The Commitments
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The Commitments is a 1991 Irish musical comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about a working-class Dublin soul band and their chaotic rise and fall.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Commitments canonical | 21 |
| The Commitments (film) | 4 |
| The Commitments (novel) | 1 |
| The Commitments (stage production) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4496172 — 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: The Commitments Context triple: [Colm Meaney, notableWork, The Commitments]
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A.
Jo's Boys
"Jo's Boys" is Louisa May Alcott’s sequel to "Little Men," continuing the story of Jo March and the grown-up students of Plumfield as they navigate adulthood and moral challenges.
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B.
Black 47
Black 47 is a 2018 Irish historical revenge thriller film set during the Great Famine, following a deserter from the British Army who returns home to find his family destroyed by starvation and injustice.
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C.
The Cryan' Shames
The Cryan' Shames were a 1960s American rock band from Illinois known for their melodic, harmony-rich pop and regional hits like "Sugar and Spice."
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D.
Free Derry Corner
Free Derry Corner is an iconic civil rights monument in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, best known for its gable wall bearing the slogan "You are now entering Free Derry."
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E.
Republic of Doyle
Republic of Doyle is a Canadian comedy-drama television series set in St. John’s, Newfoundland, following a father-and-son private investigator team as they solve cases and navigate family dynamics.
- 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: The Commitments Target entity description: The Commitments is a 1991 Irish musical comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about a working-class Dublin soul band and their chaotic rise and fall.
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A.
Jo's Boys
"Jo's Boys" is Louisa May Alcott’s sequel to "Little Men," continuing the story of Jo March and the grown-up students of Plumfield as they navigate adulthood and moral challenges.
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B.
Black 47
Black 47 is a 2018 Irish historical revenge thriller film set during the Great Famine, following a deserter from the British Army who returns home to find his family destroyed by starvation and injustice.
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C.
The Cryan' Shames
The Cryan' Shames were a 1960s American rock band from Illinois known for their melodic, harmony-rich pop and regional hits like "Sugar and Spice."
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D.
Free Derry Corner
Free Derry Corner is an iconic civil rights monument in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, best known for its gable wall bearing the slogan "You are now entering Free Derry."
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E.
Republic of Doyle
Republic of Doyle is a Canadian comedy-drama television series set in St. John’s, Newfoundland, following a father-and-son private investigator team as they solve cases and navigate family dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: The Commitments Description of subject: The Commitments is a 1991 Irish musical comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, about a working-class Dublin soul band and their chaotic rise and fall.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Commitments
subject linked to:
Meaney
linked to: The Commitments
linked to: The Commitments
linked to: The Commitments
linked to: The Commitments