Mascots
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Mascots is a 2016 mockumentary comedy film directed by Christopher Guest that follows the quirky competitors in a global mascot competition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mascots canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9394889 — 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)
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Target entity: Mascots Context triple: [Zach Woods, notableWork, Mascots]
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A.
Mascot
Mascot is a small unincorporated community in eastern Knox County, Tennessee, known historically for its ties to mining and quarry operations.
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B.
Mascot
Mascot is an inner-southern suburb of Sydney, Australia, best known for being home to the city's major international airport.
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C.
MASCOT
MASCOT is a small German-French-built lander that accompanied Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to explore and study the surface of asteroid Ryugu.
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D.
Olympic Games mascots
Olympic Games mascots are specially designed characters that personify the spirit, culture, and themes of each edition of the Olympic Games and are used for promotion, fan engagement, and merchandising.
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E.
College mascots in the United States
College mascots in the United States are symbolic figures—often animals, characters, or culturally significant icons—used by colleges and universities to represent school spirit, identity, and athletic teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Mascots Target entity description: Mascots is a 2016 mockumentary comedy film directed by Christopher Guest that follows the quirky competitors in a global mascot competition.
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A.
Mascot
Mascot is an inner-southern suburb of Sydney, Australia, best known for being home to the city's major international airport.
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B.
Mascot
Mascot is a small unincorporated community in eastern Knox County, Tennessee, known historically for its ties to mining and quarry operations.
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C.
MASCOT
MASCOT is a small German-French-built lander that accompanied Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to explore and study the surface of asteroid Ryugu.
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D.
Olympic Games mascots
Olympic Games mascots are specially designed characters that personify the spirit, culture, and themes of each edition of the Olympic Games and are used for promotion, fan engagement, and merchandising.
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E.
College mascots in the United States
College mascots in the United States are symbolic figures—often animals, characters, or culturally significant icons—used by colleges and universities to represent school spirit, identity, and athletic teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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mockumentary film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Russ T. Alsobrook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Christopher Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jamie Gross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresStyle | improvisational comedy ⓘ |
| follows |
A Mighty Wind
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Best in Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
mockumentary ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Bob Balaban
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brad Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Gee NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris O'Dowd NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Ed Begley Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Willard NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Lynch NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennifer Coolidge NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Piddock NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Rash NERFINISHED ⓘ John Michael Higgins NERFINISHED ⓘ Kerry Godliman NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Blasucci NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ Mo Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Parker Posey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Williamson NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Yeagley NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Hardcastle NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ Zach Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | CJ Vanston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Christopher Guest mockumentary cycle ⓘ |
| platform | Netflix ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film follows eccentric competitors participating in a global mascot competition. ⓘ |
| producer | Karen Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | October 13, 2016 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| setting | global mascot competition ⓘ |
| writer |
Christopher Guest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim Piddock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mascots Description of subject: Mascots is a 2016 mockumentary comedy film directed by Christopher Guest that follows the quirky competitors in a global mascot competition.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.