The Pursuit of Happyness
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The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 biographical drama film starring Will Smith as struggling salesman Chris Gardner, depicting his journey from homelessness to success.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Pursuit of Happyness canonical | 22 |
| The Pursuit of Happyness (2006 film) | 1 |
| The Pursuit of Happyness (memoir) | 1 |
| film The Pursuit of Happyness | 1 |
| film The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553156 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pursuit of Happyness Context triple: [Steve Tisch, notableWork, The Pursuit of Happyness]
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Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
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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C.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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D.
Cinderella Man
Cinderella Man is a 2005 biographical sports drama film about Depression-era boxer James J. Braddock, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ron Howard.
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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: The Pursuit of Happyness Target entity description: The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 biographical drama film starring Will Smith as struggling salesman Chris Gardner, depicting his journey from homelessness to success.
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A.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
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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C.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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D.
Cinderella Man
Cinderella Man is a 2005 biographical sports drama film about Depression-era boxer James J. Braddock, starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ron Howard.
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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 (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: The Pursuit of Happyness Description of subject: The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 biographical drama film starring Will Smith as struggling salesman Chris Gardner, depicting his journey from homelessness to success.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Pursuit of Happyness (memoir)
this entity surface form:
film The Pursuit of Happyness
this entity surface form:
film The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
this entity surface form:
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006 film)
subject surface form:
Melanie Thandiwe Newton