Fanatic
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Fanatic is a 1996 American thriller film starring William Baldwin and directed by Tony Scott, centered on an obsessive fan whose fixation turns dangerously violent.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fanatic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10261512 — 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: Fanatic Context triple: [Speechless, producer, Fanatic]
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A.
Fanatikerne
Fanatikerne is a notable painting by Norwegian artist Adolph Tidemand depicting religious zealots in a dramatic, realist style.
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B.
Fan
Fan is a common Chinese surname borne by numerous historical and contemporary figures across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
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C.
Diehard
Diehard is a well-known, short-lived pattern in Conway’s Game of Life that survives for many generations before eventually disappearing.
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D.
Big Fan
Big Fan is a dark comedy-drama film about an obsessive New York Giants fan whose life unravels after a violent encounter with his favorite player.
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E.
Appassionato
Appassionato is a jazz album by virtuoso guitarist Joe Pass, showcasing his refined technique and lyrical improvisation.
- 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: Fanatic Target entity description: Fanatic is a 1996 American thriller film starring William Baldwin and directed by Tony Scott, centered on an obsessive fan whose fixation turns dangerously violent.
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A.
Fanatikerne
Fanatikerne is a notable painting by Norwegian artist Adolph Tidemand depicting religious zealots in a dramatic, realist style.
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B.
Fan
Fan is a common Chinese surname borne by numerous historical and contemporary figures across politics, arts, sports, and other fields.
-
C.
Diehard
Diehard is a well-known, short-lived pattern in Conway’s Game of Life that survives for many generations before eventually disappearing.
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D.
Big Fan
Big Fan is a dark comedy-drama film about an obsessive New York Giants fan whose life unravels after a violent encounter with his favorite player.
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E.
Appassionato
Appassionato is a jazz album by virtuoso guitarist Joe Pass, showcasing his refined technique and lyrical improvisation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributor | unknown ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological thriller
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | William Baldwin ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
celebrity victim
ⓘ
obsessive fan ⓘ |
| hasCinematographyBy | unknown ⓘ |
| hasDirector | Tony Scott ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | unknown ⓘ |
| hasProducer | unknown ⓘ |
| hasProductionCompany | unknown ⓘ |
| hasScreenwriter | unknown ⓘ |
| hasStarring | William Baldwin ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
obsessive fan
ⓘ
stalking ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| narrativeTheme |
dangerous obsession
ⓘ
fan culture ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtime | unknown ⓘ |
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: Fanatic Description of subject: Fanatic is a 1996 American thriller film starring William Baldwin and directed by Tony Scott, centered on an obsessive fan whose fixation turns dangerously violent.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.