Risky Business
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Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Risky Business canonical | 26 |
| Risky Business (film) | 1 |
| Risky Business (soundtrack) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553154 — 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: Risky Business Context triple: [Steve Tisch, notableWork, Risky Business]
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A.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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B.
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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C.
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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D.
Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, that follows the intertwined lives and relationships of four African-American women.
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E.
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 action-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as a wisecracking Detroit detective who investigates a murder in the upscale city of Beverly Hills.
- 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: Risky Business Target entity description: Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
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A.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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B.
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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C.
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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D.
Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, that follows the intertwined lives and relationships of four African-American women.
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E.
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 action-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as a wisecracking Detroit detective who investigates a murder in the upscale city of Beverly Hills.
- 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: Risky Business Description of subject: Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Steven
linked to: Risky Business
subject linked to:
De Mornay
subject linked to:
“Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger
subject linked to:
Thomas