Birdy
E239548
"Birdy" is a 1984 psychological war drama film, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, about the intense post-Vietnam friendship between two traumatized young men.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Birdy canonical | 15 |
| Birdy (soundtrack) | 4 |
| Birdy (film) | 2 |
| Birdy (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2152071 — 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: Birdy Context triple: [Matthew Modine, notableWork, Birdy]
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A.
Red Bird
Red Bird was a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader who led a notable Native American resistance against U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.
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B.
Byrde
Byrde is an archaic or variant spelling of the word "bird," historically used in Middle and Early Modern English texts.
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C.
Vogel
Vogel is a German-origin surname borne by numerous individuals, including figures in sports, arts, science, and public life.
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D.
Pájara
Pájara is a coastal municipality on the southwestern part of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its extensive beaches and tourist resorts such as Costa Calma and Morro Jable.
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E.
Jenny Wren
"Jenny Wren" is a Paul McCartney song, styled as an acoustic, Beatlesque ballad, from his 2005 album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard."
- 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: Birdy Target entity description: "Birdy" is a 1984 psychological war drama film, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, about the intense post-Vietnam friendship between two traumatized young men.
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A.
Red Bird
Red Bird was a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader who led a notable Native American resistance against U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.
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B.
Byrde
Byrde is an archaic or variant spelling of the word "bird," historically used in Middle and Early Modern English texts.
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C.
Vogel
Vogel is a German-origin surname borne by numerous individuals, including figures in sports, arts, science, and public life.
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D.
Pájara
Pájara is a coastal municipality on the southwestern part of Fuerteventura in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its extensive beaches and tourist resorts such as Costa Calma and Morro Jable.
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E.
Jenny Wren
"Jenny Wren" is a Paul McCartney song, styled as an acoustic, Beatlesque ballad, from his 2005 album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Birdy Description of subject: "Birdy" is a 1984 psychological war drama film, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, about the intense post-Vietnam friendship between two traumatized young men.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Modine
subject linked to:
Security (Peter Gabriel album)
linked to: Birdy
linked to: Birdy
linked to: Birdy
linked to: Birdy
linked to: Birdy
linked to: Birdy