The Big Bounce
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The Big Bounce is a 1969 crime novel by Elmore Leonard, later adapted into feature films, that follows a small-time crook drawn into a dangerous scheme in a beach-town setting.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Bounce canonical | 5 |
| The Big Bounce (novel) | 2 |
| The Big Bounce (1969 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10169732 — 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 Big Bounce Context triple: [Edward Lewis, notableWork, The Big Bounce]
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A.
The Big Bounce
The Big Bounce is a 2004 crime-comedy film based on an Elmore Leonard novel, starring Owen Wilson as a small-time crook drawn into a laid-back Hawaiian caper.
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B.
The Three Big Bangs
The Three Big Bangs is a popular science book by physicist Richard Muller that explores three major cosmic “beginnings” in the history of the universe and their implications for cosmology.
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C.
The Restless Universe
The Restless Universe is a popular science book by physicist Max Born that explains modern physics and quantum theory to a general audience in clear, accessible language.
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D.
The Big Thing
The Big Thing is a public sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, known for its bold, contemporary design and prominent placement in the city’s urban landscape.
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E.
The Secret of the Universe
The Secret of the Universe is the English title of Johannes Kepler’s 1596 work in which he proposed an early heliocentric model of the cosmos using nested Platonic solids to explain the spacing of the planets.
- 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 Big Bounce Target entity description: The Big Bounce is a 1969 crime novel by Elmore Leonard, later adapted into feature films, that follows a small-time crook drawn into a dangerous scheme in a beach-town setting.
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A.
The Big Bounce
The Big Bounce is a 2004 crime-comedy film based on an Elmore Leonard novel, starring Owen Wilson as a small-time crook drawn into a laid-back Hawaiian caper.
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B.
The Three Big Bangs
The Three Big Bangs is a popular science book by physicist Richard Muller that explores three major cosmic “beginnings” in the history of the universe and their implications for cosmology.
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C.
The Restless Universe
The Restless Universe is a popular science book by physicist Max Born that explains modern physics and quantum theory to a general audience in clear, accessible language.
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D.
The Big Thing
The Big Thing is a public sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, known for its bold, contemporary design and prominent placement in the city’s urban landscape.
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E.
The Secret of the Universe
The Secret of the Universe is the English title of Johannes Kepler’s 1596 work in which he proposed an early heliocentric model of the cosmos using nested Platonic solids to explain the spacing of the planets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear |
1969
ⓘ
2004 ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
The Big Bounce (1969 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Big Bounce
The Big Bounce (2004 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Big Bounce
|
| author | Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| filmAdaptationDirector |
Alex March
ⓘ
George Armitage ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasAdaptationGenre |
comedy crime film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Doc
ⓘ
Mr. Majestyk (early version of character type) ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Majestyk
Nancy Hayes ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtForm | illustrated cover ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | mixed to positive for novel ⓘ |
| hasFilmReception | generally negative for adaptations ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
paperback
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApproximate | 200–250 pages ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
ⓘ
deception ⓘ greed ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTimeOfAction | contemporary to time of writing ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American crime fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Ryan ⓘ |
| notableFor | first crime novel by Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCareerPhase | early crime novels of Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| plotFocus | dangerous scheme ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | small-time crook ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| publisher | Fawcett Publications ⓘ |
| setting |
Michigan
ⓘ
beach town ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1960s ⓘ |
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 Big Bounce Description of subject: The Big Bounce is a 1969 crime novel by Elmore Leonard, later adapted into feature films, that follows a small-time crook drawn into a dangerous scheme in a beach-town setting.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Big Bounce
linked to: The Big Bounce
linked to: The Big Bounce