Akeelah and the Bee
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Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film about a young girl from South Los Angeles who competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, and Angela Bassett.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Akeelah and the Bee canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3233703 — 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: Akeelah and the Bee Context triple: [Laurence Fishburne, notableWork, Akeelah and the Bee]
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A.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a Tony Award–winning comedic musical that follows a quirky group of adolescents competing in a middle-school spelling bee.
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B.
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters is a 2007 American drama film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Denzel Washington, that chronicles the true story of a pioneering African American college debate team in the 1930s.
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C.
October Sky
"October Sky" is a 1999 coming-of-age drama film about a young man's passion for rocketry in a 1950s coal-mining town, based on Homer Hickam's memoir "Rocket Boys."
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D.
The Blind Side
The Blind Side is a 2009 biographical sports drama film about NFL player Michael Oher’s journey from homelessness to football stardom with the support of a wealthy adoptive family.
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E.
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a 1999 dark comedy-thriller film about high school students who plot against their vindictive teacher after being falsely accused of cheating.
- 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: Akeelah and the Bee Target entity description: Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film about a young girl from South Los Angeles who competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, and Angela Bassett.
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A.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a Tony Award–winning comedic musical that follows a quirky group of adolescents competing in a middle-school spelling bee.
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B.
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters is a 2007 American drama film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Denzel Washington, that chronicles the true story of a pioneering African American college debate team in the 1930s.
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C.
October Sky
"October Sky" is a 1999 coming-of-age drama film about a young man's passion for rocketry in a 1950s coal-mining town, based on Homer Hickam's memoir "Rocket Boys."
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D.
The Blind Side
The Blind Side is a 2009 biographical sports drama film about NFL player Michael Oher’s journey from homelessness to football stardom with the support of a wealthy adoptive family.
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E.
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a 1999 dark comedy-thriller film about high school students who plot against their vindictive teacher after being falsely accused of cheating.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Akeelah and the Bee Description of subject: Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film about a young girl from South Los Angeles who competes in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, and Angela Bassett.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.