Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story
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Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story is a 2010 sports comedy film that parodies the world of professional wiffle ball and the eccentric characters surrounding it.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9801722 — 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: Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story Context triple: [Mircea Monroe, notableWork, Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story]
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A.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
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B.
The Whitaker
The Whitaker is a museum and art gallery in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, showcasing local history, contemporary exhibitions, and community events within a historic house and park setting.
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C.
Dodsworth
Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
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D.
Cousin Eddie
Cousin Eddie is the crude, eccentric, and hilariously oblivious relative who provides much of the comic chaos in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series.
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E.
The Amazing Mr. Williams
The Amazing Mr. Williams is a 1939 romantic comedy film starring Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell, known for its blend of screwball humor and crime-themed plot.
- 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: Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story Target entity description: Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story is a 2010 sports comedy film that parodies the world of professional wiffle ball and the eccentric characters surrounding it.
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A.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
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B.
The Whitaker
The Whitaker is a museum and art gallery in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, showcasing local history, contemporary exhibitions, and community events within a historic house and park setting.
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C.
Dodsworth
Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
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D.
Cousin Eddie
Cousin Eddie is the crude, eccentric, and hilariously oblivious relative who provides much of the comic chaos in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film series.
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E.
The Amazing Mr. Williams
The Amazing Mr. Williams is a 1939 romantic comedy film starring Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell, known for its blend of screwball humor and crime-themed plot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse | professional wiffle ball circuit ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
sports comedy ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Ted Whitfield ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | eccentric characters in professional wiffle ball ⓘ |
| parodies | professional wiffle ball ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| sportDepicted | wiffle ball ⓘ |
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: Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story Description of subject: Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story is a 2010 sports comedy film that parodies the world of professional wiffle ball and the eccentric characters surrounding it.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.