Ghostbusters
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Ghostbusters is a 1984 supernatural comedy film about a team of eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ghostbusters canonical | 64 |
| Ghostbusters (1984 film) | 12 |
| Ghostbusters franchise | 4 |
| Ghostbusters film series | 3 |
| Ghostbusters (song) | 2 |
| Ghostbusters (2016 film) | 1 |
| film "Ghostbusters" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621861 — 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: Ghostbusters Context triple: [Bill Murray, notableWork, Ghostbusters]
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A.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 dark fantasy-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, known for its quirky gothic style and the mischievous bio-exorcist played by Michael Keaton.
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B.
Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
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C.
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus is a 1993 fantasy-comedy film about three resurrected witches wreaking havoc in modern-day Salem, which has since become a cult Halloween classic.
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D.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a groundbreaking 1988 live-action/animated comedy-mystery film that blends cartoon characters with real actors in a noir-style story set in 1940s Hollywood.
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E.
Monsters University
Monsters University is a 2013 Pixar animated prequel to Monsters, Inc. that follows Mike and Sulley’s college years as they train to become professional scarers.
- 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: Ghostbusters Target entity description: Ghostbusters is a 1984 supernatural comedy film about a team of eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.
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A.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 dark fantasy-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, known for its quirky gothic style and the mischievous bio-exorcist played by Michael Keaton.
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B.
Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
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C.
Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus is a 1993 fantasy-comedy film about three resurrected witches wreaking havoc in modern-day Salem, which has since become a cult Halloween classic.
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D.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a groundbreaking 1988 live-action/animated comedy-mystery film that blends cartoon characters with real actors in a noir-style story set in 1940s Hollywood.
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E.
Monsters University
Monsters University is a 2013 Pixar animated prequel to Monsters, Inc. that follows Mike and Sulley’s college years as they train to become professional scarers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Ghostbusters Description of subject: Ghostbusters is a 1984 supernatural comedy film about a team of eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters film series
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters film series
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters (2016 film)
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters franchise
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters franchise
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters (song)
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters film series
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters franchise
this entity surface form:
film "Ghostbusters"
subject surface form:
László Kovács
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters (1984 film)
subject surface form:
Harold Ramis
subject surface form:
Harold Ramis
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters (1984 film)
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters franchise
subject surface form:
Harold Ramis
this entity surface form:
Ghostbusters (1984 film)