Joe
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"Joe" is a 1970 American drama film, directed by John G. Avildsen, that explores class conflict and reactionary violence through the unlikely alliance between a wealthy executive and a bigoted factory worker.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2831574 — 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: Joe Context triple: [John G. Avildsen, directed, Joe]
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Joe
Joe is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Joe
Joe is a central character in the classic 1959 comedy film "Some Like It Hot," where he is one of two musicians who disguise themselves as women to escape mobsters.
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Joe
Joe is the given name of Joe Nickell, an American investigator and author known for his work examining alleged paranormal and mysterious phenomena.
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Joe
Joe is the given name of Joe Rosenthal, the American photographer famous for his iconic World War II image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.
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Joe
Joe is a common masculine given name, often a short form of Joseph, used widely in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Joe Target entity description: "Joe" is a 1970 American drama film, directed by John G. Avildsen, that explores class conflict and reactionary violence through the unlikely alliance between a wealthy executive and a bigoted factory worker.
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Joe
Joe is a central character in the classic 1959 comedy film "Some Like It Hot," where he is one of two musicians who disguise themselves as women to escape mobsters.
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Joe
Joe is a central character in the musical "The Most Happy Fella," serving as the young, attractive ranch hand whose romantic involvement complicates the story’s love triangle.
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Joe
Joe is the given name of Joe Rosenthal, the American photographer famous for his iconic World War II image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.
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Joe
Joe is the given name of Joe Nickell, an American investigator and author known for his work examining alleged paranormal and mysterious phenomena.
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Joe
Joe is an American R&B singer and songwriter known for his smooth vocals and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| academyAwardCategoryNominated | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Eric Saarinen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
drug use
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murder ⓘ vigilante justice ⓘ |
| director | John G. Avildsen ⓘ |
| distributor |
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
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surface form:
Cannon Releasing Corporation
|
| editedBy | George W. Brooks ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Bill Compton
ⓘ
Joe Curran ⓘ Melissa Compton ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live action ⓘ |
| follows | alliance between wealthy executive and bigoted factory worker ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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drama ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | color ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | R ⓘ |
| hasSubject | social commentary on American society ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Joe self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class conflict
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culture clash ⓘ reactionary violence ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joe Kaps ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | violence against hippie subculture ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableFor | early film role of Susan Sarandon ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
generational conflict
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political polarization in the United States ⓘ working-class resentment ⓘ |
| producer | David Gil ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Fabian Productions ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1970-07-15 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 107 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Norman Wexler ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | late 1960s ⓘ |
| stars |
Dennis Patrick
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Peter Boyle ⓘ Susan Sarandon ⓘ |
| writerNominated | Norman Wexler ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Joe Description of subject: "Joe" is a 1970 American drama film, directed by John G. Avildsen, that explores class conflict and reactionary violence through the unlikely alliance between a wealthy executive and a bigoted factory worker.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.