The Great Buck Howard
E452325
The Great Buck Howard is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a washed-up mentalist attempting a career comeback, starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Great Buck Howard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4556363 — 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: The Great Buck Howard Context triple: [Maxim Knight, hasActedIn, The Great Buck Howard]
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A.
Billy Buffalo
Billy Buffalo is the blue, anthropomorphic buffalo who serves as the official mascot of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, entertaining fans at games and team events.
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B.
Gentle Ben
Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
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C.
Woodie
Woodie is a central character known for embodying the laid-back, carefree spirit associated with "good vibes."
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D.
Herbie Husker
Herbie Husker is the cowboy-hatted, overall-wearing agricultural-themed mascot representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cornhuskers athletic teams.
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E.
Pecos Bill
Pecos Bill is a legendary cowboy folk hero of the American West, popularized in tall tales and later adapted in various media as an exaggerated symbol of frontier bravado and humor.
- 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: The Great Buck Howard Target entity description: The Great Buck Howard is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a washed-up mentalist attempting a career comeback, starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks.
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A.
Billy Buffalo
Billy Buffalo is the blue, anthropomorphic buffalo who serves as the official mascot of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, entertaining fans at games and team events.
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B.
Gentle Ben
Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
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C.
Woodie
Woodie is a central character known for embodying the laid-back, carefree spirit associated with "good vibes."
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D.
Herbie Husker
Herbie Husker is the cowboy-hatted, overall-wearing agricultural-themed mascot representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cornhuskers athletic teams.
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E.
Pecos Bill
Pecos Bill is a legendary cowboy folk hero of the American West, popularized in tall tales and later adapted in various media as an exaggerated symbol of frontier bravado and humor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | experiences of Sean McGinly working with The Amazing Kreskin ⓘ |
| cinematography | Tak Fujimoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Sean McGinly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Magnolia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Folsey Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt0460810 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fame
ⓘ
mentor-protégé relationship ⓘ show business ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Buck Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Troy Gable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Blake Neely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A washed-up mentalist attempts a career comeback with the help of a young assistant. ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Gary Goetzman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margo Klewans NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Playtone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2008-01-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Sean McGinly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| starring |
Adam Scott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colin Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ Conan O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ Debra Monk NERFINISHED ⓘ Emily Blunt NERFINISHED ⓘ Griffin Dunne NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay Leno NERFINISHED ⓘ John Malkovich NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Fischler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricky Jay NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Zahn NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Great Buck Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Sean McGinly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Great Buck Howard Description of subject: The Great Buck Howard is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a washed-up mentalist attempting a career comeback, starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.