Raising Arizona
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Raising Arizona is a 1987 crime-comedy film by the Coen brothers about an ex-con and an ex-cop who kidnap a baby in a misguided attempt to start a family.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raising Arizona canonical | 31 |
| 1987 film Raising Arizona | 1 |
| Raising Arizona universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2887452 — 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: Raising Arizona Context triple: [Trey Wilson, notableWork, Raising Arizona]
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A.
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
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B.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 cult-classic crime comedy film by the Coen brothers, known for its offbeat humor, eccentric characters, and enduring pop-culture influence.
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C.
Last Chance Gulch
Last Chance Gulch is the historic main street and former gold mining site that now serves as the central downtown district of Helena, Montana.
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D.
Killer Joe
Killer Joe is a 2011 neo-noir black comedy crime film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from Tracy Letts' play about a hitman entangled with a dysfunctional Texas family.
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E.
Rooster Cogburn (and the Lady)
Rooster Cogburn (and the Lady) is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and blending action with character-driven humor and drama.
- 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: Raising Arizona Target entity description: Raising Arizona is a 1987 crime-comedy film by the Coen brothers about an ex-con and an ex-cop who kidnap a baby in a misguided attempt to start a family.
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A.
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars as a mentally impaired man released from a psychiatric hospital into a small Southern town.
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B.
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 cult-classic crime comedy film by the Coen brothers, known for its offbeat humor, eccentric characters, and enduring pop-culture influence.
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C.
Last Chance Gulch
Last Chance Gulch is the historic main street and former gold mining site that now serves as the central downtown district of Helena, Montana.
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D.
Killer Joe
Killer Joe is a 2011 neo-noir black comedy crime film directed by William Friedkin, adapted from Tracy Letts' play about a hitman entangled with a dysfunctional Texas family.
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E.
Rooster Cogburn (and the Lady)
Rooster Cogburn (and the Lady) is a 1975 Western film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn, serving as a sequel to True Grit and blending action with character-driven humor and drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
crime comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematography | Barry Sonnenfeld ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director |
Ethan Coen
ⓘ
Joel Coen ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| featuredCharacterType |
bounty hunter
ⓘ
escaped convict ⓘ |
| follows | Blood Simple ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
crime comedy ⓘ slapstick comedy ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Frances McDormand
ⓘ
Holly Hunter ⓘ John Goodman ⓘ Nicolas Cage ⓘ Trey Wilson ⓘ William Forsythe ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Their lawless years are behind them. Their child-rearing years lay ahead. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
ⓘ
family ⓘ parenthood ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Edwina McDunnough
ⓘ
H.I. McDunnough ⓘ Nathan Arizona Jr. ⓘ |
| musicBy | Carter Burwell ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fast-paced dialogue
ⓘ
offbeat humor ⓘ stylized cinematography ⓘ |
| partOf | filmography of the Coen brothers ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An ex-con and an ex-cop kidnap a baby in a misguided attempt to start a family ⓘ |
| portrays |
Holly Hunter as Edwina McDunnough
ⓘ
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough ⓘ Trey Wilson as Nathan Arizona ⓘ |
| producer | Ethan Coen ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| ratingSystem |
MPAA
ⓘ
linked to:
MPAA film rating system
|
| runningTime | approximately 94 minutes ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Arizona ⓘ |
| writer |
Ethan Coen
ⓘ
Joel Coen ⓘ |
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: Raising Arizona Description of subject: Raising Arizona is a 1987 crime-comedy film by the Coen brothers about an ex-con and an ex-cop who kidnap a baby in a misguided attempt to start a family.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nathan Arizona in Raising Arizona
subject linked to:
John
subject linked to:
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough
subject linked to:
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough
subject linked to:
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough
subject linked to:
Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough
linked to: Raising Arizona
linked to: Raising Arizona
subject linked to:
Sonnenfeld