Hotel for Dogs
E1022363
Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 family comedy film about siblings who secretly transform an abandoned hotel into a shelter for stray dogs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hotel for Dogs canonical | 4 |
| Alex in Hotel for Dogs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13125446 — 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: Hotel for Dogs Context triple: [Emma Roberts, notableWork, Hotel for Dogs]
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A.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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B.
El cumpleaños del perro
El cumpleaños del perro is a Mexican film best known for featuring acclaimed actress Ana Ofelia Murguía in a prominent role.
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C.
A Dog's Life
A Dog's Life is a 1918 silent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, following his Tramp character as he navigates hardship and companionship with a stray dog.
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D.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a satirical science fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov that critiques Soviet society through the story of a stray dog transformed into a human.
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E.
The Dog
The Dog is the witty, talking canine companion and narrator’s sidekick in Jim Henson’s fantasy television series *The Storyteller*.
- 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: Hotel for Dogs Target entity description: Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 family comedy film about siblings who secretly transform an abandoned hotel into a shelter for stray dogs.
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A.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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B.
El cumpleaños del perro
El cumpleaños del perro is a Mexican film best known for featuring acclaimed actress Ana Ofelia Murguía in a prominent role.
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C.
A Dog's Life
A Dog's Life is a 1918 silent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, following his Tramp character as he navigates hardship and companionship with a stray dog.
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D.
Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog is a satirical science fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov that critiques Soviet society through the story of a stray dog transformed into a human.
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E.
The Dog
The Dog is the witty, talking canine companion and narrator’s sidekick in Jim Henson’s fantasy television series *The Storyteller*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Lois Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hotel for Dogs (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Michael Grady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | John Debney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Thor Freudenthal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical ⓘ |
| editor | Sheldon Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
children's film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ family film ⓘ |
| hasAnimalCharacters | dogs ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
animal rescue
ⓘ
compassion ⓘ family ⓘ responsibility ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Nickelodeon Movies films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Andi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Siblings secretly transform an abandoned hotel into a shelter for stray dogs. ⓘ |
| producer |
Ewan Leslie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Shuler Donner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Donners' Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DreamWorks Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Nickelodeon Movies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistRelationship | siblings ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-01-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bob Schooley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeff Lowell NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark McCorkle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | abandoned hotel ⓘ |
| stars |
Don Cheadle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emma Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ Jake T. Austin NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Dillon NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyler Pettis NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisa Kudrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
families ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hotel for Dogs Description of subject: Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 family comedy film about siblings who secretly transform an abandoned hotel into a shelter for stray dogs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alex in Hotel for Dogs