Terms of Endearment
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Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows the complex mother-daughter relationship over several decades and won multiple Academy Awards.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terms of Endearment canonical | 18 |
| Sam Burns in Terms of Endearment | 1 |
| Terms of Endearment (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090025 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terms of Endearment Context triple: [Jack Nicholson, notableWork, Terms of Endearment]
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film about a couple’s painful divorce and ensuing custody battle, acclaimed for its performances and emotional realism.
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Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, centered on a widower whose son calls a radio show to help find him a new partner.
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C.
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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The Way We Were
"The Way We Were" is a 1973 romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, renowned for its bittersweet love story and iconic title song.
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Rain Man
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Terms of Endearment Target entity description: Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows the complex mother-daughter relationship over several decades and won multiple Academy Awards.
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A.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film about a couple’s painful divorce and ensuing custody battle, acclaimed for its performances and emotional realism.
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B.
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 romantic comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, centered on a widower whose son calls a radio show to help find him a new partner.
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C.
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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D.
The Way We Were
"The Way We Were" is a 1973 romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, renowned for its bittersweet love story and iconic title song.
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E.
Rain Man
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Terms of Endearment Description of subject: Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows the complex mother-daughter relationship over several decades and won multiple Academy Awards.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sam Burns in Terms of Endearment
subject surface form:
John Joseph Nicholson
this entity surface form:
Terms of Endearment (novel)