Rain Man
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Rain Man is a 1988 American drama film about a self-centered man who discovers his estranged autistic savant brother during a cross-country journey, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rain Man canonical | 18 |
| Play It Again, Sam | 1 |
| Rain Man (1988 film) | 1 |
| Rainman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2984782 — 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: Rain Man Context triple: [Bonnie Hunt, notableWork, Rain Man]
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A.
Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman is a 1992 drama film in which Al Pacino delivers an Oscar-winning performance as a blind, irascible former Army officer.
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B.
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 fantasy-romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen about a movie character who steps off the screen into the real world during the Great Depression.
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C.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film following the life of a kind-hearted but simple man who unwittingly influences several historical events in the United States.
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D.
I Am Sam
I Am Sam is a 2001 drama film about a developmentally disabled father fighting for custody of his young daughter, featuring performances by Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Laura Dern.
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E.
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 satirical science-fiction film about a man who unknowingly lives his entire life as the star of a globally broadcast reality TV show.
- 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: Rain Man Target entity description: Rain Man is a 1988 American drama film about a self-centered man who discovers his estranged autistic savant brother during a cross-country journey, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
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A.
Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman is a 1992 drama film in which Al Pacino delivers an Oscar-winning performance as a blind, irascible former Army officer.
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B.
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 fantasy-romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen about a movie character who steps off the screen into the real world during the Great Depression.
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C.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film following the life of a kind-hearted but simple man who unwittingly influences several historical events in the United States.
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D.
I Am Sam
I Am Sam is a 2001 drama film about a developmentally disabled father fighting for custody of his young daughter, featuring performances by Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Laura Dern.
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E.
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 satirical science-fiction film about a man who unknowingly lives his entire life as the star of a globally broadcast reality TV show.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Rain Man Description of subject: Rain Man is a 1988 American drama film about a self-centered man who discovers his estranged autistic savant brother during a cross-country journey, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rain Man (1988 film)
this entity surface form:
Play It Again, Sam
subject surface form:
Intuition
this entity surface form:
Rainman