The Birdcage
E196171
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, that satirizes family, politics, and LGBTQ+ identity through the chaos surrounding a gay couple meeting their son’s conservative future in-laws.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Birdcage canonical | 27 |
| The Birdcage (1996 film) | 6 |
| the 1996 film The Birdcage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1755443 — 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 Birdcage Context triple: [Dianne Wiest, notableWork, The Birdcage]
-
A.
Duck Soup
Duck Soup is a classic 1933 Marx Brothers political satire film renowned for its rapid-fire wit and anarchic comedy.
-
B.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
-
C.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
-
D.
Shallow Hal
Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, in which Jack Black plays a superficial man who, after being hypnotized, can only see women's inner beauty.
-
E.
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
- 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 Birdcage Target entity description: The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, that satirizes family, politics, and LGBTQ+ identity through the chaos surrounding a gay couple meeting their son’s conservative future in-laws.
-
A.
Duck Soup
Duck Soup is a classic 1933 Marx Brothers political satire film renowned for its rapid-fire wit and anarchic comedy.
-
B.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
-
C.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
-
D.
Shallow Hal
Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, in which Jack Black plays a superficial man who, after being hypnotized, can only see women's inner beauty.
-
E.
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Birdcage Description of subject: The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, that satirizes family, politics, and LGBTQ+ identity through the chaos surrounding a gay couple meeting their son’s conservative future in-laws.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Birdcage
subject linked to:
Albert Goldman in The Birdcage
subject linked to:
Albert Goldman in The Birdcage
linked to: The Birdcage
subject linked to:
John Bowen (various)
subject linked to:
Heslov
linked to: The Birdcage
linked to: The Birdcage
linked to: The Birdcage
linked to: The Birdcage
linked to: The Birdcage