Wag the Dog
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Wag the Dog is a 1997 political satire film about a fabricated war used to distract the public from a presidential scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wag the Dog canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3498311 — 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: Wag the Dog Context triple: [Barry Levinson, notableWork, Wag the Dog]
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A.
Bulworth
Bulworth is a 1998 satirical political comedy film, written, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty as a disillusioned U.S. senator who begins speaking bluntly on the campaign trail.
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B.
The American President
The American President is a 1995 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner that follows a widowed U.S. president who falls in love with a lobbyist while navigating the political pressures of the White House.
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C.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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D.
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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E.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 dark comedy film about a hitman who returns to his hometown for a high school reunion while grappling with his violent profession and unresolved past.
- 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: Wag the Dog Target entity description: Wag the Dog is a 1997 political satire film about a fabricated war used to distract the public from a presidential scandal.
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A.
Bulworth
Bulworth is a 1998 satirical political comedy film, written, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty as a disillusioned U.S. senator who begins speaking bluntly on the campaign trail.
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B.
The American President
The American President is a 1995 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner that follows a widowed U.S. president who falls in love with a lobbyist while navigating the political pressures of the White House.
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C.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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D.
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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E.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 dark comedy film about a hitman who returns to his hometown for a high school reunion while grappling with his violent profession and unresolved past.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Wag the Dog Description of subject: Wag the Dog is a 1997 political satire film about a fabricated war used to distract the public from a presidential scandal.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.