The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a 1947 comedy film, loosely based on James Thurber's short story, about a mild-mannered man who escapes his humdrum life through vivid heroic daydreams.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10861265 — 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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty Context triple: [Virginia Mayo, notableWork, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 adventure-comedy film about a daydreaming photo editor who embarks on a real-life global journey, directed by and starring Ben Stiller.
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The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Connecticut, reflecting its reputation for conservatism and stable customs.
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The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener that follows a recently retired man in suburban Connecticut as he grapples with the fallout of abruptly abandoning his comfortable life.
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Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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Big Eyes
Big Eyes is a 2014 biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of painter Margaret Keane and the legal battle over the credit for her distinctive big-eyed children paintings.
- 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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty Target entity description: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a 1947 comedy film, loosely based on James Thurber's short story, about a mild-mannered man who escapes his humdrum life through vivid heroic daydreams.
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A.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 adventure-comedy film about a daydreaming photo editor who embarks on a real-life global journey, directed by and starring Ben Stiller.
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B.
The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Connecticut, reflecting its reputation for conservatism and stable customs.
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C.
The Land of Steady Habits
The Land of Steady Habits is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener that follows a recently retired man in suburban Connecticut as he grapples with the fallout of abruptly abandoning his comfortable life.
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D.
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 drama film, based on Richard Yates's novel, that explores the disintegration of a suburban 1950s marriage and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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E.
Big Eyes
Big Eyes is a 2014 biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of painter Margaret Keane and the legal battle over the credit for her distinctive big-eyed children paintings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty Description of subject: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a 1947 comedy film, loosely based on James Thurber's short story, about a mild-mannered man who escapes his humdrum life through vivid heroic daydreams.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.