The Nutty Professor (1996 film)
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The Nutty Professor (1996 film) is a comedy film in which Eddie Murphy plays an obese, kind-hearted professor who invents a miraculous weight-loss formula that transforms him into a brash alter ego.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Nutty Professor (1996 film) canonical | 17 |
| The Nutty Professor | 11 |
| The Nutty Professor film series | 2 |
| The Nutty Professor (1996 film score) | 1 |
| The Nutty Professor (pre-Broadway tryout) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T544445 — 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 Nutty Professor (1996 film) Context triple: [Eddie Murphy, notableWork, The Nutty Professor (1996 film)]
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A.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is a 2000 comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, with Janet Jackson as the female lead, serving as a sequel to the hit film The Nutty Professor.
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B.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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C.
You’ve Got Mail
"You’ve Got Mail" is a 1998 romantic comedy film about two business rivals who unknowingly fall in love with each other over email, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
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D.
That Thing You Do!
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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E.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
- 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 Nutty Professor (1996 film) Target entity description: The Nutty Professor (1996 film) is a comedy film in which Eddie Murphy plays an obese, kind-hearted professor who invents a miraculous weight-loss formula that transforms him into a brash alter ego.
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A.
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is a 2000 comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, with Janet Jackson as the female lead, serving as a sequel to the hit film The Nutty Professor.
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B.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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C.
You’ve Got Mail
"You’ve Got Mail" is a 1998 romantic comedy film about two business rivals who unknowingly fall in love with each other over email, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
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D.
That Thing You Do!
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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E.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Nutty Professor (1996 film) Description of subject: The Nutty Professor (1996 film) is a comedy film in which Eddie Murphy plays an obese, kind-hearted professor who invents a miraculous weight-loss formula that transforms him into a brash alter ego.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor (1996 film score)
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The Nutty Professor film series
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor (pre-Broadway tryout)
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor film series
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor
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The Nutty Professor