The Graduate
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The Graduate is a 1963 novel by Charles Webb that became widely known through its iconic 1967 film adaptation about a disillusioned young man entangled in an affair with an older woman.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Graduate canonical | 8 |
| The Graduate (1963 novel) | 1 |
| The Graduate (novel) | 1 |
| The Graduate franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10371344 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Graduate Context triple: [Charles Webb, notableWork, The Graduate]
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The Graduate
The Graduate is a landmark 1967 American film directed by Mike Nichols, celebrated for its satirical take on suburban malaise, iconic performances, and influential use of a Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack.
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The Graduate School
The Graduate School is Augusta University's central unit overseeing advanced degree programs and graduate education across its various colleges and disciplines.
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The Graduate School
The Graduate School at Northwestern University is the central administrative unit overseeing the university’s graduate education, including its master’s and doctoral programs across diverse disciplines.
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The Graduate School
The Graduate School is James Madison University's division dedicated to overseeing and supporting its graduate-level academic programs and research.
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The Apartment
The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, celebrated for its blend of sharp satire and poignant romance and for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- 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 Graduate Target entity description: The Graduate is a 1963 novel by Charles Webb that became widely known through its iconic 1967 film adaptation about a disillusioned young man entangled in an affair with an older woman.
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A.
The Graduate
The Graduate is a landmark 1967 American film directed by Mike Nichols, celebrated for its satirical take on suburban malaise, iconic performances, and influential use of a Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack.
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B.
The Graduate School
The Graduate School is Augusta University's central unit overseeing advanced degree programs and graduate education across its various colleges and disciplines.
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C.
The Graduate School
The Graduate School at Northwestern University is the central administrative unit overseeing the university’s graduate education, including its master’s and doctoral programs across diverse disciplines.
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D.
The Graduate School
The Graduate School is James Madison University's division dedicated to overseeing and supporting its graduate-level academic programs and research.
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E.
The Apartment
The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, celebrated for its blend of sharp satire and poignant romance and for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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 Graduate Description of subject: The Graduate is a 1963 novel by Charles Webb that became widely known through its iconic 1967 film adaptation about a disillusioned young man entangled in an affair with an older woman.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.