The Dogs of War
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The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dogs of War canonical | 28 |
| The Dogs of War (1974 novel) | 3 |
| The Dogs of War (novel) | 3 |
| The Dogs of War (film) | 2 |
| The Dogs of War universe | 1 |
| appeared as Endean in "The Dogs of War" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763776 — 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 Dogs of War Context triple: [Christopher Walken, notableWork, The Dogs of War]
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The Thief and the Dogs
The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
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B.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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C.
Bullet the Wonder Dog
Bullet the Wonder Dog was Roy Rogers’ famous German Shepherd sidekick, known for appearing in his Western films and television shows as a heroic and intelligent companion.
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D.
Fierce Creatures
Fierce Creatures is a 1997 British comedy film, conceived as a spiritual successor to A Fish Called Wanda, featuring John Cleese and other members of that ensemble in a farcical story about a struggling zoo.
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E.
The Trail of the Beast
The Trail of the Beast is a lesser-known adventure and mystery work by early 20th-century writer Achmed Abdullah, reflecting his characteristic blend of exotic settings and suspenseful plotting.
- 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 Dogs of War Target entity description: The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
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A.
The Thief and the Dogs
The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
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B.
Behind the Front
"Behind the Front" is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, showcasing their early alternative and socially conscious rap style before their later pop-oriented success.
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C.
Bullet the Wonder Dog
Bullet the Wonder Dog was Roy Rogers’ famous German Shepherd sidekick, known for appearing in his Western films and television shows as a heroic and intelligent companion.
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D.
Fierce Creatures
Fierce Creatures is a 1997 British comedy film, conceived as a spiritual successor to A Fish Called Wanda, featuring John Cleese and other members of that ensemble in a farcical story about a struggling zoo.
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E.
The Trail of the Beast
The Trail of the Beast is a lesser-known adventure and mystery work by early 20th-century writer Achmed Abdullah, reflecting his characteristic blend of exotic settings and suspenseful plotting.
- 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 Dogs of War Description of subject: The Dogs of War is a 1980 political war film based on Frederick Forsyth’s novel, following mercenaries hired to overthrow a fictional African dictator.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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