Dan in Real Life
E196174
Dan in Real Life is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film starring Steve Carell as a widowed advice columnist who unexpectedly falls for his brother's girlfriend during a chaotic family gathering.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan in Real Life canonical | 11 |
| Dan in Real Life (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1755446 — 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: Dan in Real Life Context triple: [Dianne Wiest, notableWork, Dan in Real Life]
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A.
De Dannan
De Dannan is an influential Irish traditional music group known for its innovative arrangements and for launching the careers of several prominent Irish singers and musicians.
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B.
This Life
"This Life" is a rock-influenced theme song best known for opening the television series *Sons of Anarchy*, capturing its outlaw biker tone and atmosphere.
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C.
Handsome Dan
Handsome Dan is the live bulldog mascot and enduring symbol of Yale University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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D.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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E.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
- 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: Dan in Real Life Target entity description: Dan in Real Life is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film starring Steve Carell as a widowed advice columnist who unexpectedly falls for his brother's girlfriend during a chaotic family gathering.
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A.
De Dannan
De Dannan is an influential Irish traditional music group known for its innovative arrangements and for launching the careers of several prominent Irish singers and musicians.
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B.
This Life
"This Life" is a rock-influenced theme song best known for opening the television series *Sons of Anarchy*, capturing its outlaw biker tone and atmosphere.
-
C.
Handsome Dan
Handsome Dan is the live bulldog mascot and enduring symbol of Yale University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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D.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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E.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Dan in Real Life Description of subject: Dan in Real Life is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film starring Steve Carell as a widowed advice columnist who unexpectedly falls for his brother's girlfriend during a chaotic family gathering.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dan in Real Life (screenplay)