Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American romantic comedy film about a small-town man who inherits a fortune and clashes with big-city corruption, directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town canonical | 26 |
| "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" | 2 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (TV series) | 2 |
| Longfellow Deeds (Mr. Deeds, 2002) | 1 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (film universe) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T837684 — 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: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Context triple: [Frank Capra, notableWork, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town]
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A.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
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B.
Tootsie
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
- 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: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Target entity description: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American romantic comedy film about a small-town man who inherits a fortune and clashes with big-city corruption, directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.
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A.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
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B.
Tootsie
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Description of subject: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American romantic comedy film about a small-town man who inherits a fortune and clashes with big-city corruption, directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Francesco
subject linked to:
Riskin
linked to: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
linked to: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
linked to: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
subject linked to:
Mandrake Falls (fictional town)
subject linked to:
Mandrake Falls (fictional town)
subject linked to:
Mandrake Falls (fictional town)
linked to: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
subject linked to:
Mandrake Falls (fictional town)
linked to: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
linked to: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
subject linked to:
interview with Frank Capra