Tootsie
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Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tootsie canonical | 50 |
| Tootsie (1982 film) | 4 |
| film Tootsie | 2 |
| Tootsie (Broadway musical) | 1 |
| Tootsie (film) | 1 |
| Tootsie (musical) | 1 |
| Tootsie universe | 1 |
| Tootsie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621879 — 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: Tootsie Context triple: [Bill Murray, notableWork, Tootsie]
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A.
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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B.
Moonstruck
Moonstruck is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Cher and Nicolas Cage, celebrated for its witty script, Italian-American family setting, and Cher’s Academy Award–winning performance.
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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 Object of My Affection
The Object of My Affection is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd that explores the complexities of love and friendship between a pregnant social worker and her gay best friend.
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E.
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.
- 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: Tootsie Target entity description: Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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A.
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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B.
Moonstruck
Moonstruck is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Cher and Nicolas Cage, celebrated for its witty script, Italian-American family setting, and Cher’s Academy Award–winning performance.
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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 Object of My Affection
The Object of My Affection is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd that explores the complexities of love and friendship between a pregnant social worker and her gay best friend.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Tootsie Description of subject: Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie
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Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie
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subject linked to:
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