Tommy Boy
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Tommy Boy is a 1995 American comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade, known for its slapstick humor and enduring cult following.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Boy canonical | 34 |
| "Tommy Boy" (1995) | 1 |
| Tommy Boy (1995 film) | 1 |
| the film Tommy Boy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1356014 — 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: Tommy Boy Context triple: [Rob Lowe, notableWork, Tommy Boy]
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A.
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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B.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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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.
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D.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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E.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
- 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: Tommy Boy Target entity description: Tommy Boy is a 1995 American comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade, known for its slapstick humor and enduring cult following.
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A.
That Thing You Do!
That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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B.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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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.
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D.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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E.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
- 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: Tommy Boy Description of subject: Tommy Boy is a 1995 American comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade, known for its slapstick humor and enduring cult following.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dennehy
linked to: Tommy Boy
subject linked to:
Chris Farley and David Spade
subject linked to:
Chris Farley and David Spade
linked to: Tommy Boy
subject linked to:
Richard Hayden in Tommy Boy
subject linked to:
Richard Hayden in Tommy Boy
linked to: Tommy Boy