Stir Crazy
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Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stir Crazy canonical | 32 |
| Stir Crazy (1980 film) | 2 |
| 1980 American comedy film Stir Crazy | 1 |
| Stir Crazy universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T389943 — 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: Stir Crazy Context triple: [Richard Pryor, notableWork, Stir Crazy]
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A.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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B.
Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude is a 1971 dark romantic comedy film that became a cult classic for its offbeat love story between a morbid young man and a free-spirited elderly woman, emblematic of countercultural cinema of its era.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
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E.
Funny Face
Funny Face is a 1957 musical romantic comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, celebrated for its fashion-forward Paris setting, iconic dance numbers, and classic songs.
- 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: Stir Crazy Target entity description: Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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A.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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B.
Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude is a 1971 dark romantic comedy film that became a cult classic for its offbeat love story between a morbid young man and a free-spirited elderly woman, emblematic of countercultural cinema of its era.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
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E.
Funny Face
Funny Face is a 1957 musical romantic comedy film starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, celebrated for its fashion-forward Paris setting, iconic dance numbers, and classic songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Stir Crazy Description of subject: Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Pryor
linked to: Stir Crazy
linked to: Stir Crazy
subject linked to:
album "Tell 'Em Why U Madd"
linked to: Stir Crazy
subject linked to:
JoBeth
linked to: Stir Crazy