Hard Sell
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Hard Sell is a 2016 independent comedy-drama film about a prep-school student who teams up with a stripper to raise money for his sick mother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hard Sell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10143608 — 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: Hard Sell Context triple: [Skyler Gisondo, hasActedIn, Hard Sell]
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A.
Hard Bargain
"Hard Bargain" is a 2011 studio album by American singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris that blends country, folk, and Americana influences with reflective, autobiographical songwriting.
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B.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is a 2009 American comedy film about a fast-talking used-car liquidator brought in to save a failing dealership over a Fourth of July sales weekend.
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C.
Rock Hard
Rock Hard is an early Beastie Boys single that preceded their breakthrough debut album Licensed to Ill.
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D.
Hard Promises
Hard Promises is a 1991 romantic comedy-drama film starring William Petersen as a free-spirited man who returns home to stop his wife’s impending remarriage.
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E.
Hard Promises
Hard Promises is a 1981 rock album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for songs like "The Waiting" and its blend of heartland rock and melodic songwriting.
- 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: Hard Sell Target entity description: Hard Sell is a 2016 independent comedy-drama film about a prep-school student who teams up with a stripper to raise money for his sick mother.
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A.
Hard Bargain
"Hard Bargain" is a 2011 studio album by American singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris that blends country, folk, and Americana influences with reflective, autobiographical songwriting.
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B.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is a 2009 American comedy film about a fast-talking used-car liquidator brought in to save a failing dealership over a Fourth of July sales weekend.
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C.
Rock Hard
Rock Hard is an early Beastie Boys single that preceded their breakthrough debut album Licensed to Ill.
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D.
Hard Promises
Hard Promises is a 1991 romantic comedy-drama film starring William Petersen as a free-spirited man who returns home to stop his wife’s impending remarriage.
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E.
Hard Promises
Hard Promises is a 1981 rock album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, known for songs like "The Waiting" and its blend of heartland rock and melodic songwriting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gavin Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Sean Nalaboff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Momentum Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Harrison Atkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Bo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorna Buchanan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Some deals can’t be negotiated. ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hardy Buchanan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | prep-school student ⓘ |
| musicBy | Andrew Hollander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A prep-school student teams up with a stripper to raise money for his sick mother. ⓘ |
| producer |
Brice Dal Farra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Claude Dal Farra NERFINISHED ⓘ Jared Ian Goldman NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Munsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BCDF Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mister Smith Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2016-05-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Sean Nalaboff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Long Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Amy Rutberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emory Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ Garret Dillahunt NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannah Marks NERFINISHED ⓘ Katrina Bowden NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Kilner NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristin Chenoweth NERFINISHED ⓘ Skyler Gisondo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Sean Nalaboff 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: Hard Sell Description of subject: Hard Sell is a 2016 independent comedy-drama film about a prep-school student who teams up with a stripper to raise money for his sick mother.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.