Born on the Fourth of July
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Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 biographical war drama film directed by Oliver Stone that chronicles the life of paralyzed Vietnam War veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Born on the Fourth of July canonical | 33 |
| Born on the Fourth of July (film) | 2 |
| Born on the Fourth of July (1989 film) | 1 |
| Born on the Fourth of July (book) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2013877 — 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: Born on the Fourth of July Context triple: [Willem Dafoe, notableWork, Born on the Fourth of July]
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A.
Dia da Liberdade
Dia da Liberdade is Portugal’s national holiday on April 25th commemorating the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended the Estado Novo dictatorship and restored democracy.
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B.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
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C.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s autobiographical account of his life and struggle against apartheid, charting his journey from rural childhood to becoming South Africa’s first Black president.
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D.
Liberation
Liberation is a collaborative hip-hop album by Talib Kweli and producer Madlib, known for its socially conscious lyrics and soulful, sample-heavy production.
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E.
Liberation
"Liberation" is a roots reggae album by Jamaican musician Bunny Wailer that reflects his Rastafarian beliefs and socially conscious themes.
- 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: Born on the Fourth of July Target entity description: Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 biographical war drama film directed by Oliver Stone that chronicles the life of paralyzed Vietnam War veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic.
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A.
Dia da Liberdade
Dia da Liberdade is Portugal’s national holiday on April 25th commemorating the 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended the Estado Novo dictatorship and restored democracy.
-
B.
The Beautiful Struggle
The Beautiful Struggle is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s coming-of-age memoir about growing up in Baltimore amid violence, hip-hop culture, and his father’s Black nationalist ideals.
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C.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s autobiographical account of his life and struggle against apartheid, charting his journey from rural childhood to becoming South Africa’s first Black president.
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D.
Liberation
Liberation is a collaborative hip-hop album by Talib Kweli and producer Madlib, known for its socially conscious lyrics and soulful, sample-heavy production.
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E.
Liberation
"Liberation" is a roots reggae album by Jamaican musician Bunny Wailer that reflects his Rastafarian beliefs and socially conscious themes.
- 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: Born on the Fourth of July Description of subject: Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 biographical war drama film directed by Oliver Stone that chronicles the life of paralyzed Vietnam War veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Thomas
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linked to: Born on the Fourth of July