Roxanne
E62977
Roxanne is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin, loosely based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roxanne canonical | 40 |
| Roxanne (1987 film) | 2 |
| Roxanne (as a specific spelling) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500365 — 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: Roxanne Context triple: [Steve Martin, notableWork, Roxanne]
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A.
For the Roses
For the Roses is a 1972 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell that bridges her early folk style with more complex, jazz-influenced compositions and introspective lyrics.
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B.
The Rose
The Rose is a 1979 musical drama film starring Bette Midler as a self-destructive rock singer, widely acclaimed for her powerful performance and the hit title song.
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C.
The Valkyries
"The Valkyries" is a mystical, semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Coelho that follows a spiritual journey through the Mojave Desert exploring themes of faith, love, and self-discovery.
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D.
Xanadu
Xanadu is the opulent, mythical pleasure-dome city evoked in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan."
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E.
Shine
Shine is a critically acclaimed 1996 biographical drama film in which Geoffrey Rush delivers an Oscar-winning performance as pianist David Helfgott.
- 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: Roxanne Target entity description: Roxanne is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin, loosely based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac.
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A.
For the Roses
For the Roses is a 1972 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell that bridges her early folk style with more complex, jazz-influenced compositions and introspective lyrics.
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B.
The Rose
The Rose is a 1979 musical drama film starring Bette Midler as a self-destructive rock singer, widely acclaimed for her powerful performance and the hit title song.
-
C.
The Valkyries
"The Valkyries" is a mystical, semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Coelho that follows a spiritual journey through the Mojave Desert exploring themes of faith, love, and self-discovery.
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D.
Xanadu
Xanadu is the opulent, mythical pleasure-dome city evoked in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan."
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E.
Shine
Shine is a critically acclaimed 1996 biographical drama film in which Geoffrey Rush delivers an Oscar-winning performance as pianist David Helfgott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Roxanne Description of subject: Roxanne is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin, loosely based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.