Broken English
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Broken English is a 1979 British comedy film starring Michael Caine and John Clive, known for its satirical take on language and communication.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broken English canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3278763 — 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: Broken English Context triple: [John Clive, notableWork, Broken English]
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A.
Bad English
Bad English was a late-1980s hard rock supergroup best known for their hit power ballad "When I See You Smile," featuring former members of Journey and The Babys.
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B.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
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C.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
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D.
I Speak Six Languages
"I Speak Six Languages" is a comedic character song from the musical *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* that showcases the overachieving, hyper-competitive personality of contestant Marcy Park.
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E.
Speechless
"Speechless" is a romantic R&B ballad by Beyoncé featured on her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love.
- 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: Broken English Target entity description: Broken English is a 1979 British comedy film starring Michael Caine and John Clive, known for its satirical take on language and communication.
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A.
Bad English
Bad English was a late-1980s hard rock supergroup best known for their hit power ballad "When I See You Smile," featuring former members of Journey and The Babys.
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B.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
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C.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
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D.
I Speak Six Languages
"I Speak Six Languages" is a comedic character song from the musical *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* that showcases the overachieving, hyper-competitive personality of contestant Marcy Park.
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E.
Speechless
"Speechless" is a romantic R&B ballad by Beyoncé featured on her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British film
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comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
John Clive
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Michael Caine ⓘ |
| hasQuality | satirical ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
communication
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language ⓘ |
| notableFor | satirical take on language and communication ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1979 ⓘ |
| starring |
John Clive
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Michael Caine ⓘ |
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: Broken English Description of subject: Broken English is a 1979 British comedy film starring Michael Caine and John Clive, known for its satirical take on language and communication.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Clive (author)