Simon
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Simon is a 1980 satirical science-fiction comedy film written and directed by Marshall Brickman, centered on a psychology professor who is tricked into believing he is an alien.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10721416 — 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: Simon Context triple: [Marshall Brickman, notableWork, Simon]
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A.
Simon
Simon is the given name of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., a U.S. Army lieutenant general who was killed in action while commanding forces during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
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B.
Simon
Simon is a common surname of English and Jewish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, business, arts, and sciences.
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C.
Simon
Simon is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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Simon
Simon is the central character in Ang Lee's 1993 film "The Wedding Banquet," a Taiwanese American man who enters a sham marriage to appease his traditional parents while secretly living with his male partner in New York.
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E.
Simon
Simon is the young, initially timid but ultimately heroic protagonist of the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, known for piloting powerful mecha and embodying themes of growth and determination.
- 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: Simon Target entity description: Simon is a 1980 satirical science-fiction comedy film written and directed by Marshall Brickman, centered on a psychology professor who is tricked into believing he is an alien.
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Simon
Simon is a sleazy used-car salesman and comic-relief character in the action-comedy film "True Lies," who pretends to be a secret agent to seduce women.
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B.
Simon
Simon is the central character in Ang Lee's 1993 film "The Wedding Banquet," a Taiwanese American man who enters a sham marriage to appease his traditional parents while secretly living with his male partner in New York.
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C.
Simon
Simon is a common surname of English and Jewish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, business, arts, and sciences.
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D.
Simon
Simon is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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E.
Simon
Simon is the young, initially timid but ultimately heroic protagonist of the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, known for piloting powerful mecha and embodying themes of growth and determination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| basedInGenreTradition | American science fiction comedy films ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Marshall Brickman ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasTheme |
deception
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identity ⓘ media manipulation ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Simon Mendelssohn ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | psychology professor tricked into believing he is an alien ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980s American films ⓘ |
| portrays |
academic life
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mass media ⓘ scientific experimentation ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1980 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Marshall Brickman ⓘ |
| workOfCreator | Marshall Brickman ⓘ |
| writer | Marshall Brickman ⓘ |
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: Simon Description of subject: Simon is a 1980 satirical science-fiction comedy film written and directed by Marshall Brickman, centered on a psychology professor who is tricked into believing he is an alien.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.