The Great Debaters
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The Great Debaters is a 2007 American drama film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Denzel Washington, that chronicles the true story of a pioneering African American college debate team in the 1930s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Great Debaters canonical | 12 |
| film "The Great Debaters" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1779091 — 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: The Great Debaters Context triple: [Harpo Films, notableWork, The Great Debaters]
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A.
Quills
Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
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B.
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American sports drama film that follows the integration of a high school football team in Virginia and the leadership of its new Black head coach, Herman Boone.
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C.
School Daze
School Daze is a 1988 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee that explores social and political issues at a historically Black college.
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D.
Mr. Holland's Opus
Mr. Holland's Opus is a 1995 drama film about a dedicated music teacher whose lifelong dream of composing is reshaped by the profound impact he has on his students.
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E.
American Educator
American Educator is a quarterly professional journal published by the American Federation of Teachers that features research-based articles and commentary on education practice and policy.
- 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: The Great Debaters Target entity description: The Great Debaters is a 2007 American drama film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Denzel Washington, that chronicles the true story of a pioneering African American college debate team in the 1930s.
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A.
Quills
Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
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B.
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American sports drama film that follows the integration of a high school football team in Virginia and the leadership of its new Black head coach, Herman Boone.
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C.
School Daze
School Daze is a 1988 musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee that explores social and political issues at a historically Black college.
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D.
Mr. Holland's Opus
Mr. Holland's Opus is a 1995 drama film about a dedicated music teacher whose lifelong dream of composing is reshaped by the profound impact he has on his students.
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E.
American Educator
American Educator is a quarterly professional journal published by the American Federation of Teachers that features research-based articles and commentary on education practice and policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Great Debaters Description of subject: The Great Debaters is a 2007 American drama film, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Denzel Washington, that chronicles the true story of a pioneering African American college debate team in the 1930s.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
film "The Great Debaters"