The Main Event
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The Main Event is a 1979 romantic comedy film starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, known for its blend of boxing-themed sports comedy and romance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Main Event canonical | 6 |
| The Main Event (1979 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10081121 — 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 Main Event Context triple: [Gail Parent, notableWork, The Main Event]
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A.
Showdown
Showdown is a climactic segment or episode within "The E.N.D." that serves as a decisive confrontation or resolution point in the work’s narrative.
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B.
Showdown
Showdown is the fiercely contested Australian Football League derby between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Adelaide Crows.
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C.
Showdown
"Showdown" is a song featured on the album *In the Zone* by American pop singer Britney Spears.
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D.
The Big Brawl
The Big Brawl is a 1980 martial arts action-comedy film starring Jackie Chan in his first major Hollywood role.
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E.
Day of the Fight
Day of the Fight is a 1951 black-and-white short documentary film following boxer Walter Cartier on the day of a crucial bout, notable as Stanley Kubrick’s directorial debut.
- 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 Main Event Target entity description: The Main Event is a 1979 romantic comedy film starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, known for its blend of boxing-themed sports comedy and romance.
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A.
Showdown
Showdown is a climactic segment or episode within "The E.N.D." that serves as a decisive confrontation or resolution point in the work’s narrative.
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B.
Showdown
Showdown is the fiercely contested Australian Football League derby between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Adelaide Crows.
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C.
Showdown
"Showdown" is a song featured on the album *In the Zone* by American pop singer Britney Spears.
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D.
The Big Brawl
The Big Brawl is a 1980 martial arts action-comedy film starring Jackie Chan in his first major Hollywood role.
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E.
Day of the Fight
Day of the Fight is a 1951 black-and-white short documentary film following boxer Walter Cartier on the day of a crucial bout, notable as Stanley Kubrick’s directorial debut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossUS | approximately $42,000,000 ⓘ |
| castMember |
Barbra Streisand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chu Chu Malave NERFINISHED ⓘ Eduardo López Rojas NERFINISHED ⓘ James Gregory NERFINISHED ⓘ Patti D’Arbanville NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Sand NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan O’Neal NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitman Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | David M. Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| decadeOfRelease | 1970s ⓘ |
| director | Howard Zieff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| editedBy | Edward Warschilka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSport | boxing ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
boxing film
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ sports comedy ⓘ |
| hasPosterTagline | “A glove story.” ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Eddie “Kid Natural” Scanlon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hillary Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Masser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong | The Main Event/Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A perfume executive loses her assets and tries to recoup them by managing a washed-up boxer she owns in a contract, leading to a mix of boxing hijinks and romance. ⓘ |
| producer |
Barbra Streisand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jon Peters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Rastar Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1979-06-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 104 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Andrew Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gail Parent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Barbra Streisand
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ryan O’Neal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Andrew Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gail Parent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeSongPerformer | Barbra Streisand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Main Event 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: The Main Event Description of subject: The Main Event is a 1979 romantic comedy film starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, known for its blend of boxing-themed sports comedy and romance.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Main Event (1979 film)