Bowie
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Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bowie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5286715 — 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: Bowie Context triple: [They Live by Night, mainCharacter, Bowie]
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A.
Bowie
Bowie is a given name most notably associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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B.
David Bowie
David Bowie was an influential English singer, songwriter, and actor renowned for his innovative music, distinctive visual style, and continual reinvention across a five-decade career.
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C.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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D.
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry is an English singer, songwriter, and former Roxy Music frontman known for his suave vocal style and influential role in art rock and glam rock.
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E.
Bond
Bond is a survivor perk in Dead by Daylight that allows players to see the auras of nearby teammates, enhancing coordination and support.
- 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: Bowie Target entity description: Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
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A.
Bowie
Bowie is a given name most notably associated with Bowie Kuhn, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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B.
David Bowie
David Bowie was an influential English singer, songwriter, and actor renowned for his innovative music, distinctive visual style, and continual reinvention across a five-decade career.
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C.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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D.
Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry is an English singer, songwriter, and former Roxy Music frontman known for his suave vocal style and influential role in art rock and glam rock.
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E.
Bond
Bond is a survivor perk in Dead by Daylight that allows players to see the auras of nearby teammates, enhancing coordination and support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | They Live by Night ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
crime and punishment
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escape and pursuit ⓘ fatalism ⓘ innocence lost ⓘ tragic romance ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
criminal entanglements
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doomed romance ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
inexperienced
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vulnerable ⓘ young ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional context)
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linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
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| drivesPlotOf | They Live by Night ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
They Live by Night (film)
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linked to:
They Live by Night
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| genreContext |
crime film
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film noir ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
fugitive
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outlaw ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | They Live by Night ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| workDirector | Nicholas Ray ⓘ |
| workGenre | film noir ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workTitle | They Live by Night ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1948 ⓘ |
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: Bowie Description of subject: Bowie is the young fugitive protagonist of the 1948 American film noir "They Live by Night," whose doomed romance and criminal entanglements drive the story.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.