The Contractor
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The Contractor is an action-thriller film starring Ben Foster as a discharged Special Forces sergeant who joins a private military operation that quickly goes wrong.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Contractor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5727705 — 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 Contractor Context triple: [Ben Foster, notableWork, The Contractor]
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
El hacedor
El hacedor is a 1960 collection of short prose pieces and poems by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of time, identity, and the nature of authorship in his characteristically metafictional style.
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C.
The Demolitionist
The Demolitionist is a 1995 low-budget sci-fi action-horror film about a murdered female cop resurrected as a cybernetic vigilante, directed by special effects artist Robert Kurtzman.
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D.
The Builders
The Builders is a modernist painting by French artist Fernand Léger that depicts construction workers amid geometric forms, celebrating industrialization and urban life.
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E.
The Builders
"The Builders" is a classic episode of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers in which a disastrously cheap construction job wreaks havoc on Basil Fawlty's hotel.
- 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 Contractor Target entity description: The Contractor is an action-thriller film starring Ben Foster as a discharged Special Forces sergeant who joins a private military operation that quickly goes wrong.
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
El hacedor
El hacedor is a 1960 collection of short prose pieces and poems by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of time, identity, and the nature of authorship in his characteristically metafictional style.
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C.
The Demolitionist
The Demolitionist is a 1995 low-budget sci-fi action-horror film about a murdered female cop resurrected as a cybernetic vigilante, directed by special effects artist Robert Kurtzman.
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D.
The Builders
The Builders is a modernist painting by French artist Fernand Léger that depicts construction workers amid geometric forms, celebrating industrialization and urban life.
-
E.
The Builders
"The Builders" is a classic episode of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers in which a disastrously cheap construction job wreaks havoc on Basil Fawlty's hotel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| castMember | Ben Foster ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresPrivateMilitaryCompany | true ⓘ |
| follows | a discharged Special Forces sergeant who joins a private military operation ⓘ |
| genre |
action
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasConflictType | covert military mission gone wrong ⓘ |
| hasFormat | live-action ⓘ |
| hasLeadActorRole | Ben Foster as the discharged Special Forces sergeant ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryTheme | true ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | discharged Special Forces sergeant ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | fans of action-thriller films ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loyalty under pressure
ⓘ
survival ⓘ trust and betrayal in private military work ⓘ |
| hasTone |
intense
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ |
| includesElement |
combat sequences
ⓘ
conspiracy ⓘ covert operations ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | Special Forces sergeant ⓘ |
| mainCharacterStatus | discharged soldier ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | private military operations ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotEvent | a private military operation goes wrong ⓘ |
| primarySettingType | modern military context ⓘ |
| starring | Ben Foster ⓘ |
| workType | feature film ⓘ |
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 Contractor Description of subject: The Contractor is an action-thriller film starring Ben Foster as a discharged Special Forces sergeant who joins a private military operation that quickly goes wrong.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.