The War of the Roses
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The War of the Roses is a 1989 dark comedy film about a wealthy couple’s increasingly vicious divorce, noted for its sharp satire and starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The War of the Roses canonical | 13 |
| The War of the Roses (1989 film) | 3 |
| The War of the Roses (screenplay) | 1 |
| War of the Roses | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9162702 — 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 War of the Roses Context triple: [Kathleen Turner, notableWork, The War of the Roses]
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Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a series of 15th-century English civil wars between rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, the Houses of Lancaster and York, over control of the English throne.
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The Anarchy (English civil war)
The Anarchy was a mid-12th-century English civil war marked by a bitter succession struggle between King Stephen and Empress Matilda, resulting in widespread lawlessness and political instability across England and parts of Normandy.
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Robert’s Rebellion
Robert’s Rebellion was a major civil war in Westeros that overthrew the Targaryen dynasty and led to Robert Baratheon’s rise to the Iron Throne.
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Second Battle of St Albans
The Second Battle of St Albans was a key 1461 engagement in the Wars of the Roses in which the Lancastrian forces defeated the Yorkists and briefly regained custody of King Henry VI.
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Princes' War
The Princes' War was a mid-16th-century conflict within the Holy Roman Empire in which Protestant princes, led by figures like Elector Maurice of Saxony, challenged the authority of Emperor Charles V following the Schmalkaldic War.
- 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 War of the Roses Target entity description: The War of the Roses is a 1989 dark comedy film about a wealthy couple’s increasingly vicious divorce, noted for its sharp satire and starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito.
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A.
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a series of 15th-century English civil wars between rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, the Houses of Lancaster and York, over control of the English throne.
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B.
The Anarchy (English civil war)
The Anarchy was a mid-12th-century English civil war marked by a bitter succession struggle between King Stephen and Empress Matilda, resulting in widespread lawlessness and political instability across England and parts of Normandy.
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C.
Robert’s Rebellion
Robert’s Rebellion was a major civil war in Westeros that overthrew the Targaryen dynasty and led to Robert Baratheon’s rise to the Iron Throne.
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D.
Second Battle of St Albans
The Second Battle of St Albans was a key 1461 engagement in the Wars of the Roses in which the Lancastrian forces defeated the Yorkists and briefly regained custody of King Henry VI.
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E.
Princes' War
The Princes' War was a mid-16th-century conflict within the Holy Roman Empire in which Protestant princes, led by figures like Elector Maurice of Saxony, challenged the authority of Emperor Charles V following the Schmalkaldic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: The War of the Roses Description of subject: The War of the Roses is a 1989 dark comedy film about a wealthy couple’s increasingly vicious divorce, noted for its sharp satire and starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Warren Adler
subject linked to:
Mary