Dead Poets Society
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Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film about an unorthodox English teacher who inspires his students to embrace poetry, individuality, and "carpe diem" at a conservative boarding school.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Poets Society canonical | 43 |
| Dead Poets Society (student club) | 2 |
| Dead Poets Society (1989 film) | 1 |
| Dead Poets Society universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T535753 — 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: Dead Poets Society Context triple: [Norman Lloyd, notableWork, Dead Poets Society]
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A.
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film about a troubled mathematical genius from South Boston, co-written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
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B.
The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film about high school students who discover their teachers are being taken over by alien parasites.
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C.
The Graduate
The Graduate is a landmark 1967 American film directed by Mike Nichols, celebrated for its satirical take on suburban malaise, iconic performances, and influential use of a Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack.
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D.
Doubt
Doubt is a 2008 drama film, adapted from John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, that explores themes of faith, morality, and suspicion within a 1960s Catholic school.
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E.
L.A. Story
L.A. Story is a whimsical 1991 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, known for its surreal humor and satirical take on the city's culture, written by and starring Steve Martin.
- 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: Dead Poets Society Target entity description: Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film about an unorthodox English teacher who inspires his students to embrace poetry, individuality, and "carpe diem" at a conservative boarding school.
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A.
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film about a troubled mathematical genius from South Boston, co-written by and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
-
B.
The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film about high school students who discover their teachers are being taken over by alien parasites.
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C.
The Graduate
The Graduate is a landmark 1967 American film directed by Mike Nichols, celebrated for its satirical take on suburban malaise, iconic performances, and influential use of a Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack.
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D.
Doubt
Doubt is a 2008 drama film, adapted from John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, that explores themes of faith, morality, and suspicion within a 1960s Catholic school.
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E.
L.A. Story
L.A. Story is a whimsical 1991 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, known for its surreal humor and satirical take on the city's culture, written by and starring Steve Martin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dead Poets Society Description of subject: Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film about an unorthodox English teacher who inspires his students to embrace poetry, individuality, and "carpe diem" at a conservative boarding school.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dead Poets Society (student club)
this entity surface form:
Dead Poets Society (student club)
this entity surface form:
Dead Poets Society universe
this entity surface form:
Dead Poets Society (1989 film)