Roadie
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Roadie is a 1980 rock-comedy film starring Meat Loaf as a Texas truck driver who becomes an unlikely road crew legend in the music world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roadie canonical | 2 |
| Roadie (soundtrack) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6976176 — 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: Roadie Context triple: [Meat Loaf, notableWork, Roadie]
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A.
Roadies
Roadies is a comedy-drama television series created by Cameron Crowe that follows the behind-the-scenes lives of the crew working on a touring rock band.
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B.
The Highway Rat
The Highway Rat is a popular children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler about a greedy, thieving rat whose misdeeds on the highway eventually catch up with him.
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C.
Gypsy Biker
Gypsy Biker is a song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 2007 album "Magic," that reflects on loss, war, and the disillusionment of the American working class.
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D.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a landmark 1969 counterculture road movie that helped launch the New Hollywood era with its low-budget, anti-establishment style and iconic performances by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson.
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E.
Freerider
Freerider is a famous big-wall free climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, renowned for its difficulty and for being the line Alex Honnold soloed in the film "Free Solo."
- 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: Roadie Target entity description: Roadie is a 1980 rock-comedy film starring Meat Loaf as a Texas truck driver who becomes an unlikely road crew legend in the music world.
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A.
Roadies
Roadies is a comedy-drama television series created by Cameron Crowe that follows the behind-the-scenes lives of the crew working on a touring rock band.
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B.
The Highway Rat
The Highway Rat is a popular children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler about a greedy, thieving rat whose misdeeds on the highway eventually catch up with him.
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C.
Gypsy Biker
Gypsy Biker is a song by Bruce Springsteen, featured on his 2007 album "Magic," that reflects on loss, war, and the disillusionment of the American working class.
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D.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a landmark 1969 counterculture road movie that helped launch the New Hollywood era with its low-budget, anti-establishment style and iconic performances by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson.
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E.
Freerider
Freerider is a famous big-wall free climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, renowned for its difficulty and for being the line Alex Honnold soloed in the film "Free Solo."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film ⓘ rock comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Big Boy Medlin ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alice Cooper
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Art Carney ⓘ Asleep at the Wheel ⓘ Blondie ⓘ Don Cornelius ⓘ Eddie Rabbitt ⓘ Hank Williams Jr. ⓘ Kaki Hunter ⓘ Meat Loaf ⓘ Ramones ⓘ Roy Orbison ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy | Meat Loaf ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | David Myers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Alan Rudolph ⓘ |
| distributedBy | United Artists ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tom Walls ⓘ |
| filmRatingUSA | R ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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rock comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
music industry
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rock music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Travis W. Redfish ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Artie Kane ⓘ |
| occupation |
roadie
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truck driver ⓘ |
| producer | Cary Brokaw ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Fox-Rank ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1980-06-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alan Rudolph
ⓘ
Big Boy Medlin ⓘ Michael Ventura ⓘ |
| setIn | Texas ⓘ |
| starredActor | Meat Loaf ⓘ |
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: Roadie Description of subject: Roadie is a 1980 rock-comedy film starring Meat Loaf as a Texas truck driver who becomes an unlikely road crew legend in the music world.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roadie