The Towering Inferno
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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film about a catastrophic fire in a newly opened skyscraper, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Fred Astaire, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Towering Inferno canonical | 58 |
| The Towering Inferno (1974 film) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341812 — 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 Towering Inferno Context triple: [Fred Astaire, notableWork, The Towering Inferno]
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A.
Backdraft
Backdraft is a 1991 action-thriller film about Chicago firefighters, directed by Ron Howard and known for its intense fire sequences and exploration of arson investigations.
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B.
Urgent Fury
Urgent Fury was the U.S.-led 1983 military invasion of Grenada aimed at overthrowing its Marxist government and restoring a pro-Western regime.
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C.
Million Dollar Staircase
The Million Dollar Staircase is an ornate, late-19th-century grand staircase renowned for its elaborate stone carvings and opulent design inside the New York State Capitol in Albany.
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D.
Terminus
Terminus was the original 19th-century name for the settlement that later became the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
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E.
Jaws
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg about a great white shark that terrorizes a New England beach town.
- 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 Towering Inferno Target entity description: The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film about a catastrophic fire in a newly opened skyscraper, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Fred Astaire, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen.
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A.
Backdraft
Backdraft is a 1991 action-thriller film about Chicago firefighters, directed by Ron Howard and known for its intense fire sequences and exploration of arson investigations.
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B.
Urgent Fury
Urgent Fury was the U.S.-led 1983 military invasion of Grenada aimed at overthrowing its Marxist government and restoring a pro-Western regime.
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C.
Million Dollar Staircase
The Million Dollar Staircase is an ornate, late-19th-century grand staircase renowned for its elaborate stone carvings and opulent design inside the New York State Capitol in Albany.
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D.
Terminus
Terminus was the original 19th-century name for the settlement that later became the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
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E.
Jaws
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg about a great white shark that terrorizes a New England beach town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Towering Inferno Description of subject: The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film about a catastrophic fire in a newly opened skyscraper, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Fred Astaire, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Frederick
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The Tower by Richard Martin Stern
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The Tower by Richard Martin Stern
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The Tower by Richard Martin Stern
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The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson
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The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson
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John
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John
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Guillermin
linked to: The Towering Inferno
linked to: The Towering Inferno
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Kress
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Silliphant
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Fred
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Fred
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