Boys
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Boys is a 2003 Tamil coming-of-age musical film directed by S. Shankar that follows a group of carefree college friends who form a band and navigate love, ambition, and societal pressures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boys canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8565085 — 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: Boys Context triple: [Shankar, notableWork, Boys]
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A.
Boys
"Boys" is an early rock and roll song best known for its energetic recording by The Beatles, featuring Ringo Starr on lead vocals.
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B.
Boy
Boy is a mysterious feral child with hidden powers who becomes a central companion and key figure in the animated series "Pacific Rim: The Black."
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Boy
Boy is a minor but symbolically important messenger in Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot," whose brief appearances underscore the play’s themes of uncertainty and deferred hope.
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D.
Boy
"Boy" is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2, known for its youthful themes and introducing the band's distinctive post-punk sound.
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E.
Boy/Girl
"Boy/Girl" is a song by U2, originally released as the B-side to their 1980 single "I Will Follow."
- 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: Boys Target entity description: Boys is a 2003 Tamil coming-of-age musical film directed by S. Shankar that follows a group of carefree college friends who form a band and navigate love, ambition, and societal pressures.
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A.
Boys
"Boys" is an early rock and roll song best known for its energetic recording by The Beatles, featuring Ringo Starr on lead vocals.
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B.
Boy
Boy is a mysterious feral child with hidden powers who becomes a central companion and key figure in the animated series "Pacific Rim: The Black."
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C.
Boy
Boy is a minor but symbolically important messenger in Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot," whose brief appearances underscore the play’s themes of uncertainty and deferred hope.
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D.
Boy
"Boy" is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2, known for its youthful themes and introducing the band's distinctive post-punk sound.
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E.
Boy/Girl
"Boy/Girl" is a song by U2, originally released as the B-side to their 1980 single "I Will Follow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tamil-language film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| certificate | U/A ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ravi K. Chandran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| director | S. Shankar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Sri Surya Movies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | V. T. Vijayan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | college students ⓘ |
| follows | group of carefree college friends ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age
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musical ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasSong |
Ale Ale
NERFINISHED
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Boom Boom NERFINISHED ⓘ Girlfriend ⓘ |
| hasSoundtrack | Boys (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Bharath
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Genelia D'Souza NERFINISHED ⓘ Manikandan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nakul NERFINISHED ⓘ Siddharth NERFINISHED ⓘ Thaman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
ambition
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friendship ⓘ love ⓘ societal pressures ⓘ |
| musicComposer | A. R. Rahman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contemporary music soundtrack
ⓘ
portrayal of urban youth culture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement | formation of a music band ⓘ |
| portrays |
challenges faced by aspiring musicians
ⓘ
conflict between youth aspirations and conservative values ⓘ |
| producer | A. M. Rathnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Sri Surya Movies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 29 August 2003 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 172 ⓘ |
| setting | Chennai 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: Boys Description of subject: Boys is a 2003 Tamil coming-of-age musical film directed by S. Shankar that follows a group of carefree college friends who form a band and navigate love, ambition, and societal pressures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.