Lorenzo's Oil
E282119
Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 biographical drama film about parents searching for a treatment for their son's rare genetic disorder, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lorenzo's Oil canonical | 11 |
| film "Lorenzo's Oil" | 3 |
| Lorenzo’s Oil | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2599007 — 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: Lorenzo's Oil Context triple: [Susan Sarandon, notableWork, Lorenzo's Oil]
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A.
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
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B.
Tadzio
Tadzio is a beautiful Polish boy who becomes the obsessive muse of the aging writer Gustav von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann’s novella "Death in Venice."
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C.
Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 romantic drama film, adapted from Mark Medoff’s play, that explores the relationship between a speech teacher and a deaf woman and is renowned for Marlee Matlin’s Oscar-winning performance.
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D.
Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic historical drama film, based on Jim Harrison's novella, that follows three brothers and their father in early 20th-century Montana as love, war, and family conflict shape their intertwined destinies.
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E.
What Dreams May Come
What Dreams May Come is a metaphysical fantasy novel by Richard Matheson that explores love, the afterlife, and reincarnation through a man's journey beyond death to reunite with his wife.
- 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: Lorenzo's Oil Target entity description: Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 biographical drama film about parents searching for a treatment for their son's rare genetic disorder, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte.
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A.
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
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B.
Tadzio
Tadzio is a beautiful Polish boy who becomes the obsessive muse of the aging writer Gustav von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann’s novella "Death in Venice."
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C.
Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 romantic drama film, adapted from Mark Medoff’s play, that explores the relationship between a speech teacher and a deaf woman and is renowned for Marlee Matlin’s Oscar-winning performance.
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D.
Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic historical drama film, based on Jim Harrison's novella, that follows three brothers and their father in early 20th-century Montana as love, war, and family conflict shape their intertwined destinies.
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E.
What Dreams May Come
What Dreams May Come is a metaphysical fantasy novel by Richard Matheson that explores love, the afterlife, and reincarnation through a man's journey beyond death to reunite with his wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Lorenzo's Oil Description of subject: Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 biographical drama film about parents searching for a treatment for their son's rare genetic disorder, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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