Paul Blart: Mall Cop
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 comedy film starring Kevin James as a bumbling but well-meaning mall security guard who must thwart a heist during a busy shopping day.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Blart: Mall Cop canonical | 4 |
| Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8121305 — 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: Paul Blart: Mall Cop Context triple: [Keir O’Donnell, notableWork, Paul Blart: Mall Cop]
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A.
Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is an album by the band The Swingers, known for its blend of new wave and pop-rock sounds.
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B.
Mallrats
Mallrats is a 1995 cult comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows two slacker friends killing time at a New Jersey shopping mall after being dumped by their girlfriends.
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C.
Grown Ups
Grown Ups is a 2010 American comedy film about a group of childhood friends reuniting as adults, starring Adam Sandler alongside an ensemble cast.
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D.
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses is a 2011 dark comedy film about three friends who plot to murder their abusive employers, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis.
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E.
The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries is a humorous autobiographical essay by David Sedaris recounting his experiences working as a Christmas elf at Macy’s in New York City.
- 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: Paul Blart: Mall Cop Target entity description: Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 comedy film starring Kevin James as a bumbling but well-meaning mall security guard who must thwart a heist during a busy shopping day.
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A.
Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is an album by the band The Swingers, known for its blend of new wave and pop-rock sounds.
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B.
Mallrats
Mallrats is a 1995 cult comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows two slacker friends killing time at a New Jersey shopping mall after being dumped by their girlfriends.
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C.
Grown Ups
Grown Ups is a 2010 American comedy film about a group of childhood friends reuniting as adults, starring Adam Sandler alongside an ensemble cast.
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D.
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses is a 2011 dark comedy film about three friends who plot to murder their abusive employers, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis.
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E.
The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries is a humorous autobiographical essay by David Sedaris recounting his experiences working as a Christmas elf at Macy’s in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | approximately $183 million ⓘ |
| budget | approximately $26 million ⓘ |
| characterOccupation | mall security guard ⓘ |
| cinematography | Russ T. Alsobrook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Steve Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Sony Pictures Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorParentCompany | Sony Pictures Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jeff Gourson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement |
family comedy
ⓘ
slapstick ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Kevin James as Paul Blart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Paul Blart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Waddy Wachtel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a bumbling but well-meaning mall security guard ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A mild-mannered mall security guard must stop a group of criminals staging a heist during a busy shopping day. ⓘ |
| producer |
Adam Sandler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Giarraputo NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin James NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Garner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Happy Madison Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-01-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| sequelReleaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| setIn | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bobby Cannavale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jayma Mays NERFINISHED ⓘ Keir O’Donnell NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin James NERFINISHED ⓘ Raini Rodriguez NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Rannazzisi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| writer |
Kevin James
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nick Bakay 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: Paul Blart: Mall Cop Description of subject: Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 comedy film starring Kevin James as a bumbling but well-meaning mall security guard who must thwart a heist during a busy shopping day.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
this entity surface form:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
this entity surface form:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
this entity surface form:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2