Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)
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Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) is a 1997 American dark comedy film featuring Tom Hulce in a prominent role.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stranger Than Fiction | 3 |
| Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) canonical | 1 |
| Stranger than Fiction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10974882 — 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: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) Context triple: [Tom Hulce, notableWork, Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)]
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A.
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction is a 2006 fantasy-comedy-drama film in which Will Ferrell plays an IRS auditor who discovers his life is being narrated by an author whose story may determine his fate.
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B.
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a surreal 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, in which a puppeteer discovers a portal into actor John Malkovich’s mind.
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C.
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that aired from 1986 to 1993, following the comedic misadventures of a Chicago man and his naive, enthusiastic cousin from a fictional Mediterranean country.
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D.
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers is a British television drama series in which Lindsay Duncan delivered one of her most acclaimed performances.
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E.
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a 2001 cult psychological thriller and science fiction film about a troubled teenager who experiences disturbing visions involving time travel and a menacing figure in a rabbit costume.
- 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: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) Target entity description: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) is a 1997 American dark comedy film featuring Tom Hulce in a prominent role.
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A.
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction is a 2006 fantasy-comedy-drama film in which Will Ferrell plays an IRS auditor who discovers his life is being narrated by an author whose story may determine his fate.
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B.
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a surreal 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, in which a puppeteer discovers a portal into actor John Malkovich’s mind.
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C.
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that aired from 1986 to 1993, following the comedic misadventures of a Chicago man and his naive, enthusiastic cousin from a fictional Mediterranean country.
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D.
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers is a British television drama series in which Lindsay Duncan delivered one of her most acclaimed performances.
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E.
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a 2001 cult psychological thriller and science fiction film about a troubled teenager who experiences disturbing visions involving time travel and a menacing figure in a rabbit costume.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| castMember | Tom Hulce ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
comedy film
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dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasProminentActor | Tom Hulce ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionType | feature film ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1997 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| title |
Stranger Than Fiction
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linked to:
Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)
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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: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) Description of subject: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film) is a 1997 American dark comedy film featuring Tom Hulce in a prominent role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)
linked to: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)
linked to: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)
linked to: Stranger Than Fiction (1997 film)