The Hudsucker Proxy
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The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Hudsucker Proxy canonical | 14 |
| The Hudsucker Proxy universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1282707 — 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: The Hudsucker Proxy Context triple: [Bill Cobbs, notableWork, The Hudsucker Proxy]
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A.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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B.
Punch Drunk Love
Punch Drunk Love is a track by Common from his album "Universal Mind Control," blending hip hop with experimental, electronic-influenced production.
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C.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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D.
Bulworth
Bulworth is a 1998 satirical political comedy film, written, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty as a disillusioned U.S. senator who begins speaking bluntly on the campaign trail.
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E.
The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 comedic crime caper film written and directed by Rian Johnson, following two con-artist brothers as they attempt one last elaborate swindle involving an eccentric heiress.
- 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: The Hudsucker Proxy Target entity description: The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
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A.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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B.
Punch Drunk Love
Punch Drunk Love is a track by Common from his album "Universal Mind Control," blending hip hop with experimental, electronic-influenced production.
-
C.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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D.
Bulworth
Bulworth is a 1998 satirical political comedy film, written, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty as a disillusioned U.S. senator who begins speaking bluntly on the campaign trail.
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E.
The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 comedic crime caper film written and directed by Rian Johnson, following two con-artist brothers as they attempt one last elaborate swindle involving an eccentric heiress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: The Hudsucker Proxy Description of subject: The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 Coen brothers dark comedy film that satirizes corporate America through the story of a naive mailroom clerk unexpectedly promoted to company president.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Hudsucker Proxy