Mermaids
E178623
Mermaids is a 1990 coming-of-age comedy-drama film starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Bob Hoskins, centered on an eccentric single mother and her daughters in 1960s New England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mermaids canonical | 6 |
| Mermaids (novel) | 1 |
| Mermaids soundtrack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577955 — 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: Mermaids Context triple: [Bob Hoskins, notableWork, Mermaids]
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A.
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid is a beloved 1989 animated musical fantasy film that revitalized Disney animation with its fairy-tale romance, memorable songs, and vibrant undersea world.
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B.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 romantic fantasy film blending myth and legend, best known for starring Ava Gardner and James Mason in a haunting tale of doomed love.
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C.
Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water is a 2006 fantasy thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a mysterious water nymph discovered in a Philadelphia apartment complex’s pool.
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D.
Sirens
"Sirens" is a reflective, melodic rock ballad by Pearl Jam known for its emotional lyrics and expansive, atmospheric sound.
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E.
Beast
Beast is a thriller novel by Peter Benchley that centers on a deadly giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
- 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: Mermaids Target entity description: Mermaids is a 1990 coming-of-age comedy-drama film starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Bob Hoskins, centered on an eccentric single mother and her daughters in 1960s New England.
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A.
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid is a beloved 1989 animated musical fantasy film that revitalized Disney animation with its fairy-tale romance, memorable songs, and vibrant undersea world.
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B.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 romantic fantasy film blending myth and legend, best known for starring Ava Gardner and James Mason in a haunting tale of doomed love.
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C.
Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water is a 2006 fantasy thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a mysterious water nymph discovered in a Philadelphia apartment complex’s pool.
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D.
Sirens
"Sirens" is a reflective, melodic rock ballad by Pearl Jam known for its emotional lyrics and expansive, atmospheric sound.
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E.
Beast
Beast is a thriller novel by Peter Benchley that centers on a deadly giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Mermaids Description of subject: Mermaids is a 1990 coming-of-age comedy-drama film starring Cher, Winona Ryder, and Bob Hoskins, centered on an eccentric single mother and her daughters in 1960s New England.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.