Big Fan
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Big Fan is a dark comedy-drama film about an obsessive New York Giants fan whose life unravels after a violent encounter with his favorite player.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Fan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8651087 — 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: Big Fan Context triple: [Patton Oswalt, notableWork, Big Fan]
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A.
The Fan
The Fan is a 1996 psychological thriller film about an obsessive baseball fan whose fixation on his favorite player turns dangerously violent.
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B.
The Fan
The Fan is the popular nickname for Beijing's National Indoor Stadium, a major multi-purpose arena known for hosting events during the 2008 and 2022 Olympic Games.
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C.
Fan y Big
Fan y Big is a prominent peak in the central Brecon Beacons of South Wales, known for its distinctive cliffs and panoramic views.
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D.
Fanatikerne
Fanatikerne is a notable painting by Norwegian artist Adolph Tidemand depicting religious zealots in a dramatic, realist style.
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E.
Super Star
Super Star is a powerful, temporary invincibility-granting item in the Super Mario video game series that lets characters defeat enemies by simply touching them.
- 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: Big Fan Target entity description: Big Fan is a dark comedy-drama film about an obsessive New York Giants fan whose life unravels after a violent encounter with his favorite player.
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A.
The Fan
The Fan is a 1996 psychological thriller film about an obsessive baseball fan whose fixation on his favorite player turns dangerously violent.
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B.
The Fan
The Fan is the popular nickname for Beijing's National Indoor Stadium, a major multi-purpose arena known for hosting events during the 2008 and 2022 Olympic Games.
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C.
Fan y Big
Fan y Big is a prominent peak in the central Brecon Beacons of South Wales, known for its distinctive cliffs and panoramic views.
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D.
Fanatikerne
Fanatikerne is a notable painting by Norwegian artist Adolph Tidemand depicting religious zealots in a dramatic, realist style.
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E.
Super Star
Super Star is a powerful, temporary invincibility-granting item in the Super Mario video game series that lets characters defeat enemies by simply touching them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedInPartOn | Robert D. Siegel’s original script ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Paul Aufiero – Patton Oswalt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Michael Simmonds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert D. Siegel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | First Independent Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Robert Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| follows | life of an obsessive New York Giants fan ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ sports film ⓘ |
| hasFanBase | independent film audiences ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
celebrity culture
ⓘ
identity ⓘ obsession ⓘ sports fandom ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTone |
bleak
ⓘ
darkly comic ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Paul Aufiero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jeff Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Patton Oswalt’s dramatic lead performance
ⓘ
depiction of extreme sports fandom ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An obsessive New York Giants fan’s life unravels after a violent encounter with his favorite player ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Elan Bogarin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert D. Siegel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | independent film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Robert D. Siegel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City
ⓘ
Staten Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportDepicted | American football ⓘ |
| starring |
Kevin Corrigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marcia Jean Kurtz NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Rapaport NERFINISHED ⓘ Patton Oswalt NERFINISHED ⓘ Serafina Fiore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamDepicted | New York Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Robert D. Siegel 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: Big Fan Description of subject: Big Fan is a dark comedy-drama film about an obsessive New York Giants fan whose life unravels after a violent encounter with his favorite player.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.