Hancock (film)
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Hancock is a 2008 superhero action-comedy film starring Will Smith as a troubled, alcoholic superhero seeking redemption in modern-day Los Angeles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hancock | 11 |
| Hancock (film) canonical | 3 |
| Hancock (2008 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3262653 — 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)
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Target entity: Hancock (film) Context triple: [Peter Berg, notableWork, Hancock (film)]
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Hancock
Hancock is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Hancock, a key figure of the American Revolution and first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Hancock
Hancock is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
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The Ides of March
The Ides of March is a 2011 political drama film directed by and starring George Clooney, focusing on the moral compromises and corruption within an American presidential campaign.
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Hoosiers
Hoosiers is a 1986 sports drama film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team’s underdog run to the state championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest sports movies ever made.
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The Patriot
The Patriot is the costumed mascot representing George Mason University's athletic teams and school spirit.
- 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: Hancock (film) Target entity description: Hancock is a 2008 superhero action-comedy film starring Will Smith as a troubled, alcoholic superhero seeking redemption in modern-day Los Angeles.
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A.
Hancock
Hancock is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Hancock, a key figure of the American Revolution and first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Hancock
Hancock is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
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C.
The Ides of March
The Ides of March is a 2011 political drama film directed by and starring George Clooney, focusing on the moral compromises and corruption within an American presidential campaign.
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D.
Hoosiers
Hoosiers is a 1986 sports drama film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team’s underdog run to the state championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest sports movies ever made.
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E.
The Patriot
The Patriot is the costumed mascot representing George Mason University's athletic teams and school spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hancock (film) Description of subject: Hancock is a 2008 superhero action-comedy film starring Will Smith as a troubled, alcoholic superhero seeking redemption in modern-day Los Angeles.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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