Being Flynn
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Being Flynn is a 2012 drama film, based on Nick Flynn’s memoir, that explores the fraught relationship between an aspiring writer and his estranged, homeless father.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Being Flynn canonical | 10 |
| Being Flynn (2012 American drama film) | 1 |
| Being Flynn (2012 film) | 1 |
| Being Flynn (soundtrack) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T656353 — 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: Being Flynn Context triple: [Olivia Thirlby, notableWork, Being Flynn]
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A.
Becoming
"Becoming" is a bestselling memoir by former First Lady Michelle Obama that chronicles her life from childhood through her years in the White House and beyond.
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B.
Daughter of the Kremlin
Daughter of the Kremlin is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her life inside the Soviet leadership’s inner circle and her eventual break with the regime.
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C.
Die Luft der Freiheit weht
"Die Luft der Freiheit weht" is the German-language motto of Stanford University, traditionally translated as "The wind of freedom blows" and expressing the institution’s spirit of intellectual and personal liberty.
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D.
Blink
Blink is an open-source web browser engine developed primarily by Google and used in several major browsers to render web pages.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- 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: Being Flynn Target entity description: Being Flynn is a 2012 drama film, based on Nick Flynn’s memoir, that explores the fraught relationship between an aspiring writer and his estranged, homeless father.
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A.
Becoming
"Becoming" is a bestselling memoir by former First Lady Michelle Obama that chronicles her life from childhood through her years in the White House and beyond.
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B.
Daughter of the Kremlin
Daughter of the Kremlin is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her life inside the Soviet leadership’s inner circle and her eventual break with the regime.
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C.
Die Luft der Freiheit weht
"Die Luft der Freiheit weht" is the German-language motto of Stanford University, traditionally translated as "The wind of freedom blows" and expressing the institution’s spirit of intellectual and personal liberty.
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D.
Blink
Blink is an open-source web browser engine developed primarily by Google and used in several major browsers to render web pages.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- 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: Being Flynn Description of subject: Being Flynn is a 2012 drama film, based on Nick Flynn’s memoir, that explores the fraught relationship between an aspiring writer and his estranged, homeless father.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Being Flynn
linked to: Being Flynn
linked to: Being Flynn