A Man Called Otto
E541919
A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks as a grumpy widower whose life is changed by his new neighbors, adapted from the Swedish novel and film "A Man Called Ove."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Man Called Otto canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5693996 — 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: A Man Called Otto Context triple: [David Magee, notableWork, A Man Called Otto]
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A.
Klaus
Klaus is a masculine given name of German origin commonly used in German-speaking countries.
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B.
Till
Till is a character in Anzia Yezierska’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," contributing to the book’s exploration of race, power, and personal freedom in antebellum America.
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C.
The Swede
The Swede is a prominent and menacing antagonist in the television series "Hell on Wheels," known for his cold, calculating nature and complex relationship with the show's protagonists.
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D.
Saltburn
Saltburn is a 2023 darkly comic psychological thriller film written and directed by Emerald Fennell, following an Oxford student’s obsessive entanglement with an aristocratic family at their lavish country estate.
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E.
Wrath of Man
Wrath of Man is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham as a mysterious cash-truck security guard with a hidden agenda.
- 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 Man Called Otto Target entity description: A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks as a grumpy widower whose life is changed by his new neighbors, adapted from the Swedish novel and film "A Man Called Ove."
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A.
Klaus
Klaus is a masculine given name of German origin commonly used in German-speaking countries.
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B.
Till
Till is a character in Anzia Yezierska’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," contributing to the book’s exploration of race, power, and personal freedom in antebellum America.
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C.
The Swede
The Swede is a prominent and menacing antagonist in the television series "Hell on Wheels," known for his cold, calculating nature and complex relationship with the show's protagonists.
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D.
Saltburn
Saltburn is a 2023 darkly comic psychological thriller film written and directed by Emerald Fennell, following an Oxford student’s obsessive entanglement with an aristocratic family at their lavish country estate.
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E.
Wrath of Man
Wrath of Man is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham as a mysterious cash-truck security guard with a hidden agenda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | A Man Called Ove (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
A Man Called Ove (2015 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A Man Called Ove (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Marisol
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Otto Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Matthias Koenigswieser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Marc Forster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Matt Chesse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
coping with loss
ⓘ
intergenerational relationships ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement | feel-good film ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Otto Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
community
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ grief ⓘ suicide ⓘ widower ⓘ |
| musicBy | Thomas Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Marc Forster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Goetzman NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Playtone NERFINISHED ⓘ SF Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2022-12-30 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 126 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Magee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 21st century ⓘ |
| starring |
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mariana Treviño NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Keller NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ Truman Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereLocation | United States 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: A Man Called Otto Description of subject: A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks as a grumpy widower whose life is changed by his new neighbors, adapted from the Swedish novel and film "A Man Called Ove."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.