The Accidental Tourist
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The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film, based on Anne Tyler’s novel, that follows a grief-stricken travel writer whose life is upended by an eccentric dog trainer.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Accidental Tourist canonical | 26 |
| The Accidental Tourist (novel) | 3 |
| The Accidental Tourist (1988 film) | 2 |
| The Accidental Tourist (film adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T992371 — 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 Accidental Tourist Context triple: [Lawrence Kasdan, notableWork, The Accidental Tourist]
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A.
An Ordinary Couple
An Ordinary Couple is a romantic song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music."
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The Pale Tourist
The Pale Tourist is a stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan in which he crafts material inspired by his travels to different countries and cultures.
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The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County is a romantic drama film, based on Robert James Waller’s novel, best known for its poignant love story between a housewife and a photographer in rural Iowa.
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My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is a late-1940s American radio sitcom starring Lucille Ball that served as a precursor to and inspiration for the television series I Love Lucy.
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E.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
- 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 Accidental Tourist Target entity description: The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film, based on Anne Tyler’s novel, that follows a grief-stricken travel writer whose life is upended by an eccentric dog trainer.
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A.
An Ordinary Couple
An Ordinary Couple is a romantic song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music."
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B.
The Pale Tourist
The Pale Tourist is a stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan in which he crafts material inspired by his travels to different countries and cultures.
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C.
The Bridges of Madison County
The Bridges of Madison County is a romantic drama film, based on Robert James Waller’s novel, best known for its poignant love story between a housewife and a photographer in rural Iowa.
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D.
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is a late-1940s American radio sitcom starring Lucille Ball that served as a precursor to and inspiration for the television series I Love Lucy.
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E.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Accidental Tourist Description of subject: The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film, based on Anne Tyler’s novel, that follows a grief-stricken travel writer whose life is upended by an eccentric dog trainer.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Kasdan
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Kasdan
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The film follows grief-stricken travel writer Macon Leary, whose regimented life is disrupted when he meets eccentric dog trainer Muriel Pritchett.
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The film follows grief-stricken travel writer Macon Leary, whose regimented life is disrupted when he meets eccentric dog trainer Muriel Pritchett.
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Hurt