Drive-In
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"Drive-In" is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau that humorously follows the chaotic events surrounding a small-town Texas drive-in theater on a busy Friday night.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drive-In canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9720856 — 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: Drive-In Context triple: [Rod Amateau, notableWork, Drive-In]
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A.
Autopia
Autopia is a long-running Disneyland attraction where guests drive small gas-powered cars along a guided roadway, evoking a futuristic vision of freeway travel.
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B.
The Driver
The Driver is a 1978 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill, centered on a taciturn, highly skilled getaway driver involved in a tense cat-and-mouse game with a relentless detective.
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C.
The Driver
The Driver is the laconic, unnamed street racer portrayed by James Taylor in the 1971 cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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D.
Detours
"Detours" is a 2008 studio album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow that blends rock, pop, and folk influences with politically and personally charged lyrics.
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E.
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Kid Auto Races at Venice is a 1914 silent comedy short film notable for introducing Charlie Chaplin’s iconic Tramp character to audiences.
- 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: Drive-In Target entity description: "Drive-In" is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau that humorously follows the chaotic events surrounding a small-town Texas drive-in theater on a busy Friday night.
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A.
Autopia
Autopia is a long-running Disneyland attraction where guests drive small gas-powered cars along a guided roadway, evoking a futuristic vision of freeway travel.
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B.
The Driver
The Driver is the laconic, unnamed street racer portrayed by James Taylor in the 1971 cult road movie "Two-Lane Blacktop."
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C.
The Driver
The Driver is a 1978 neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Walter Hill, centered on a taciturn, highly skilled getaway driver involved in a tense cat-and-mouse game with a relentless detective.
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D.
Detours
"Detours" is a 2008 studio album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow that blends rock, pop, and folk influences with politically and personally charged lyrics.
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E.
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Kid Auto Races at Venice is a 1914 silent comedy short film notable for introducing Charlie Chaplin’s iconic Tramp character to audiences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States film industry ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gene Polito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Rod Amateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael A. Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle |
broad comedy
ⓘ
satire of small-town life ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFocus | ensemble cast of small-town characters at a drive-in theater ⓘ |
| hasTheatricalRelease | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Sammy Fain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | single night events at a drive-in theater ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film follows chaotic and humorous events at a small-town Texas drive-in theater on a busy Friday night. ⓘ |
| producer | Lou Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-03-12 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bob Peete NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | drive-in theater ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Barbara Cason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bill McCutcheon NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Lee Cavagnaro NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Morshower NERFINISHED ⓘ Ivor Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisa Lemole NERFINISHED ⓘ Trey Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1970s ⓘ |
| title | Drive-In ⓘ |
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: Drive-In Description of subject: "Drive-In" is a 1976 American comedy film directed by Rod Amateau that humorously follows the chaotic events surrounding a small-town Texas drive-in theater on a busy Friday night.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.