Eddie the Eagle
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Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 biographical sports comedy-drama film about British ski jumper Michael "Eddie" Edwards, an underdog who became famous for his unlikely participation in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eddie the Eagle canonical | 20 |
| film "Eddie the Eagle" | 3 |
| Eddie the Eagle (2016 film) | 2 |
| Eddie the Eagle (franchise) | 1 |
| Eddie the Eagle: My Story | 1 |
| biographical film "Eddie the Eagle" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2269904 — 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: Eddie the Eagle Context triple: [George Richmond, workedOn, Eddie the Eagle]
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A.
Eddie the Eagle
Eddie the Eagle is the costumed eagle mascot who represents the athletic teams and school spirit of North Carolina Central University.
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Somersault
Somersault is a 2004 Australian coming-of-age drama film, directed by Cate Shortland, that follows a troubled teenage girl seeking escape and self-discovery in a small snowbound town.
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C.
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film that follows two athletes competing for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics, renowned for its inspirational story and iconic Vangelis score.
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Cool Runnings
Cool Runnings is a 1993 sports comedy film loosely based on the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team’s unlikely journey to the Winter Olympics.
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E.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television series about a group of working-class builders from England seeking employment abroad, noted for its blend of humor and social commentary.
- 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: Eddie the Eagle Target entity description: Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 biographical sports comedy-drama film about British ski jumper Michael "Eddie" Edwards, an underdog who became famous for his unlikely participation in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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A.
Eddie the Eagle
Eddie the Eagle is the costumed eagle mascot who represents the athletic teams and school spirit of North Carolina Central University.
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B.
Somersault
Somersault is a 2004 Australian coming-of-age drama film, directed by Cate Shortland, that follows a troubled teenage girl seeking escape and self-discovery in a small snowbound town.
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C.
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film that follows two athletes competing for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics, renowned for its inspirational story and iconic Vangelis score.
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D.
Cool Runnings
Cool Runnings is a 1993 sports comedy film loosely based on the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team’s unlikely journey to the Winter Olympics.
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E.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television series about a group of working-class builders from England seeking employment abroad, noted for its blend of humor and social commentary.
- 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: Eddie the Eagle Description of subject: Eddie the Eagle is a 2016 biographical sports comedy-drama film about British ski jumper Michael "Eddie" Edwards, an underdog who became famous for his unlikely participation in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Taron
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subject linked to:
autobiography "Eddie the Eagle: My Story"
linked to: Eddie the Eagle