Ordinary People
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Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores family trauma and grief following a tragic accident.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ordinary People canonical | 20 |
| Ordinary People (novel) | 2 |
| Ordinary People (1976 novel) | 1 |
| Ordinary People (1980 film) | 1 |
| Ordinary People universe | 1 |
| film Ordinary People (1980) | 1 |
| novel Ordinary People | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1653003 — 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: Ordinary People Context triple: [Timothy Hutton, notableWork, Ordinary People]
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A.
Ordinary People
"Ordinary People" is a soulful R&B ballad by John Legend that became one of his signature songs, showcasing his emotive vocals and piano-driven songwriting.
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B.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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C.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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D.
The Day I Tried to Live
"The Day I Tried to Live" is a 1994 grunge/alternative rock song by Soundgarden, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and dynamic, heavy sound.
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E.
An Ordinary Couple
An Ordinary Couple is a romantic song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music."
- 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: Ordinary People Target entity description: Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores family trauma and grief following a tragic accident.
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A.
Ordinary People
"Ordinary People" is a soulful R&B ballad by John Legend that became one of his signature songs, showcasing his emotive vocals and piano-driven songwriting.
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B.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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C.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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D.
The Day I Tried to Live
"The Day I Tried to Live" is a 1994 grunge/alternative rock song by Soundgarden, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and dynamic, heavy sound.
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E.
An Ordinary Couple
An Ordinary Couple is a romantic song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music."
- 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: Ordinary People Description of subject: Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores family trauma and grief following a tragic accident.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.