Grumpy Old Men
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Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as feuding elderly neighbors whose rivalry is reignited when a new woman moves to their small Minnesota town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Grumpier Old Men | 13 |
| Grumpy Old Men canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1476642 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grumpy Old Men Context triple: [Lawrence Weingarten, notableWork, Grumpy Old Men]
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A.
Same Old Man
"Same Old Man" is a song by Joanna Newsom from her 2010 album *Have One on Me*, known for its intricate lyrics and distinctive harp-driven folk sound.
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B.
Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib is a classic 1949 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who oppose each other in a high-profile court case about gender equality.
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C.
Mr. Saturday Night
Mr. Saturday Night is a 1992 comedy-drama film, later adapted into a stage musical, in which Billy Crystal portrays an aging Borscht Belt comedian reflecting on his fading career and fractured relationships.
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Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude is a 1971 dark romantic comedy film that became a cult classic for its offbeat love story between a morbid young man and a free-spirited elderly woman, emblematic of countercultural cinema of its era.
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E.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
- 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: Grumpy Old Men Target entity description: Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as feuding elderly neighbors whose rivalry is reignited when a new woman moves to their small Minnesota town.
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A.
Same Old Man
"Same Old Man" is a song by Joanna Newsom from her 2010 album *Have One on Me*, known for its intricate lyrics and distinctive harp-driven folk sound.
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B.
Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib is a classic 1949 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who oppose each other in a high-profile court case about gender equality.
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C.
Mr. Saturday Night
Mr. Saturday Night is a 1992 comedy-drama film, later adapted into a stage musical, in which Billy Crystal portrays an aging Borscht Belt comedian reflecting on his fading career and fractured relationships.
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D.
Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude is a 1971 dark romantic comedy film that became a cult classic for its offbeat love story between a morbid young man and a free-spirited elderly woman, emblematic of countercultural cinema of its era.
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E.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
- 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: Grumpy Old Men Description of subject: Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as feuding elderly neighbors whose rivalry is reignited when a new woman moves to their small Minnesota town.
Referenced by (25)
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John Uhler Lemmon III
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