The Informant!
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The Informant! is a 2009 dark comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh, in which Matt Damon plays a corporate executive turned whistleblower in a real-life price-fixing scandal.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Informant! canonical | 21 |
| The Informant: A True Story | 3 |
| The Informant | 2 |
| film "The Informant!" | 1 |
| film "The Informant!" (based on his book) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T309252 — 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 Informant! Context triple: [Matt Damon, notableWork, The Informant!]
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A.
The Insider (film)
The Insider is a 1999 drama film directed by Michael Mann that dramatizes tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand’s revelations and their broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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B.
Syriana
"Syriana" is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film that interweaves multiple storylines to explore the complexities of the global oil industry, U.S. foreign policy, and Middle Eastern politics.
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C.
White House Plumbers
White House Plumbers was a covert Nixon White House unit created to stop and retaliate against leaks, best known for its role in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
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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E.
The Great American Lie
The Great American Lie is a documentary film that examines economic inequality and the cultural values underpinning the American Dream, directed by filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
- 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 Informant! Target entity description: The Informant! is a 2009 dark comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh, in which Matt Damon plays a corporate executive turned whistleblower in a real-life price-fixing scandal.
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A.
The Insider (film)
The Insider is a 1999 drama film directed by Michael Mann that dramatizes tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand’s revelations and their broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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B.
Syriana
"Syriana" is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film that interweaves multiple storylines to explore the complexities of the global oil industry, U.S. foreign policy, and Middle Eastern politics.
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C.
White House Plumbers
White House Plumbers was a covert Nixon White House unit created to stop and retaliate against leaks, best known for its role in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
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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E.
The Great American Lie
The Great American Lie is a documentary film that examines economic inequality and the cultural values underpinning the American Dream, directed by filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
- 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 Informant! Description of subject: The Informant! is a 2009 dark comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh, in which Matt Damon plays a corporate executive turned whistleblower in a real-life price-fixing scandal.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Eichenwald
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Eichenwald
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kurteichenwald
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Lynskey