Things Are Tough All Over
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Things Are Tough All Over is a 1982 stoner comedy film starring the duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, following their misadventures as struggling musicians and limo drivers entangled in a money-smuggling scheme.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Things Are Tough All Over canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9996800 — 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: Things Are Tough All Over Context triple: [Tommy Chong, notableWork, Things Are Tough All Over]
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A.
It’s a Hard Life
"It’s a Hard Life" is a 1984 rock ballad by the British band Queen, notable for Freddie Mercury’s operatic vocal style and its theatrical, opera-inspired music video.
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B.
Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us
"Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us" is a melancholic, introspective song by British singer-songwriter Fink, known for its sparse acoustic arrangement and emotionally resonant lyrics.
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C.
That Stubborn Kinda Fellow
That Stubborn Kinda Fellow is a 1962 Motown soul album by Marvin Gaye that helped establish him as a rising star with hits like "Stubborn Kind of Fellow."
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D.
It Ain't Easy
"It Ain't Easy" is a reflective, introspective track by 2Pac that explores the hardships and moral struggles of life in the streets.
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E.
Trouble Don’t Last Always
"Trouble Don’t Last Always" is a special standalone episode of the HBO drama series *Euphoria* that focuses on Rue’s emotional struggles in the aftermath of the Season 1 finale.
- 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: Things Are Tough All Over Target entity description: Things Are Tough All Over is a 1982 stoner comedy film starring the duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, following their misadventures as struggling musicians and limo drivers entangled in a money-smuggling scheme.
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A.
It’s a Hard Life
"It’s a Hard Life" is a 1984 rock ballad by the British band Queen, notable for Freddie Mercury’s operatic vocal style and its theatrical, opera-inspired music video.
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B.
Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us
"Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us" is a melancholic, introspective song by British singer-songwriter Fink, known for its sparse acoustic arrangement and emotionally resonant lyrics.
-
C.
That Stubborn Kinda Fellow
That Stubborn Kinda Fellow is a 1962 Motown soul album by Marvin Gaye that helped establish him as a rising star with hits like "Stubborn Kind of Fellow."
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D.
It Ain't Easy
"It Ain't Easy" is a reflective, introspective track by 2Pac that explores the hardships and moral struggles of life in the streets.
-
E.
Trouble Don’t Last Always
"Trouble Don’t Last Always" is a special standalone episode of the HBO drama series *Euphoria* that focuses on Rue’s emotional struggles in the aftermath of the Season 1 finale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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stoner comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cheech & Chong characters ⓘ |
| castMember |
Cheech Marin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tommy Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | James Pergola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Dick Lowry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Scott Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Las Vegas, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Cheech and Chong's Next Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
stoner film ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Las Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
buddy comedy
ⓘ
drug culture ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Cheech
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Snow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Cheech & Chong film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two struggling musicians and limo drivers become entangled in a money-smuggling scheme involving hidden cash in a limousine. ⓘ |
| producer |
Howard Brown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter MacGregor-Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1982-04-09 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Cheech Marin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Orr NERFINISHED ⓘ Randall Carver NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Cheech Marin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tommy Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Things Are Tough All Over NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Things Are Tough All Over Description of subject: Things Are Tough All Over is a 1982 stoner comedy film starring the duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, following their misadventures as struggling musicians and limo drivers entangled in a money-smuggling scheme.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.