Mafia!
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Mafia! is a 1998 American parody film that spoofs classic mob movies like The Godfather and Casino with broad, slapstick humor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mafia! canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13541493 — 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: Mafia! Context triple: [Jim Abrahams, directorOf, Mafia!]
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A.
Mafia
The Mafia is a powerful, hierarchical criminal organization involved in activities such as extortion, racketeering, and illegal trafficking, often depicted in popular culture as an underworld syndicate bound by strict codes of loyalty and secrecy.
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B.
McMafia
McMafia is a British crime drama television series that explores the global operations of organized crime through the story of a London-raised son of Russian exiles drawn into the underworld.
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C.
La Mafia
La Mafia is a Grammy-winning American band from Houston, Texas, widely recognized for modernizing and popularizing Tejano music with a polished, pop-influenced sound.
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D.
Fighter Mafia
Fighter Mafia was an informal group of U.S. Air Force officers and analysts in the 1960s–70s who championed energy‑maneuverability theory and lightweight, maneuverable fighter designs that heavily influenced aircraft like the F-16.
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E.
Mafia series
The Mafia series is a collection of story-driven action-adventure video games that follow organized crime families across different eras, known for their cinematic narratives and richly detailed open-world settings.
- 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: Mafia! Target entity description: Mafia! is a 1998 American parody film that spoofs classic mob movies like The Godfather and Casino with broad, slapstick humor.
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A.
Mafia
The Mafia is a powerful, hierarchical criminal organization involved in activities such as extortion, racketeering, and illegal trafficking, often depicted in popular culture as an underworld syndicate bound by strict codes of loyalty and secrecy.
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B.
McMafia
McMafia is a British crime drama television series that explores the global operations of organized crime through the story of a London-raised son of Russian exiles drawn into the underworld.
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C.
La Mafia
La Mafia is a Grammy-winning American band from Houston, Texas, widely recognized for modernizing and popularizing Tejano music with a polished, pop-influenced sound.
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D.
Fighter Mafia
Fighter Mafia was an informal group of U.S. Air Force officers and analysts in the 1960s–70s who championed energy‑maneuverability theory and lightweight, maneuverable fighter designs that heavily influenced aircraft like the F-16.
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E.
Mafia series
The Mafia series is a collection of story-driven action-adventure video games that follow organized crime families across different eras, known for their cinematic narratives and richly detailed open-world settings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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film ⓘ parody film ⓘ |
| basedOn | mafia films ⓘ |
| character |
Anthony Cortino
NERFINISHED
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Diane Steen NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincenzo Cortino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John R. Leonetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jim Abrahams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Buena Vista Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Malcolm Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGenreElement | mob satire ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live action ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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parody ⓘ slapstick comedy ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Jane Austen's Mafia! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Bill Conti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
broad slapstick humor
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spoofing classic mob movies ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parodies |
Casino
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Goodfellas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Godfather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | American parody cinema ⓘ |
| producer | Bill Badalato NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-07-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| spoofs | organized crime genre ⓘ |
| starring |
Billy Burke
NERFINISHED
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Christina Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay Mohr NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Viterelli NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympia Dukakis NERFINISHED ⓘ Pamela Gidley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Mafia! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Greg Norberg
NERFINISHED
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Jim Abrahams NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael McManus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mafia! Description of subject: Mafia! is a 1998 American parody film that spoofs classic mob movies like The Godfather and Casino with broad, slapstick humor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.