The Descendants
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The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, in which George Clooney stars as a Hawaiian lawyer grappling with family crises and questions of legacy.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Descendants canonical | 28 |
| The Descendants (film) | 2 |
| The Descendants (2011 film) | 1 |
| The Descendants (film) universe | 1 |
| The Descendants (novel) | 1 |
| The Descendants (short story that became novel) | 1 |
| film The Descendants (2011) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T657038 — 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 Descendants Context triple: [George Clooney, notableWork, The Descendants]
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A.
The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 comedic crime caper film written and directed by Rian Johnson, following two con-artist brothers as they attempt one last elaborate swindle involving an eccentric heiress.
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B.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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C.
Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers is a 2005 introspective comedy-drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch, following a lonely bachelor’s cross-country journey to reconnect with former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
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D.
Up in the Air
Up in the Air is a 2009 comedy-drama film starring George Clooney as a corporate downsizer whose constant business travel forces him to confront questions about connection, purpose, and modern work life.
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E.
Quills
Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
- 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 Descendants Target entity description: The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, in which George Clooney stars as a Hawaiian lawyer grappling with family crises and questions of legacy.
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A.
The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 comedic crime caper film written and directed by Rian Johnson, following two con-artist brothers as they attempt one last elaborate swindle involving an eccentric heiress.
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B.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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C.
Broken Flowers
Broken Flowers is a 2005 introspective comedy-drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch, following a lonely bachelor’s cross-country journey to reconnect with former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter about a possible son.
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D.
Up in the Air
Up in the Air is a 2009 comedy-drama film starring George Clooney as a corporate downsizer whose constant business travel forces him to confront questions about connection, purpose, and modern work life.
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E.
Quills
Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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 Descendants Description of subject: The Descendants is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, in which George Clooney stars as a Hawaiian lawyer grappling with family crises and questions of legacy.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (film)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (short story that became novel)
this entity surface form:
film The Descendants (2011)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (2011 film)
subject surface form:
Sid (The Descendants)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (film)
subject surface form:
Sid (The Descendants)
this entity surface form:
The Descendants (film) universe