We Bought a Zoo
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We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 family drama film, directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, about a widowed father who buys and renovates a struggling zoo as a fresh start for his family.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| We Bought a Zoo canonical | 28 |
| We Bought a Zoo (memoir) | 2 |
| Dylan Mee – We Bought a Zoo | 1 |
| We Bought a Zoo (book) | 1 |
| We Bought a Zoo (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1557102 — 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: We Bought a Zoo Context triple: [Thomas Haden Church, appearedIn, We Bought a Zoo]
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If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo is a Dr. Seuss–themed interactive play area and attraction located in the Seuss Landing section of Universal's Islands of Adventure.
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El gran zoo
El gran zoo is a celebrated poetry collection by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén that uses the metaphor of a fantastical zoo to deliver sharp social and political satire.
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The Zebra Derby
The Zebra Derby is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
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D.
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a romantic drama film set in a Depression-era traveling circus, adapted from Sara Gruen’s novel and known for its blend of romance, hardship, and spectacle.
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The Day the Goose Got Loose
The Day the Goose Got Loose is a humorous children's picture book about barnyard chaos that ensues when a goose escapes, written by Reeve Lindbergh and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
- 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: We Bought a Zoo Target entity description: We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 family drama film, directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, about a widowed father who buys and renovates a struggling zoo as a fresh start for his family.
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A.
If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo is a Dr. Seuss–themed interactive play area and attraction located in the Seuss Landing section of Universal's Islands of Adventure.
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B.
El gran zoo
El gran zoo is a celebrated poetry collection by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén that uses the metaphor of a fantastical zoo to deliver sharp social and political satire.
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C.
The Zebra Derby
The Zebra Derby is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
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D.
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a romantic drama film set in a Depression-era traveling circus, adapted from Sara Gruen’s novel and known for its blend of romance, hardship, and spectacle.
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E.
The Day the Goose Got Loose
The Day the Goose Got Loose is a humorous children's picture book about barnyard chaos that ensues when a goose escapes, written by Reeve Lindbergh and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: We Bought a Zoo Description of subject: We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 family drama film, directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, about a widowed father who buys and renovates a struggling zoo as a fresh start for his family.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Benjamin Mee
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Mary