McFarland, USA
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McFarland, USA is a 2015 sports drama film based on the true story of a high school cross-country team in a Latino community that overcomes social and economic challenges to achieve success.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McFarland, USA canonical | 34 |
| film "McFarland, USA" | 2 |
| "McFarland, USA" (2015 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1193346 — 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: McFarland, USA Context triple: [Mark Ciardi, notableWork, McFarland, USA]
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A.
Friday Night Lights (film)
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film that chronicles the pressures and passions surrounding a high school football team in small-town Texas.
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B.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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C.
Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves is an epic 1990 Western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner, following a Union Army lieutenant who befriends a Sioux tribe on the American frontier.
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D.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an iconic World War II photograph by Joe Rosenthal depicting U.S. Marines hoisting the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, symbolizing American victory and sacrifice in the Pacific theater.
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E.
Glory
"Glory" is an Academy Award–winning civil rights anthem by John Legend and Common, written for the 2014 film *Selma* and celebrated for its powerful commentary on racial justice.
- 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: McFarland, USA Target entity description: McFarland, USA is a 2015 sports drama film based on the true story of a high school cross-country team in a Latino community that overcomes social and economic challenges to achieve success.
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A.
Friday Night Lights (film)
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film that chronicles the pressures and passions surrounding a high school football team in small-town Texas.
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B.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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C.
Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves is an epic 1990 Western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner, following a Union Army lieutenant who befriends a Sioux tribe on the American frontier.
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D.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an iconic World War II photograph by Joe Rosenthal depicting U.S. Marines hoisting the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, symbolizing American victory and sacrifice in the Pacific theater.
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E.
Glory
"Glory" is an Academy Award–winning civil rights anthem by John Legend and Common, written for the 2014 film *Selma* and celebrated for its powerful commentary on racial justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: McFarland, USA Description of subject: McFarland, USA is a 2015 sports drama film based on the true story of a high school cross-country team in a Latino community that overcomes social and economic challenges to achieve success.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
coach Jim White
linked to: McFarland, USA
subject linked to:
coach Jim White
linked to: McFarland, USA
subject linked to:
Cheryl White