Cecil B. Demented (film)
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"Cecil B. Demented" is a 2000 satirical black comedy film by John Waters about a renegade underground filmmaker and his anarchic crew who kidnap a Hollywood star to wage war on mainstream cinema.
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| Cecil B. Demented (film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6444473 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Cecil B. Demented (film) Context triple: [Adrian Grenier, appearedIn, Cecil B. Demented (film)]
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Angry Candy
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L'Emmerdeur
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Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is an album by the band The Swingers, known for its blend of new wave and pop-rock sounds.
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Gremlins
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Crash Twinsanity
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil B. Demented (film) Target entity description: "Cecil B. Demented" is a 2000 satirical black comedy film by John Waters about a renegade underground filmmaker and his anarchic crew who kidnap a Hollywood star to wage war on mainstream cinema.
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A.
Angry Candy
Angry Candy is a collection of dark, emotionally intense short stories by Harlan Ellison that often explore themes of death, grief, and human vulnerability.
-
B.
L'Emmerdeur
L'Emmerdeur is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film by Édouard Molinaro, starring Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel, about a suicidal man who inadvertently disrupts a hitman's assignment.
-
C.
Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is an album by the band The Swingers, known for its blend of new wave and pop-rock sounds.
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D.
Gremlins
Gremlins is a 1984 horror-comedy film about mischievous creatures wreaking havoc in a small town, blending dark humor with creature-feature thrills and becoming a cult classic.
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E.
Crash Twinsanity
Crash Twinsanity is a 2004 3D platformer in the Crash Bandicoot series known for its open-world level design, comedic tone, and the uneasy partnership between Crash and his nemesis Doctor Neo Cortex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Adrian Grenier
NERFINISHED
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Alicia Witt NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Noseworthy NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Melanie Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ Mink Stole NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Hearst NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricki Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Dorff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert M. Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | John Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Artisan Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jeffrey Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | A Dirty Shame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Pecker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
crime comedy ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasTagline |
Demented forever.
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He’s got a gun… and an attitude. ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Cecil B. Demented
NERFINISHED
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Honey Whitlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | J. G. Thirlwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | John Waters filmography ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A renegade underground filmmaker and his anarchic crew kidnap a Hollywood star to wage war on mainstream cinema. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Melanie Griffith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stephen Dorff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Christine Vachon
NERFINISHED
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John Fiedler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-08-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Baltimore, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
anarchism in art
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anti-Hollywood sentiment ⓘ underground filmmaking ⓘ |
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