Hoosiers
E238637
Hoosiers is a 1986 sports drama film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team’s underdog run to the state championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest sports movies ever made.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hoosiers canonical | 13 |
| Hoosiers (1986 film) | 3 |
| film "Hoosiers" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172737 — 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: Hoosiers Context triple: [Dennis Hopper, notableWork, Hoosiers]
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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.
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B.
Hancock
Hancock is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
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Hancock
Hancock is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Hancock, a key figure of the American Revolution and first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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D.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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E.
Rushmore
Rushmore is a 1998 Wes Anderson coming-of-age comedy film starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, known for its offbeat humor, distinctive visual style, and deadpan performances.
- 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: Hoosiers Target entity description: Hoosiers is a 1986 sports drama film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team’s underdog run to the state championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest sports movies ever made.
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A.
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.
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B.
Hancock
Hancock is a small rural town in western Massachusetts known for its scenic Berkshire landscapes and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Hancock
Hancock is a prominent surname most famously associated with John Hancock, a key figure of the American Revolution and first signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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D.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama film about an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice, leading to encounters with legendary players and reflections on family and redemption.
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E.
Rushmore
Rushmore is a 1998 Wes Anderson coming-of-age comedy film starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, known for its offbeat humor, distinctive visual style, and deadpan performances.
- 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: Hoosiers Description of subject: Hoosiers is a 1986 sports drama film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team’s underdog run to the state championship, widely regarded as one of the greatest sports movies ever made.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hoosiers (1986 film)
this entity surface form:
Hoosiers (1986 film)
this entity surface form:
Hoosiers (1986 film)
this entity surface form:
film "Hoosiers"
subject surface form:
Orion Pictures