The Daytrippers
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The Daytrippers is a 1996 American indie comedy-drama film about a dysfunctional family’s chaotic road trip to New York City, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Hope Davis, Parker Posey, and Liev Schreiber.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Daytrippers canonical | 4 |
| The Day Trippers | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5617417 — 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 Daytrippers Context triple: [Hope Davis, notableWork, The Daytrippers]
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A.
The Tourists
The Tourists were a late-1970s British new wave band best known as the pre-Eurythmics group featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
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B.
The Suburbans
The Suburbans is a 1999 American comedy film about a one-hit-wonder 1980s band attempting a comeback in the 1990s.
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C.
The Rosebuds
The Rosebuds are an American indie rock band from North Carolina known for their melodic, emotionally driven songs that blend pop, rock, and folk influences.
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D.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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E.
The Jim Carroll Band
The Jim Carroll Band was a punk rock group formed by poet and author Jim Carroll, best known for their 1980 album "Catholic Boy" and its hit single "People Who Died."
- 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 Daytrippers Target entity description: The Daytrippers is a 1996 American indie comedy-drama film about a dysfunctional family’s chaotic road trip to New York City, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Hope Davis, Parker Posey, and Liev Schreiber.
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A.
The Tourists
The Tourists were a late-1970s British new wave band best known as the pre-Eurythmics group featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
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B.
The Suburbans
The Suburbans is a 1999 American comedy film about a one-hit-wonder 1980s band attempting a comeback in the 1990s.
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C.
The Rosebuds
The Rosebuds are an American indie rock band from North Carolina known for their melodic, emotionally driven songs that blend pop, rock, and folk influences.
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D.
Royal Trux
Royal Trux is an American experimental rock duo known for their lo-fi, noise-infused sound and influential role in the 1990s indie and underground rock scenes.
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E.
The Jim Carroll Band
The Jim Carroll Band was a punk rock group formed by poet and author Jim Carroll, best known for their 1980 album "Catholic Boy" and its hit single "People Who Died."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Inwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Greg Mottola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Anne McCabe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDebutOf | Greg Mottola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
road movie ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Anne Meara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Campbell Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Liev Schreiber NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcia Gay Harden NERFINISHED ⓘ Parker Posey NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat McNamara NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Tucci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family relationships
ⓘ
marital infidelity ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
| musicBy | Steven Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | ensemble cast of emerging independent film actors of the 1990s ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman discovers a love letter that may indicate her husband is having an affair and travels with her dysfunctional family from Long Island to New York City to confront him. ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Nancy Tenenbaum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Soderbergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | low-budget independent production ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Greg Mottola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1990s ⓘ |
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 Daytrippers Description of subject: The Daytrippers is a 1996 American indie comedy-drama film about a dysfunctional family’s chaotic road trip to New York City, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Hope Davis, Parker Posey, and Liev Schreiber.
Referenced by (6)
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The Day Trippers
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The Day Trippers