Breaking Away (1979 film)
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Breaking Away (1979 film) is a 1979 coming-of-age sports comedy-drama about a group of working-class friends in Indiana, centered on a bicycle-obsessed teen confronting class divisions and personal identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Breaking Away (1979 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9340840 — 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: Breaking Away (1979 film) Context triple: [Jackie Earle Haley, workedOn, Breaking Away (1979 film)]
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A.
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 coming-of-age teen comedy film directed by John Hughes that follows a girl whose sixteenth birthday is overshadowed by her sister’s wedding and family chaos.
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B.
A Break Away!
A Break Away! is a famous 1891 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts that vividly depicts a mob of sheep being driven to water during a drought, and is considered a landmark work of Australian Impressionism.
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C.
Night Moves
"Night Moves" is a 1976 rock album by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band that became his commercial breakthrough and features the nostalgic title track often regarded as one of his signature songs.
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D.
Night Moves
Night Moves is a 1975 neo-noir mystery film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Gene Hackman as a private detective drawn into a complex and morally ambiguous case.
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E.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 coming-of-age teen comedy film, based on Cameron Crowe’s book, that became a cult classic and helped launch the careers of several young actors including Sean Penn.
- 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: Breaking Away (1979 film) Target entity description: Breaking Away (1979 film) is a 1979 coming-of-age sports comedy-drama about a group of working-class friends in Indiana, centered on a bicycle-obsessed teen confronting class divisions and personal identity.
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A.
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 coming-of-age teen comedy film directed by John Hughes that follows a girl whose sixteenth birthday is overshadowed by her sister’s wedding and family chaos.
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B.
A Break Away!
A Break Away! is a famous 1891 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts that vividly depicts a mob of sheep being driven to water during a drought, and is considered a landmark work of Australian Impressionism.
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C.
Night Moves
"Night Moves" is a 1976 rock album by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band that became his commercial breakthrough and features the nostalgic title track often regarded as one of his signature songs.
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D.
Night Moves
Night Moves is a 1975 neo-noir mystery film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Gene Hackman as a private detective drawn into a complex and morally ambiguous case.
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E.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 coming-of-age teen comedy film, based on Cameron Crowe’s book, that became a cult classic and helped launch the careers of several young actors including Sean Penn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Breaking Away (1979 film) Description of subject: Breaking Away (1979 film) is a 1979 coming-of-age sports comedy-drama about a group of working-class friends in Indiana, centered on a bicycle-obsessed teen confronting class divisions and personal identity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.