What Women Want
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What Women Want is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt about a chauvinistic advertising executive who gains the ability to hear women's thoughts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| What Women Want canonical | 16 |
| What Women Want (2000 film) | 2 |
| What Women Want franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4365447 — 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: What Women Want Context triple: [Helen Hunt, notableWork, What Women Want]
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A.
What Men Want
What Men Want is a 2019 romantic comedy film in which Taraji P. Henson plays a sports agent who suddenly gains the ability to hear men's thoughts, leading to both professional advantages and personal complications.
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B.
What a Woman Wants
"What a Woman Wants" is a musical number from the stage adaptation of the film *Kinky Boots*, featuring lyrics by Cyndi Lauper that explores themes of desire, identity, and empowerment.
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C.
A Woman in a Man's World
"A Woman in a Man's World" is a soul/R&B song best known as the B-side to Chaka Khan’s classic single "I’m Every Woman."
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D.
A Woman's Worth
"A Woman's Worth" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that celebrates female value and respect, released as a single from her debut album "Songs in A Minor."
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E.
What a Girl Wants
"What a Girl Wants" is a pop and R&B song by Christina Aguilera that became one of her early signature hits around the turn of the millennium.
- 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: What Women Want Target entity description: What Women Want is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt about a chauvinistic advertising executive who gains the ability to hear women's thoughts.
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A.
What Men Want
What Men Want is a 2019 romantic comedy film in which Taraji P. Henson plays a sports agent who suddenly gains the ability to hear men's thoughts, leading to both professional advantages and personal complications.
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B.
What a Woman Wants
"What a Woman Wants" is a musical number from the stage adaptation of the film *Kinky Boots*, featuring lyrics by Cyndi Lauper that explores themes of desire, identity, and empowerment.
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C.
A Woman in a Man's World
"A Woman in a Man's World" is a soul/R&B song best known as the B-side to Chaka Khan’s classic single "I’m Every Woman."
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D.
A Woman's Worth
"A Woman's Worth" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that celebrates female value and respect, released as a single from her debut album "Songs in A Minor."
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E.
What a Girl Wants
"What a Girl Wants" is a pop and R&B song by Christina Aguilera that became one of her early signature hits around the turn of the millennium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | approximately $374 million ⓘ |
| budget | approximately $70 million ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Dean Cundey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Nancy Meyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Don Zimmerman
NERFINISHED
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Thomas J. Nordberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy comedy
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romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasRemake | What Men Want NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorRole |
Helen Hunt as Darcy McGuire
NERFINISHED
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Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Darcy McGuire
NERFINISHED
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Nick Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alan Silvestri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | mind reading ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | gender relations ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A chauvinistic advertising executive gains the ability to hear women’s thoughts and reevaluates his attitudes and relationships. ⓘ |
| producer |
Bruce A. Block
NERFINISHED
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Matt Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Meyers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Icon Productions
NERFINISHED
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Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | December 15, 2000 ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
2000
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2019 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 127 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Cathy Yuspa
NERFINISHED
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Diane Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Alda
NERFINISHED
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Ashley Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen Hunt NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Holly NERFINISHED ⓘ Marisa Tomei NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Diane Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | What Women Want NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: What Women Want Description of subject: What Women Want is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt about a chauvinistic advertising executive who gains the ability to hear women's thoughts.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What Women Want (2000 film)
this entity surface form:
What Women Want franchise
this entity surface form:
What Women Want (2000 film)