Reuben, Reuben
E142197
Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 American comedy-drama film about a hard-drinking Scottish poet in New England, adapted from Peter De Vries’s novel and noted for Tom Conti’s Oscar-nominated performance.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reuben, Reuben canonical | 5 |
| Gowan McGland in Reuben, Reuben | 1 |
| Reuben, Reuben (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1246350 — 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: Reuben, Reuben Context triple: [Julius J. Epstein, notableWork, Reuben, Reuben]
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A.
Reuben
Reuben is the eldest son of the biblical patriarch Jacob and Leah, regarded as the firstborn of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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B.
Reuben James
"Reuben James" is a 1969 country song, popularized by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, that tells the story of a poor but noble man who helped raise an abandoned child.
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C.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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D.
Roni
"Roni" is a 1988 R&B single by Bobby Brown, known for its smooth new jack swing style and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- 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: Reuben, Reuben Target entity description: Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 American comedy-drama film about a hard-drinking Scottish poet in New England, adapted from Peter De Vries’s novel and noted for Tom Conti’s Oscar-nominated performance.
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A.
Reuben
Reuben is the eldest son of the biblical patriarch Jacob and Leah, regarded as the firstborn of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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B.
Reuben James
"Reuben James" is a 1969 country song, popularized by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, that tells the story of a poor but noble man who helped raise an abandoned child.
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C.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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D.
Roni
"Roni" is a 1988 R&B single by Bobby Brown, known for its smooth new jack swing style and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Reuben, Reuben Description of subject: Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 American comedy-drama film about a hard-drinking Scottish poet in New England, adapted from Peter De Vries’s novel and noted for Tom Conti’s Oscar-nominated performance.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Reuben, Reuben (novel)
this entity surface form:
Gowan McGland in Reuben, Reuben