The Big White
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The Big White is a 2005 dark comedy crime film starring Robin Williams as a desperate travel agent who becomes entangled in an insurance fraud scheme in snowy Alaska.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big White canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7940160 — 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 Big White Context triple: [Harry Keramidas, edited, The Big White]
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A.
Big Bear
Big Bear was a prominent 19th-century Plains Cree chief known for his resistance to Canadian government policies and his efforts to protect Indigenous land and sovereignty.
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B.
Snow Summit
Snow Summit is a popular Southern California ski and snowboard resort located in the Big Bear Lake area of the San Bernardino Mountains.
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C.
Blackcomb Mountain
Blackcomb Mountain is one of the two major peaks that make up the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia, renowned for its extensive terrain and world-class skiing and snowboarding.
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D.
Nakiska Ski Resort
Nakiska Ski Resort is a Canadian ski area in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, best known for hosting the alpine skiing events of the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Whitemark
Whitemark is the principal township and administrative centre of Flinders Island in Tasmania, Australia.
- 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 Big White Target entity description: The Big White is a 2005 dark comedy crime film starring Robin Williams as a desperate travel agent who becomes entangled in an insurance fraud scheme in snowy Alaska.
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A.
Big Bear
Big Bear was a prominent 19th-century Plains Cree chief known for his resistance to Canadian government policies and his efforts to protect Indigenous land and sovereignty.
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B.
Snow Summit
Snow Summit is a popular Southern California ski and snowboard resort located in the Big Bear Lake area of the San Bernardino Mountains.
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C.
Blackcomb Mountain
Blackcomb Mountain is one of the two major peaks that make up the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia, renowned for its extensive terrain and world-class skiing and snowboarding.
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D.
Nakiska Ski Resort
Nakiska Ski Resort is a Canadian ski area in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, best known for hosting the alpine skiing events of the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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E.
Whitemark
Whitemark is the principal township and administrative centre of Flinders Island in Tasmania, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy |
Margaret Barnell – Holly Hunter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Barnell – Robin Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Barnell – Woody Harrelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Waters – Giovanni Ribisi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | James Glennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Mark Mylod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Ascendant Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dany Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresElement | snowy landscape ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Manitoba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winnipeg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasColor | color ⓘ |
| hasMPAARating | R ⓘ |
| hasReleaseType | theatrical film ⓘ |
| hasScreenplayType | original screenplay ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime and deception
ⓘ
financial desperation ⓘ insurance fraud ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Paul Barnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Mothersbaugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A financially desperate travel agent in Alaska becomes involved in an insurance fraud scheme after discovering a frozen corpse. ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Noth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Grossberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Damon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2005-10-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| setting | Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alison Lohman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Giovanni Ribisi NERFINISHED ⓘ Holly Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Blake Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Harrelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Collin Friesen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Big White Description of subject: The Big White is a 2005 dark comedy crime film starring Robin Williams as a desperate travel agent who becomes entangled in an insurance fraud scheme in snowy Alaska.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.