Brewster McCloud
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Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brewster McCloud canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172297 — 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: Brewster McCloud Context triple: [Margaret Hamilton, appearedIn, Brewster McCloud]
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A.
Tail-Gunner Joe
Tail-Gunner Joe is the derisive nickname given to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, infamous for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations during the early Cold War era.
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B.
Hank Soar
Hank Soar was an American sports figure best known as an NFL player and later a longtime American League baseball umpire.
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C.
Bob Steele
Bob Steele was an American film actor best known for his roles in Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Red Rolfe
Red Rolfe was an American Major League Baseball third baseman and later manager, best known for his standout career with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
David "Lucky" Starr
David "Lucky" Starr is a courageous and resourceful space adventurer who battles interplanetary threats in Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction series.
- 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: Brewster McCloud Target entity description: Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
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A.
Tail-Gunner Joe
Tail-Gunner Joe is the derisive nickname given to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, infamous for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations during the early Cold War era.
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B.
Hank Soar
Hank Soar was an American sports figure best known as an NFL player and later a longtime American League baseball umpire.
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C.
Bob Steele
Bob Steele was an American film actor best known for his roles in Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Red Rolfe
Red Rolfe was an American Major League Baseball third baseman and later manager, best known for his standout career with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
David "Lucky" Starr
David "Lucky" Starr is a courageous and resourceful space adventurer who battles interplanetary threats in Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction series.
- 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: Brewster McCloud Description of subject: Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.