Meet Dave
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Meet Dave is a 2008 science fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as both a human-shaped spaceship and its tiny alien captain, blending slapstick humor with a fish-out-of-water storyline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meet Dave canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4890002 — 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: Meet Dave Context triple: [Don Zimmerman, notableWork, Meet Dave]
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A.
Dave (TV series)
Dave is an American comedy television series created by and starring rapper Lil Dicky, loosely based on his life and rise in the music industry.
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B.
Dave (1993 film)
Dave is a 1993 political comedy film about an ordinary man who is recruited to impersonate the President of the United States, leading to humorous and heartfelt consequences.
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C.
The Mister
The Mister is a contemporary romance novel by E. L. James, known for its Cinderella-style love story and for being her follow-up to the Fifty Shades series.
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D.
Maximum Bob
Maximum Bob is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends dark humor with a story about a hardline Florida judge entangled in quirky, dangerous situations.
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E.
Master Man
Master Man is a Nazi supervillain in Marvel Comics, often portrayed as a physically enhanced adversary of the World War II–era superhero team the Invaders.
- 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: Meet Dave Target entity description: Meet Dave is a 2008 science fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as both a human-shaped spaceship and its tiny alien captain, blending slapstick humor with a fish-out-of-water storyline.
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A.
Dave (TV series)
Dave is an American comedy television series created by and starring rapper Lil Dicky, loosely based on his life and rise in the music industry.
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B.
Dave (1993 film)
Dave is a 1993 political comedy film about an ordinary man who is recruited to impersonate the President of the United States, leading to humorous and heartfelt consequences.
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C.
The Mister
The Mister is a contemporary romance novel by E. L. James, known for its Cinderella-style love story and for being her follow-up to the Fifty Shades series.
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D.
Maximum Bob
Maximum Bob is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends dark humor with a story about a hardline Florida judge entangled in quirky, dangerous situations.
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E.
Master Man
Master Man is a Nazi supervillain in Marvel Comics, often portrayed as a physically enhanced adversary of the World War II–era superhero team the Invaders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| boxOfficeWorldwideUSD | 50200000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 60000000 ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Clark Mathis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Brian Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Ned Bastille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
family film ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Captain of the ship
ⓘ
Gina Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 2 ⓘ No. 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ No. 4 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alien encounter
ⓘ
fish out of water ⓘ identity and humanity ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dave Ming Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Debney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Tiny aliens pilot a human-shaped spaceship to Earth and the captain and crew struggle to understand human behavior while searching for a lost device. ⓘ |
| producer |
Guy Oseary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Bostick NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Ekins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Guy Walks Into a Bar Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regency Enterprises NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2008-07-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bill Corbett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rob Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Ed Helms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ Gabrielle Union NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Caan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Rob Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Meet Dave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Meet Dave Description of subject: Meet Dave is a 2008 science fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as both a human-shaped spaceship and its tiny alien captain, blending slapstick humor with a fish-out-of-water storyline.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.