The Man with Two Brains
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The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Man with Two Brains canonical | 12 |
| The Man with Two Brains (1983 film) | 1 |
| The Man with Two Brians | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500370 — 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 Man with Two Brains Context triple: [Steve Martin, notableWork, The Man with Two Brains]
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A.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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B.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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C.
If I Only Had a Brain
"If I Only Had a Brain" is a classic, whimsical song from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, sung by the Scarecrow as he longs for intelligence and a better mind.
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D.
Der Gedanke
Der Gedanke is a seminal philosophical essay by Gottlob Frege that analyzes the nature of thoughts, sense, and truth in the philosophy of language and logic.
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E.
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
- 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 Man with Two Brains Target entity description: The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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A.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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B.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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C.
If I Only Had a Brain
"If I Only Had a Brain" is a classic, whimsical song from the 1939 film *The Wizard of Oz*, sung by the Scarecrow as he longs for intelligence and a better mind.
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D.
Der Gedanke
Der Gedanke is a seminal philosophical essay by Gottlob Frege that analyzes the nature of thoughts, sense, and truth in the philosophy of language and logic.
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E.
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Man with Two Brains Description of subject: The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Man with Two Brians
this entity surface form:
The Man with Two Brains (1983 film)