A Tiger’s Tale
E1020969
A Tiger’s Tale is a 1987 coming-of-age dramedy film produced by Peter Douglas that follows a teenage boy’s unconventional romance with his girlfriend’s mother in Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Tiger’s Tale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13071782 — 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: A Tiger’s Tale Context triple: [Peter Douglas, notableWork, A Tiger’s Tale]
-
A.
The Tiger and the Snow
The Tiger and the Snow is a 2005 Italian romantic comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, blending humor and tragedy against the backdrop of the Iraq War.
-
B.
The Tiger in the House
The Tiger in the House is a 1920 nonfiction book by Carl Van Vechten that explores the history, lore, and cultural significance of domestic cats.
-
C.
The Tiger in the Well
The Tiger in the Well is a historical mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detective Sally Lockhart as she confronts a sinister conspiracy in Victorian London.
-
D.
The Hungry Tiger
The Hungry Tiger is a memorable character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, depicted as a large, talking tiger who is constantly tormented by an insatiable appetite yet too compassionate to satisfy it.
-
E.
The Tiger’s Apprentice
The Tiger’s Apprentice is a fantasy adventure film adaptation of Laurence Yep’s novel, featuring Henry Golding in a prominent role.
- 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: A Tiger’s Tale Target entity description: A Tiger’s Tale is a 1987 coming-of-age dramedy film produced by Peter Douglas that follows a teenage boy’s unconventional romance with his girlfriend’s mother in Texas.
-
A.
The Tiger and the Snow
The Tiger and the Snow is a 2005 Italian romantic comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, blending humor and tragedy against the backdrop of the Iraq War.
-
B.
The Tiger in the House
The Tiger in the House is a 1920 nonfiction book by Carl Van Vechten that explores the history, lore, and cultural significance of domestic cats.
-
C.
The Tiger in the Well
The Tiger in the Well is a historical mystery novel by Philip Pullman featuring young detective Sally Lockhart as she confronts a sinister conspiracy in Victorian London.
-
D.
The Hungry Tiger
The Hungry Tiger is a memorable character from L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, depicted as a large, talking tiger who is constantly tormented by an insatiable appetite yet too compassionate to satisfy it.
-
E.
The Tiger’s Apprentice
The Tiger’s Apprentice is a fantasy adventure film adaptation of Laurence Yep’s novel, featuring Henry Golding in a prominent role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
ⓘ
coming-of-age film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel by William Hjortsberg ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Frederick Elmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Peter Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Island Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Glenn Farr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
ⓘ
coming-of-age film ⓘ romantic comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ social taboos ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | teenage boy ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical motion picture ⓘ |
| musicBy | Lee Holdridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | unconventional romance ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A teenage boy becomes romantically involved with his girlfriend’s mother in Texas. ⓘ |
| producer | Peter Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Island Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s film ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | approx. 90–100 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William Hjortsberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Ann-Margret
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
C. Thomas Howell NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Durning NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelly Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: A Tiger’s Tale Description of subject: A Tiger’s Tale is a 1987 coming-of-age dramedy film produced by Peter Douglas that follows a teenage boy’s unconventional romance with his girlfriend’s mother in Texas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.