Heroes
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"Heroes" is a 1977 American drama film starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field, with Malcolm McDowell in a supporting role, about a troubled Vietnam War veteran searching for purpose after returning home.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heroes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10281634 — 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: Heroes Context triple: [Malcolm McDowell, notableWork, Heroes]
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Heroes
"Heroes" is a 1977 art rock song by David Bowie, renowned for its soaring, emotive sound and status as one of his most iconic and influential works.
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B.
Heroes
Heroes is a non-fiction book by journalist John Pilger that critically examines political power, media complicity, and the individuals who resist oppression around the world.
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C.
Heroes
Heroes is an American science fiction television series that follows ordinary people who discover they have extraordinary superhuman abilities and become entangled in a larger, interconnected destiny.
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D.
Heroes
"Heroes" is a rock cover of David Bowie's iconic anthem, performed by the supergroup Hollywood Vampires.
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Heroes
"Heroes" is a stage play best known in English for its adaptation by Tom Stoppard of Gérald Sibleyras’s French comedy about three World War I veterans in a retirement home.
- 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: Heroes Target entity description: "Heroes" is a 1977 American drama film starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field, with Malcolm McDowell in a supporting role, about a troubled Vietnam War veteran searching for purpose after returning home.
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A.
Heroes
Heroes is a non-fiction book by journalist John Pilger that critically examines political power, media complicity, and the individuals who resist oppression around the world.
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B.
Heroes
Heroes is an American science fiction television series that follows ordinary people who discover they have extraordinary superhuman abilities and become entangled in a larger, interconnected destiny.
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C.
Heroes
"Heroes" is a rock cover of David Bowie's iconic anthem, performed by the supergroup Hollywood Vampires.
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D.
Heroes
"Heroes" is a 1977 art rock song by David Bowie, renowned for its soaring, emotive sound and status as one of his most iconic and influential works.
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E.
Heroes
"Heroes" is a stage play best known in English for its adaptation by Tom Stoppard of Gérald Sibleyras’s French comedy about three World War I veterans in a retirement home.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Damien Leake
NERFINISHED
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Dennis Burkley NERFINISHED ⓘ Harrison Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ Hector Elias NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Korkes NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Haynes NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Cavanaugh NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Field NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ Val Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy |
Carol Bell – Sally Field
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Dunne – Henry Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Boyd – Harrison Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur J. Ornitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Jeremy Paul Kagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editedBy | Patrick Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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romantic drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Dunne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jack Nitzsche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early dramatic film role for Harrison Ford after Star Wars success ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A troubled Vietnam War veteran travels across the United States searching for purpose and to start a worm farm with his war buddies. ⓘ |
| producer | Stephen Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977-11-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 112 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post–Vietnam War era ⓘ |
| starring |
Harrison Ford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | James Carabatsos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Vietnam War veterans
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post-traumatic stress ⓘ |
| title | Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | James Carabatsos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Heroes Description of subject: "Heroes" is a 1977 American drama film starring Henry Winkler and Sally Field, with Malcolm McDowell in a supporting role, about a troubled Vietnam War veteran searching for purpose after returning home.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Stephen Tobolowsky