Boys Don't Cry
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Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 biographical drama film about the life and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena, acclaimed for its powerful performances and exploration of gender identity and hate crime.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boys Don't Cry canonical | 9 |
| Boys Don’t Cry | 2 |
| film "Boys Don’t Cry" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4359115 — 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: Boys Don't Cry Context triple: [Killer Films, notableWork, Boys Don't Cry]
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A.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 psychological drama film about a young woman's experiences in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s, noted for Angelina Jolie's Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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B.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 period drama film directed by Todd Haynes that explores race, sexuality, and social norms in 1950s suburban America.
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C.
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
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D.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1984 British drama film about homosexuality and political radicalism at an elite public school in 1930s England, which helped launch Rupert Everett’s career.
- 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: Boys Don't Cry Target entity description: Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 biographical drama film about the life and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena, acclaimed for its powerful performances and exploration of gender identity and hate crime.
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A.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 psychological drama film about a young woman's experiences in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s, noted for Angelina Jolie's Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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B.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 period drama film directed by Todd Haynes that explores race, sexuality, and social norms in 1950s suburban America.
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C.
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
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D.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1984 British drama film about homosexuality and political radicalism at an elite public school in 1930s England, which helped launch Rupert Everett’s career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Boys Don't Cry Description of subject: Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 biographical drama film about the life and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena, acclaimed for its powerful performances and exploration of gender identity and hate crime.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Boys Don't Cry
linked to: Boys Don't Cry