Patch Adams
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Patch Adams is a 1998 comedy-drama film in which Robin Williams portrays a doctor who uses humor and compassion to treat patients, inspired by the real-life physician Hunter "Patch" Adams.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patch Adams canonical | 29 |
| Patch Adams (film) | 3 |
| Patch Adams (1998 film) | 2 |
| the life of Hunter "Patch" Adams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232569 — 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: Patch Adams Context triple: [Robin Williams, notableWork, Patch Adams]
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The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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B.
What About Bob?
What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
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C.
American Pie
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film that became a pop-culture phenomenon for its raunchy humor and coming-of-age storyline centered on a group of high school friends.
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D.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
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E.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
- 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: Patch Adams Target entity description: Patch Adams is a 1998 comedy-drama film in which Robin Williams portrays a doctor who uses humor and compassion to treat patients, inspired by the real-life physician Hunter "Patch" Adams.
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A.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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B.
What About Bob?
What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
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C.
American Pie
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film that became a pop-culture phenomenon for its raunchy humor and coming-of-age storyline centered on a group of high school friends.
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D.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
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E.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
- 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: Patch Adams Description of subject: Patch Adams is a 1998 comedy-drama film in which Robin Williams portrays a doctor who uses humor and compassion to treat patients, inspired by the real-life physician Hunter "Patch" Adams.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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