Drugstore Cowboy
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Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film about a group of drug addicts who support their habit by robbing pharmacies, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Dillon.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Drugstore Cowboy canonical | 31 |
| Drugstore Cowboy (novel) | 3 |
| film "Drugstore Cowboy" | 2 |
| "Drugstore Cowboy" | 1 |
| Drugstore Cowboy (1989 film) | 1 |
| semi-autobiographical novel "Drugstore Cowboy" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3034814 — 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: Drugstore Cowboy Context triple: [Gus Van Sant, notableWork, Drugstore Cowboy]
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Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 cult road movie known for its minimalist style, existential themes, and portrayal of car-obsessed drifters racing across the American Southwest.
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Hang 'Em High
"Hang 'Em High" is a 1968 instrumental track by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, known for its soulful, groove-driven reinterpretation of the theme from the Clint Eastwood Western film of the same name.
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Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger is a landmark 1975 concept album by Willie Nelson that tells a cohesive Western-themed story and is widely regarded as one of his greatest and most influential works.
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Last Chance Range
Last Chance Range is a remote mountain range in eastern California’s Mojave Desert, forming part of the rugged terrain near Death Valley and Saline Valley.
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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.
- 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: Drugstore Cowboy Target entity description: Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film about a group of drug addicts who support their habit by robbing pharmacies, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Dillon.
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A.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 cult road movie known for its minimalist style, existential themes, and portrayal of car-obsessed drifters racing across the American Southwest.
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B.
Hang 'Em High
"Hang 'Em High" is a 1968 instrumental track by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, known for its soulful, groove-driven reinterpretation of the theme from the Clint Eastwood Western film of the same name.
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C.
Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger is a landmark 1975 concept album by Willie Nelson that tells a cohesive Western-themed story and is widely regarded as one of his greatest and most influential works.
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D.
Last Chance Range
Last Chance Range is a remote mountain range in eastern California’s Mojave Desert, forming part of the rugged terrain near Death Valley and Saline Valley.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Drugstore Cowboy Description of subject: Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film about a group of drug addicts who support their habit by robbing pharmacies, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Dillon.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Robert David Yeoman
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Daniel Yost
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