About a Boy
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About a Boy is a 2002 British-American comedy-drama film, based on Nick Hornby’s novel, about an immature bachelor whose life changes when he befriends a lonely young boy.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| About a Boy canonical | 37 |
| About a Boy (TV series) | 9 |
| About a Boy (2002 film) | 6 |
| About a Boy (film) | 4 |
| About a Boy (novel) | 4 |
| About a Boy (1998 novel) | 2 |
| About a Boy (soundtrack) | 1 |
| About a Boy film soundtrack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1368582 — 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: About a Boy Context triple: [Rachel Weisz, notableWork, About a Boy]
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Alfie
Alfie is a diminutive given name, commonly used in English-speaking countries, derived from the name Alfred.
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Alfie
"Alfie" is a classic 1966 pop song, with music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David, best known as the reflective theme from the film of the same name.
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Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones’s Diary is a popular romantic comedy film (based on Helen Fielding’s novel) that follows the humorous, often chaotic love life and self-discovery of a single woman in London.
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Muriel's Wedding
Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film about a socially awkward young woman who escapes her small-town life through ABBA-fueled fantasies and an impulsive marriage, becoming a cult classic for its blend of humor and pathos.
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Better Man
"Better Man" is one of Pearl Jam's most popular and enduring rock ballads, known for its emotional lyrics about a troubled relationship and frequent inclusion in the band's live performances.
- 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: About a Boy Target entity description: About a Boy is a 2002 British-American comedy-drama film, based on Nick Hornby’s novel, about an immature bachelor whose life changes when he befriends a lonely young boy.
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A.
Alfie
Alfie is a diminutive given name, commonly used in English-speaking countries, derived from the name Alfred.
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B.
Alfie
"Alfie" is a classic 1966 pop song, with music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David, best known as the reflective theme from the film of the same name.
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C.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones’s Diary is a popular romantic comedy film (based on Helen Fielding’s novel) that follows the humorous, often chaotic love life and self-discovery of a single woman in London.
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D.
Muriel's Wedding
Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film about a socially awkward young woman who escapes her small-town life through ABBA-fueled fantasies and an impulsive marriage, becoming a cult classic for its blend of humor and pathos.
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E.
Better Man
"Better Man" is one of Pearl Jam's most popular and enduring rock ballads, known for its emotional lyrics about a troubled relationship and frequent inclusion in the band's live performances.
- 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: About a Boy Description of subject: About a Boy is a 2002 British-American comedy-drama film, based on Nick Hornby’s novel, about an immature bachelor whose life changes when he befriends a lonely young boy.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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