The Squid and the Whale
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The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 semi-autobiographical indie drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores the emotional fallout of a bitter divorce on a Brooklyn family in the 1980s.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Squid and the Whale canonical | 27 |
| 2005 film The Squid and the Whale | 1 |
| The Squid and the Whale (2005 film) | 1 |
| The Squid and the Whale universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2498365 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Squid and the Whale Context triple: [Laura Linney, notableWork, The Squid and the Whale]
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Talk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of love, loneliness, and communication through the intertwined lives of two men caring for women in comas.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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D.
Away We Go!
Away We Go! is the original working title of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, used before the show was retitled for its Broadway debut.
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E.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 period drama film directed by Todd Haynes that explores race, sexuality, and social norms in 1950s suburban America.
- 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: The Squid and the Whale Target entity description: The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 semi-autobiographical indie drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores the emotional fallout of a bitter divorce on a Brooklyn family in the 1980s.
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A.
Talk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of love, loneliness, and communication through the intertwined lives of two men caring for women in comas.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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D.
Away We Go!
Away We Go! is the original working title of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, used before the show was retitled for its Broadway debut.
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E.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 period drama film directed by Todd Haynes that explores race, sexuality, and social norms in 1950s suburban America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The Squid and the Whale Description of subject: The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 semi-autobiographical indie drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores the emotional fallout of a bitter divorce on a Brooklyn family in the 1980s.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bernard Berkman in The Squid and the Whale
subject linked to:
Jeffrey Warren Daniels
linked to: The Squid and the Whale
subject linked to:
Robert David Yeoman
linked to: The Squid and the Whale
linked to: The Squid and the Whale