Bowfinger (1999 film)
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Bowfinger (1999 film) is a 1999 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy about a desperate filmmaker who secretly shoots a movie around an unwitting action star.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bowfinger (1999 film) canonical | 4 |
| Bowfinger | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3287167 — 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: Bowfinger (1999 film) Context triple: [Frank Oz, notableWork, Bowfinger (1999 film)]
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A.
The Birdcage
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, that satirizes family, politics, and LGBTQ+ identity through the chaos surrounding a gay couple meeting their son’s conservative future in-laws.
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B.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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C.
Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 satirical comedy film about a dim-witted male supermodel, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, that parodies the fashion industry and celebrity culture.
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D.
Bedazzled
Bedazzled is a 1967 British satirical fantasy-comedy film in which a hapless man makes Faustian bargains with the Devil, played by Peter Cook, to win the woman he loves.
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E.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film starring Hugh Grant that follows a group of friends through a series of social gatherings, blending witty humor with heartfelt romance.
- 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: Bowfinger (1999 film) Target entity description: Bowfinger (1999 film) is a 1999 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy about a desperate filmmaker who secretly shoots a movie around an unwitting action star.
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A.
The Birdcage
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, that satirizes family, politics, and LGBTQ+ identity through the chaos surrounding a gay couple meeting their son’s conservative future in-laws.
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B.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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C.
Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 satirical comedy film about a dim-witted male supermodel, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, that parodies the fashion industry and celebrity culture.
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D.
Bedazzled
Bedazzled is a 1967 British satirical fantasy-comedy film in which a hapless man makes Faustian bargains with the Devil, played by Peter Cook, to win the woman he loves.
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E.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film starring Hugh Grant that follows a group of friends through a series of social gatherings, blending witty humor with heartfelt romance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Bowfinger (1999 film) Description of subject: Bowfinger (1999 film) is a 1999 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy about a desperate filmmaker who secretly shoots a movie around an unwitting action star.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bowfinger
this entity surface form:
Bowfinger
this entity surface form:
Bowfinger
subject surface form:
Frank Oz