The Longest Yard
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The Longest Yard is a 1974 sports comedy-drama film starring Burt Reynolds about a disgraced football quarterback who leads a team of prison inmates against their guards.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Longest Yard canonical | 23 |
| The Longest Yard (1974 film) | 9 |
| 1974 film "The Longest Yard" | 1 |
| The Longest Yard (art-house/limited campaigns support) | 1 |
| The Longest Yard film franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1890489 — 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 Longest Yard Context triple: [Robert Aldrich, notableWork, The Longest Yard]
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A.
The Longest Yard (2005 film)
The Longest Yard (2005 film) is a 2005 sports comedy remake about a disgraced former NFL quarterback who leads a team of prison inmates in a football game against their abusive guards.
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B.
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film starring Paul Newman as a defiant inmate who becomes a symbol of resistance against authority.
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C.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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D.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama road film directed by Steven Spielberg and noted for its blend of suspense, dark humor, and social commentary.
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E.
Hud
Hud is a prophet in Islamic tradition, known for being sent to guide the ancient people of ʿĀd away from idolatry and toward the worship of one God.
- 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 Longest Yard Target entity description: The Longest Yard is a 1974 sports comedy-drama film starring Burt Reynolds about a disgraced football quarterback who leads a team of prison inmates against their guards.
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A.
The Longest Yard (2005 film)
The Longest Yard (2005 film) is a 2005 sports comedy remake about a disgraced former NFL quarterback who leads a team of prison inmates in a football game against their abusive guards.
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B.
Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film starring Paul Newman as a defiant inmate who becomes a symbol of resistance against authority.
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C.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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D.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama road film directed by Steven Spielberg and noted for its blend of suspense, dark humor, and social commentary.
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E.
Hud
Hud is a prophet in Islamic tradition, known for being sent to guide the ancient people of ʿĀd away from idolatry and toward the worship of one God.
- 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: The Longest Yard Description of subject: The Longest Yard is a 1974 sports comedy-drama film starring Burt Reynolds about a disgraced football quarterback who leads a team of prison inmates against their guards.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Warden Hazen – James Cromwell
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Warden Hazen – James Cromwell
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subject linked to:
John Steadman
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