A Serious Man
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A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Serious Man canonical | 11 |
| A Serious Man – character Larry Gopnik | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3993205 — 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)
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Target entity: A Serious Man Context triple: [Ethan Coen, notableWork, A Serious Man]
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Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 surreal drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman that follows a theater director whose increasingly elaborate stage production blurs the boundaries between art, reality, and identity.
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The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir crime film by the Coen brothers, known for its stark black-and-white cinematography and understated, existential storytelling.
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Bored to Death
Bored to Death is an American comedy television series that blends noir detective tropes with offbeat humor, following a struggling writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private investigator in Brooklyn.
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Birdman
Birdman is an American rapper, record executive, and co-founder of Cash Money Records, known for his influential role in Southern hip hop and for mentoring artists like Lil Wayne.
- 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: A Serious Man Target entity description: A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.
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A.
Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 surreal drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman that follows a theater director whose increasingly elaborate stage production blurs the boundaries between art, reality, and identity.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir crime film by the Coen brothers, known for its stark black-and-white cinematography and understated, existential storytelling.
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D.
Bored to Death
Bored to Death is an American comedy television series that blends noir detective tropes with offbeat humor, following a struggling writer who moonlights as an unlicensed private investigator in Brooklyn.
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E.
Birdman
Birdman is an American rapper, record executive, and co-founder of Cash Money Records, known for his influential role in Southern hip hop and for mentoring artists like Lil Wayne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: A Serious Man Description of subject: A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A Serious Man – character Larry Gopnik