Trading Places
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Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trading Places canonical | 35 |
| Trading Places universe | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T544442 — 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: Trading Places Context triple: [Eddie Murphy, notableWork, Trading Places]
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A.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film about two con men on the French Riviera, best known for its witty script and Steve Martin’s acclaimed performance alongside Michael Caine.
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B.
Three Amigos
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as out-of-work silent film actors mistaken for real heroes in a Mexican village.
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C.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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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.
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.
- 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: Trading Places Target entity description: Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
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A.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film about two con men on the French Riviera, best known for its witty script and Steve Martin’s acclaimed performance alongside Michael Caine.
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B.
Three Amigos
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as out-of-work silent film actors mistaken for real heroes in a Mexican village.
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C.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Trading Places Description of subject: Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Don Ameche
this entity surface form:
Trading Places universe
this entity surface form:
Trading Places universe