Weeds
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Weeds is a 1987 drama film starring Matthew Modine that explores the lives of prison inmates who stage a theatrical production as a path to redemption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Weeds canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2152098 — 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: Weeds Context triple: [Matthew Modine, notableWork, Weeds]
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A.
Weeds
Weeds is a dark comedy-drama television series that follows a widowed suburban mother who turns to selling marijuana to support her family.
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B.
Rushes
"Rushes" is a notable work by the artist known as The Fireman, the experimental music project of Paul McCartney and producer Youth.
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C.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
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D.
Rockpile
Rockpile is a renowned American Viticultural Area in Sonoma County, California, known for its high-elevation vineyards and intensely flavored Zinfandel wines.
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E.
Shadows on the Grass
"Shadows on the Grass" is a memoir by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) that revisits her years in colonial Kenya through reflective, nostalgic essays that complement her earlier work "Out of Africa."
- 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: Weeds Target entity description: Weeds is a 1987 drama film starring Matthew Modine that explores the lives of prison inmates who stage a theatrical production as a path to redemption.
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A.
Weeds
Weeds is a dark comedy-drama television series that follows a widowed suburban mother who turns to selling marijuana to support her family.
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B.
Rushes
"Rushes" is a notable work by the artist known as The Fireman, the experimental music project of Paul McCartney and producer Youth.
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C.
Harvest
Harvest is a 1972 folk-rock album by Neil Young, widely regarded as one of his signature works and a classic of the singer-songwriter era.
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D.
Rockpile
Rockpile is a renowned American Viticultural Area in Sonoma County, California, known for its high-elevation vineyards and intensely flavored Zinfandel wines.
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E.
Shadows on the Grass
"Shadows on the Grass" is a memoir by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) that revisits her years in colonial Kenya through reflective, nostalgic essays that complement her earlier work "Out of Africa."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | the life and writings of convict-turned-playwright Rick Cluchey ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Miroslav Ondříček ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | John D. Hancock ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Tri-Star Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Evan A. Lottman ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ prison film ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
prison inmates
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| musicBy | Barry De Vorzon ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of prison inmates stage a theatrical production as a path to personal transformation and redemption. ⓘ |
| producer | John D. Hancock ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hancock Productions ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1987-08-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Dorothy Tristan
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John D. Hancock ⓘ |
| starring |
Anne Ramsey
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Debra Winger ⓘ Joe Mantegna ⓘ John Toles-Bey ⓘ Lane Smith ⓘ Matthew Modine ⓘ Nick Nolte ⓘ Rita Taggart ⓘ William Forsythe ⓘ |
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: Weeds Description of subject: Weeds is a 1987 drama film starring Matthew Modine that explores the lives of prison inmates who stage a theatrical production as a path to redemption.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.