Straw Dogs
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Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, known for its intense exploration of violence and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Straw Dogs canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4287953 — 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: Straw Dogs Context triple: [Jerry Fielding, notableWork, Straw Dogs]
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A.
Act of Violence
Act of Violence is a 1948 American film noir thriller about a World War II veteran haunted by his past, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Fred Zinnemann.
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B.
Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings is a 1976 supernatural horror film about a family menaced by a malevolent house, noted for its atmospheric dread and starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed.
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C.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film directed by David Cronenberg about twin gynecologists whose identities and sanity unravel, in which Jill Hennessy appears in an early role.
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D.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 cult road movie known for its minimalist style, existential themes, and portrayal of car-obsessed drifters racing across the American Southwest.
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E.
Bloodsport
Bloodsport is a DC Comics antihero and assassin known for his expert marksmanship and use of advanced weaponry, notably appearing as a central member of the team in *The Suicide Squad* (2021).
- 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: Straw Dogs Target entity description: Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, known for its intense exploration of violence and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Act of Violence
Act of Violence is a 1948 American film noir thriller about a World War II veteran haunted by his past, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Fred Zinnemann.
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B.
Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings is a 1976 supernatural horror film about a family menaced by a malevolent house, noted for its atmospheric dread and starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed.
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C.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film directed by David Cronenberg about twin gynecologists whose identities and sanity unravel, in which Jill Hennessy appears in an early role.
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D.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 cult road movie known for its minimalist style, existential themes, and portrayal of car-obsessed drifters racing across the American Southwest.
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E.
Bloodsport
Bloodsport is a DC Comics antihero and assassin known for his expert marksmanship and use of advanced weaponry, notably appearing as a central member of the team in *The Suicide Squad* (2021).
- 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: Straw Dogs Description of subject: Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah, known for its intense exploration of violence and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.