial killer who leaves snowmen at his crime scenes.
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B.
La sociedad de la nieve
La sociedad de la nieve is a Spanish-language survival drama film that recounts the true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby team’s harrowing struggle to stay alive.
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C.
Snowman
Snowman is the post-apocalyptic survivor and narrator of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake," through whose perspective the story’s ruined world and its origins are revealed.
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D.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- 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 Snowmen Description of subject: "The Snowmen" is a 2012 Doctor Who Christmas special featuring the Eleventh Doctor, the introduction of Clara Oswald as a new companion, and sinister living snowmen as the main antagonists.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episode "The Angels Take Manhattan"
subject linked to:
The Great Intelligence in Doctor Who