The Heartbreak Kid
E761247
The Heartbreak Kid is a 1993 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Michael Jenkins about a schoolteacher who falls in love with one of her students.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Heartbreak Kid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8849758 — 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: The Heartbreak Kid Context triple: [Michael Jenkins, notableWork, The Heartbreak Kid]
-
A.
The Heartbreak Kid
The Heartbreak Kid is a 1972 romantic black comedy film, directed by Elaine May and acclaimed for its sharp, satirical take on marriage and infidelity.
-
B.
The Heartaches Are Free
"The Heartaches Are Free" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam featured on his 2000 album *Tomorrow’s Sounds Today*.
-
C.
The Tears of a Clown
"The Tears of a Clown" is a 1970 Motown soul song by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, renowned for its upbeat, circus-like melody contrasted with lyrics about hidden heartache.
-
D.
Foolish Heart
"Foolish Heart" is a song by the Grateful Dead featured on their 1989 studio album "Built to Last."
-
E.
Mister Heartbreak
Mister Heartbreak is an experimental art-pop album by performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, known for its innovative electronic soundscapes and avant-garde storytelling.
- 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 Heartbreak Kid Target entity description: The Heartbreak Kid is a 1993 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Michael Jenkins about a schoolteacher who falls in love with one of her students.
-
A.
The Heartbreak Kid
The Heartbreak Kid is a 1972 romantic black comedy film, directed by Elaine May and acclaimed for its sharp, satirical take on marriage and infidelity.
-
B.
The Heartaches Are Free
"The Heartaches Are Free" is a country song by Dwight Yoakam featured on his 2000 album *Tomorrow’s Sounds Today*.
-
C.
The Tears of a Clown
"The Tears of a Clown" is a 1970 Motown soul song by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, renowned for its upbeat, circus-like melody contrasted with lyrics about hidden heartache.
-
D.
Foolish Heart
"Foolish Heart" is a song by the Grateful Dead featured on their 1989 studio album "Built to Last."
-
E.
Mister Heartbreak
Mister Heartbreak is an experimental art-pop album by performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, known for its innovative electronic soundscapes and avant-garde storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Heartbreak Kid (play)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
play by Richard Barrett ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alex Dimitriades
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Claudia Karvan NERFINISHED ⓘ Doris Younane NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartbreak High ensemble (several actors later in the TV series) ⓘ |
| characterInPlot |
high school student
ⓘ
schoolteacher ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| director | Michael Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Network Ten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Heartbreak High NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Heartbreak Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfStory | Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television film ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Network Ten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Heartbreak High franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A schoolteacher falls in love with one of her students. ⓘ |
| producer | Ben Gannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Richard Barrett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Australian high school ⓘ |
| startTime | 1993 ⓘ |
| subject | teacher–student romance ⓘ |
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: The Heartbreak Kid Description of subject: The Heartbreak Kid is a 1993 Australian romantic comedy film directed by Michael Jenkins about a schoolteacher who falls in love with one of her students.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.