The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor is a 1963 comedy film starring Jerry Lewis as a nerdy professor who transforms into a suave but obnoxious alter ego after drinking a special potion.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Nutty Professor canonical | 6 |
| The Nutty Professor (1963 film) | 5 |
| The Nutty Professor film series | 2 |
| Nutty Professor (stage musical) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2645800 — 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 Nutty Professor Context triple: [Jerry Lewis, notableWork, The Nutty Professor]
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A.
The Nutty Professor (1996 film)
The Nutty Professor (1996 film) is a comedy film in which Eddie Murphy plays an obese, kind-hearted professor who invents a miraculous weight-loss formula that transforms him into a brash alter ego.
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B.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is a 2000 comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, with Janet Jackson as the female lead, serving as a sequel to the hit film The Nutty Professor.
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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.
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D.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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E.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
- 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 Nutty Professor Target entity description: The Nutty Professor is a 1963 comedy film starring Jerry Lewis as a nerdy professor who transforms into a suave but obnoxious alter ego after drinking a special potion.
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A.
The Nutty Professor (1996 film)
The Nutty Professor (1996 film) is a comedy film in which Eddie Murphy plays an obese, kind-hearted professor who invents a miraculous weight-loss formula that transforms him into a brash alter ego.
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B.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is a 2000 comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, with Janet Jackson as the female lead, serving as a sequel to the hit film The Nutty Professor.
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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.
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D.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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E.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Nutty Professor Description of subject: The Nutty Professor is a 1963 comedy film starring Jerry Lewis as a nerdy professor who transforms into a suave but obnoxious alter ego after drinking a special potion.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The King of Comedy
linked to: The Nutty Professor
linked to: The Nutty Professor