film "Cocktail" (1988)

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The 1988 film "Cocktail" is a romantic drama starring Tom Cruise as an ambitious young bartender whose flair for showy drink-mixing leads to personal and romantic complications.

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Label	Occurrences
Cocktail (1988 film)	5
film "Cocktail" (1988) canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15735898 — 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: film "Cocktail" (1988)
Context triple: [Brian Flanagan, firstAppearance, film "Cocktail" (1988)]

A. film "Can't Hardly Wait"
"Can't Hardly Wait" is a 1998 teen comedy film that follows a group of high school graduates navigating love, friendship, and identity during a wild graduation party.
B. Blue Movie
Blue Movie is a satirical novel by Terry Southern that lampoons Hollywood through the story of a director attempting to create a high-budget pornographic art film.
C. 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.
D. film "Sid and Nancy"
"Sid and Nancy" is a 1986 biographical drama film that chronicles the tumultuous relationship between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen amid the late-1970s punk rock scene.
E. Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction film about a human and an alien soldier who must overcome their mutual hatred and learn to cooperate after being stranded together on a hostile planet.
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: film "Cocktail" (1988)
Target entity description: The 1988 film "Cocktail" is a romantic drama starring Tom Cruise as an ambitious young bartender whose flair for showy drink-mixing leads to personal and romantic complications.

A. film "Can't Hardly Wait"
"Can't Hardly Wait" is a 1998 teen comedy film that follows a group of high school graduates navigating love, friendship, and identity during a wild graduation party.
B. Blue Movie
Blue Movie is a satirical novel by Terry Southern that lampoons Hollywood through the story of a director attempting to create a high-budget pornographic art film.
C. 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.
D. film "Sid and Nancy"
"Sid and Nancy" is a 1986 biographical drama film that chronicles the tumultuous relationship between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen amid the late-1970s punk rock scene.
E. Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction film about a human and an alien soldier who must overcome their mutual hatred and learn to cooperate after being stranded together on a hostile planet.
F. None of above. chosen