Shallow Hal
E185028
Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, in which Jack Black plays a superficial man who, after being hypnotized, can only see women's inner beauty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shallow Hal canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1630545 — 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: Shallow Hal Context triple: [Jack Black, notableWork, Shallow Hal]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
American Pie
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film that became a pop-culture phenomenon for its raunchy humor and coming-of-age storyline centered on a group of high school friends.
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D.
Superbad
Superbad is a 2007 coming-of-age teen comedy film about two socially awkward high school friends navigating one wild night before graduation.
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E.
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.
- 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: Shallow Hal Target entity description: Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, in which Jack Black plays a superficial man who, after being hypnotized, can only see women's inner beauty.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
American Pie
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film that became a pop-culture phenomenon for its raunchy humor and coming-of-age storyline centered on a group of high school friends.
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D.
Superbad
Superbad is a 2007 coming-of-age teen comedy film about two socially awkward high school friends navigating one wild night before graduation.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Shallow Hal Description of subject: Shallow Hal is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers, in which Jack Black plays a superficial man who, after being hypnotized, can only see women's inner beauty.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thomas Jacob Black