The Cannonball Run
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The Cannonball Run is a 1981 action-comedy film about an illegal cross-country car race, known for its ensemble cast of major stars and its blend of high-speed stunts and slapstick humor.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cannonball Run canonical | 8 |
| Cannonball Run | 2 |
| Cannonball Run film series | 1 |
| The Cannonball Run (1981 film) | 1 |
| The Cannonball Run (film appearance) | 1 |
| The Cannonball Run (film concept) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8545900 — 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 Cannonball Run Context triple: [Farrah Fawcett, notableWork, The Cannonball Run]
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Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II is a 1984 ensemble comedy film and sequel to The Cannonball Run, featuring a star-studded cast in a cross-country car race filled with slapstick humor and outrageous stunts.
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B.
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action-comedy film about a charismatic trucker and his partner racing to illegally transport beer across state lines while being pursued by a relentless sheriff.
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C.
Hollywood Stunt Driver
Hollywood Stunt Driver is a live-action stunt show at Warner Bros. Movie World featuring high-speed car chases, precision driving, and cinematic special effects.
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D.
Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder is a 1990 American sports action drama film starring Tom Cruise as a hotshot NASCAR driver navigating rivalry, romance, and personal redemption on the stock-car racing circuit.
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E.
Life in the Fast Lane
"Life in the Fast Lane" is a 1976 hard rock song by the Eagles, known for its driving guitar riff and lyrics depicting the excess and hedonism of 1970s Los Angeles.
- 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 Cannonball Run Target entity description: The Cannonball Run is a 1981 action-comedy film about an illegal cross-country car race, known for its ensemble cast of major stars and its blend of high-speed stunts and slapstick humor.
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A.
Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II is a 1984 ensemble comedy film and sequel to The Cannonball Run, featuring a star-studded cast in a cross-country car race filled with slapstick humor and outrageous stunts.
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B.
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action-comedy film about a charismatic trucker and his partner racing to illegally transport beer across state lines while being pursued by a relentless sheriff.
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C.
Hollywood Stunt Driver
Hollywood Stunt Driver is a live-action stunt show at Warner Bros. Movie World featuring high-speed car chases, precision driving, and cinematic special effects.
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D.
Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder is a 1990 American sports action drama film starring Tom Cruise as a hotshot NASCAR driver navigating rivalry, romance, and personal redemption on the stock-car racing circuit.
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E.
Life in the Fast Lane
"Life in the Fast Lane" is a 1976 hard rock song by the Eagles, known for its driving guitar riff and lyrics depicting the excess and hedonism of 1970s Los Angeles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Cannonball Run Description of subject: The Cannonball Run is a 1981 action-comedy film about an illegal cross-country car race, known for its ensemble cast of major stars and its blend of high-speed stunts and slapstick humor.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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