The Sterile Cuckoo
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The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 romantic drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for featuring one of Liza Minnelli’s earliest acclaimed screen performances.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sterile Cuckoo canonical | 10 |
| The Sterile Cuckoo (1969 film) | 2 |
| The Sterile Cuckoo (film) | 1 |
| The Sterile Cuckoo (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070480 — 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 Sterile Cuckoo Context triple: [Liza Minnelli, notableWork, The Sterile Cuckoo]
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The Egg
The Egg is a modern, student-centered dining and learning facility at the Culinary Institute of America’s Hyde Park campus that showcases culinary education in a real-world restaurant environment.
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The Egg
The Egg is an iconic, egg-shaped performing arts venue in Albany, New York, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and role as a cultural center.
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C.
Telegony
Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, that continued the story of Odysseus and his son Telemachus after the events of Homer’s Odyssey.
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D.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
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The Demands of the Egg
"The Demands of the Egg" is an episode of the nature documentary series "The Life of Birds" that explores how bird eggs develop and the diverse strategies birds use to protect and incubate them.
- 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 Sterile Cuckoo Target entity description: The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 romantic drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for featuring one of Liza Minnelli’s earliest acclaimed screen performances.
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A.
The Egg
The Egg is a modern, student-centered dining and learning facility at the Culinary Institute of America’s Hyde Park campus that showcases culinary education in a real-world restaurant environment.
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B.
The Egg
The Egg is an iconic, egg-shaped performing arts venue in Albany, New York, known for its distinctive modernist architecture and role as a cultural center.
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C.
Telegony
Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, that continued the story of Odysseus and his son Telemachus after the events of Homer’s Odyssey.
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D.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
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E.
The Demands of the Egg
"The Demands of the Egg" is an episode of the nature documentary series "The Life of Birds" that explores how bird eggs develop and the diverse strategies birds use to protect and incubate them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Sterile Cuckoo Description of subject: The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 romantic drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for featuring one of Liza Minnelli’s earliest acclaimed screen performances.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Sterile Cuckoo
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John Nichols
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linked to: The Sterile Cuckoo
linked to: The Sterile Cuckoo