Smut
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Smut is a character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for his morbid fascination with death and his role in the movie’s numerically structured narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smut canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660883 — 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: Smut Context triple: [Drowning by Numbers, character, Smut]
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A.
Bremia
Bremia is a genus of downy mildew-causing oomycete plant pathogens best known for infecting lettuce and other members of the Asteraceae family.
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B.
Boehmeriopsis
Boehmeriopsis is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to parts of Asia and known for its herbaceous species.
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C.
Gomba
Gomba is a district within the Buganda region of central Uganda, known primarily for its rural communities and agricultural activities.
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D.
Fractofusus
Fractofusus is an extinct, frond-shaped organism from the late Ediacaran period, notable for its simple, quilted body plan and importance in understanding early multicellular life.
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E.
The Germ
The Germ was a short-lived 1850 periodical founded by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to promote their artistic and literary ideals.
- 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: Smut Target entity description: Smut is a character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for his morbid fascination with death and his role in the movie’s numerically structured narrative.
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A.
Bremia
Bremia is a genus of downy mildew-causing oomycete plant pathogens best known for infecting lettuce and other members of the Asteraceae family.
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B.
Boehmeriopsis
Boehmeriopsis is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to parts of Asia and known for its herbaceous species.
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C.
Gomba
Gomba is a district within the Buganda region of central Uganda, known primarily for its rural communities and agricultural activities.
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D.
Fractofusus
Fractofusus is an extinct, frond-shaped organism from the late Ediacaran period, notable for its simple, quilted body plan and importance in understanding early multicellular life.
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E.
The Germ
The Germ was a short-lived 1850 periodical founded by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to promote their artistic and literary ideals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Drowning by Numbers ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
counting
ⓘ
death ⓘ games ⓘ rules ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Peter Greenaway ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | non-real person ⓘ |
| genreContext | dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | Drowning by Numbers ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOn | death as a game ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
morbid fascination with death
ⓘ
obsessive interest in games ⓘ |
| isCentralTo | film’s counting motif ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
commentator on death
ⓘ
structuring device for the film’s numerical pattern ⓘ |
| partOfNarrativeStructure | numerically structured narrative of Drowning by Numbers ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| toneContext | darkly comic ⓘ |
| workDirector | Peter Greenaway ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
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: Smut Description of subject: Smut is a character in Peter Greenaway’s darkly comic film "Drowning by Numbers," known for his morbid fascination with death and his role in the movie’s numerically structured narrative.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.