Volunteers
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"Volunteers" is a 1985 American comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, set in the early 1960s and centered on a privileged slacker who joins the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Volunteers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2900690 — 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: Volunteers Context triple: [Rita Wilson, notableWork, Volunteers]
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A.
Volunteers
The Volunteers are the athletic teams representing the University of Tennessee in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their passionate fan base and storied football and basketball programs.
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B.
Ross Volunteers
The Ross Volunteers are an elite, historic honor guard and ceremonial unit composed of Texas A&M cadets that serves as the official honor guard for the Governor of Texas.
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C.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal service program that engages volunteers in community service projects across the country, often in exchange for education awards and living stipends.
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D.
Singapore Volunteer Corps
The Singapore Volunteer Corps was a colonial-era volunteer military unit in Singapore that formed the core of local defense forces before being reorganized into the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
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E.
The Volunteers
The Volunteers was the popular name for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, a locally raised militia that provided auxiliary military defense for Hong Kong, particularly during the early 20th century and World War II.
- 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: Volunteers Target entity description: "Volunteers" is a 1985 American comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, set in the early 1960s and centered on a privileged slacker who joins the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia.
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A.
Volunteers
The Volunteers are the athletic teams representing the University of Tennessee in NCAA Division I sports, particularly known for their passionate fan base and storied football and basketball programs.
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B.
Ross Volunteers
The Ross Volunteers are an elite, historic honor guard and ceremonial unit composed of Texas A&M cadets that serves as the official honor guard for the Governor of Texas.
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C.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal service program that engages volunteers in community service projects across the country, often in exchange for education awards and living stipends.
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D.
Singapore Volunteer Corps
The Singapore Volunteer Corps was a colonial-era volunteer military unit in Singapore that formed the core of local defense forces before being reorganized into the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.
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E.
The Volunteers
The Volunteers was the popular name for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, a locally raised militia that provided auxiliary military defense for Hong Kong, particularly during the early 20th century and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Volunteers Description of subject: "Volunteers" is a 1985 American comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, set in the early 1960s and centered on a privileged slacker who joins the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.