Sling Blade
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Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sling Blade canonical | 23 |
| Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | 2 |
| Sling Blade (1996 film) | 1 |
| short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017102 — 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: Sling Blade Context triple: [Dwight Yoakam, filmAppearance, Sling Blade]
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A.
King Baby
King Baby is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, known for its observational humor about everyday life, food, and parenting.
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B.
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 cult vigilante action film about two Irish-American brothers who embark on a violent mission to rid Boston of organized crime.
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C.
Palookaville
Palookaville is a 2004 studio album by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, blending big beat, electronic, and alternative influences.
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D.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is a 1993 American drama film about a young man caring for his intellectually disabled brother and obese mother in a small Iowa town, noted for Leonardo DiCaprio's acclaimed early performance.
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E.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
- 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: Sling Blade Target entity description: Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
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A.
King Baby
King Baby is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, known for its observational humor about everyday life, food, and parenting.
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B.
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 cult vigilante action film about two Irish-American brothers who embark on a violent mission to rid Boston of organized crime.
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C.
Palookaville
Palookaville is a 2004 studio album by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, blending big beat, electronic, and alternative influences.
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D.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is a 1993 American drama film about a young man caring for his intellectually disabled brother and obese mother in a small Iowa town, noted for Leonardo DiCaprio's acclaimed early performance.
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E.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sling Blade Description of subject: Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sling Blade
linked to: Sling Blade
subject linked to:
William Robert Thornton
subject linked to:
William Robert Thornton
subject linked to:
William Robert Thornton
linked to: Sling Blade
linked to: Sling Blade