Running with Scissors
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Running with Scissors is a darkly comic memoir by Augusten Burroughs, later adapted into a film, that chronicles his chaotic and unconventional childhood.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Running with Scissors canonical | 5 |
| Running with Scissors (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983064 — 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: Running with Scissors Context triple: [Jill Clayburgh, notableWork, Running with Scissors]
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A.
Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors is a 1999 comedy album by "Weird Al" Yankovic featuring parodies of popular songs and humorous original tracks.
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B.
The Cut
The Cut is a digital publication and vertical of New York Magazine that focuses on fashion, culture, politics, and women’s issues.
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C.
The Cut
The Cut is a street in the Waterloo area of London known for its theatres, restaurants, and proximity to major transport links.
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D.
The Cut
The Cut is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Fatih Akin that follows an Armenian man's search for his daughters in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide.
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E.
In the Cut
In the Cut is a 2003 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Jane Campion, known for its gritty exploration of female sexuality and urban violence in contemporary New York City.
- 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: Running with Scissors Target entity description: Running with Scissors is a darkly comic memoir by Augusten Burroughs, later adapted into a film, that chronicles his chaotic and unconventional childhood.
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A.
Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors is a 1999 comedy album by "Weird Al" Yankovic featuring parodies of popular songs and humorous original tracks.
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B.
The Cut
The Cut is a digital publication and vertical of New York Magazine that focuses on fashion, culture, politics, and women’s issues.
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C.
The Cut
The Cut is a street in the Waterloo area of London known for its theatres, restaurants, and proximity to major transport links.
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D.
The Cut
The Cut is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Fatih Akin that follows an Armenian man's search for his daughters in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide.
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E.
In the Cut
In the Cut is a 2003 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Jane Campion, known for its gritty exploration of female sexuality and urban violence in contemporary New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Running with Scissors Description of subject: Running with Scissors is a darkly comic memoir by Augusten Burroughs, later adapted into a film, that chronicles his chaotic and unconventional childhood.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.