Life
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Life is a 1999 American comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as two men wrongfully sentenced to life in prison, whose decades-long friendship unfolds behind bars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Life canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8620635 — 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: Life Context triple: [Bernie Mac, notableWork, Life]
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A.
Life
Life was a pioneering American photojournalism magazine published by Time Inc., renowned for its powerful photography and coverage of major 20th-century events and culture.
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B.
Life
Life is a landmark BBC nature documentary series that explores the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth through high-definition footage and innovative filming techniques.
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C.
Life
Life is an American crime drama television series that follows a wrongly imprisoned detective who returns to the police force after being exonerated.
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D.
Life
"Life" is Keith Richards' candid and critically acclaimed autobiography, detailing his experiences as the Rolling Stones' guitarist and his tumultuous personal life.
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E.
Life
Life is the 2018 comeback studio album by British new wave band Culture Club, marking their first release of original material in nearly two decades.
- 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: Life Target entity description: Life is a 1999 American comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as two men wrongfully sentenced to life in prison, whose decades-long friendship unfolds behind bars.
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A.
Life
Life was a pioneering American photojournalism magazine published by Time Inc., renowned for its powerful photography and coverage of major 20th-century events and culture.
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B.
Life
Life is a landmark BBC nature documentary series that explores the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth through high-definition footage and innovative filming techniques.
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C.
Life
"Life" is Keith Richards' candid and critically acclaimed autobiography, detailing his experiences as the Rolling Stones' guitarist and his tumultuous personal life.
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D.
Life
Life is an American crime drama television series that follows a wrongly imprisoned detective who returns to the police force after being exonerated.
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E.
Life
Life is the 2018 comeback studio album by British new wave band Culture Club, marking their first release of original material in nearly two decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Anthony Anderson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barry Shabaka Henley NERFINISHED ⓘ Bernie Mac NERFINISHED ⓘ Bokeem Woodbine NERFINISHED ⓘ Brent Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ Clarence Williams III NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Torry NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisa Nicole Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ Miguel A. Núñez Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Cassavetes NERFINISHED ⓘ Obba Babatundé NERFINISHED ⓘ R. Lee Ermey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Geoffrey Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ted Demme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jeff Gourson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
prison film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
friendship
ⓘ
life imprisonment ⓘ wrongful imprisonment ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Adam Schiff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wyclef Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Grazer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Imagine Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1999-04-16 ⓘ |
| runtime | 108 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Matthew Stone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Ramsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| starring |
Eddie Murphy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martin Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Eddie Murphy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matthew Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Ramsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Life Description of subject: Life is a 1999 American comedy-drama film starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as two men wrongfully sentenced to life in prison, whose decades-long friendship unfolds behind bars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.