Putney Swope
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Putney Swope is a 1969 satirical comedy film that skewers race, advertising, and corporate America through the story of a Black man who unexpectedly becomes the head of a Madison Avenue ad agency.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Putney Swope canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3376675 — 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: Putney Swope Context triple: [Robert Downey Sr., notableWork, Putney Swope]
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A.
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement is a historic New York City social service and arts organization founded in 1893 that provides health, education, and community programs to low-income residents of the Lower East Side.
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B.
Putney
Putney is a riverside suburb in Sydney, Australia, known for its residential character and waterfront location along the Parramatta River.
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C.
Putney
Putney is a riverside district in southwest London known for its rowing heritage and as the traditional starting point of the annual Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames.
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D.
Ovington
Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
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E.
Boerum Hill
Boerum Hill is a historic, brownstone-lined residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, known for its tree-lined streets, boutiques, and restaurants.
- 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: Putney Swope Target entity description: Putney Swope is a 1969 satirical comedy film that skewers race, advertising, and corporate America through the story of a Black man who unexpectedly becomes the head of a Madison Avenue ad agency.
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A.
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement is a historic New York City social service and arts organization founded in 1893 that provides health, education, and community programs to low-income residents of the Lower East Side.
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B.
Putney
Putney is a riverside suburb in Sydney, Australia, known for its residential character and waterfront location along the Parramatta River.
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C.
Putney
Putney is a riverside district in southwest London known for its rowing heritage and as the traditional starting point of the annual Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames.
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D.
Ovington
Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
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E.
Boerum Hill
Boerum Hill is a historic, brownstone-lined residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, known for its tree-lined streets, boutiques, and restaurants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Putney Swope Description of subject: Putney Swope is a 1969 satirical comedy film that skewers race, advertising, and corporate America through the story of a Black man who unexpectedly becomes the head of a Madison Avenue ad agency.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert Downey Sr.
subject surface form:
Robert Downey Sr.
subject surface form:
Robert Downey Sr.