That Thing You Do!
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That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| That Thing You Do! canonical | 21 |
| That Thing You Do! (film) | 1 |
| That Thing You Do! (song) | 1 |
| appeared in "That Thing You Do!" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500264 — 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: That Thing You Do! Context triple: [Tom Hanks, notableWork, That Thing You Do!]
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A.
What a Girl Wants
"What a Girl Wants" is a pop and R&B song by Christina Aguilera that became one of her early signature hits around the turn of the millennium.
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B.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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C.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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D.
Fist Fight
Fist Fight is a 2017 American comedy film in which two high school teachers, played by Ice Cube and Charlie Day, are set to settle their differences in an after-school fistfight.
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E.
Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, that follows the intertwined lives and relationships of four African-American women.
- 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: That Thing You Do! Target entity description: That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
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A.
What a Girl Wants
"What a Girl Wants" is a pop and R&B song by Christina Aguilera that became one of her early signature hits around the turn of the millennium.
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B.
Sister Act
Sister Act is a popular 1992 musical comedy film in which Whoopi Goldberg plays a lounge singer who hides in a convent under witness protection, leading to comedic and musical chaos.
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C.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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D.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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E.
Fist Fight
Fist Fight is a 2017 American comedy film in which two high school teachers, played by Ice Cube and Charlie Day, are set to settle their differences in an after-school fistfight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: That Thing You Do! Description of subject: That Thing You Do! is a 1996 musical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tom Hanks, about the rapid rise and fall of a fictional 1960s pop band.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
That Thing You Do! (song)
this entity surface form:
That Thing You Do! (film)
this entity surface form:
appeared in "That Thing You Do!"