Happy Gilmore
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Happy Gilmore is a 1996 sports comedy film about a hot-tempered failed hockey player who discovers a talent for golf, starring Adam Sandler in one of his signature roles.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Happy Gilmore canonical | 34 |
| Happy Gilmore (1996 film) | 2 |
| Happy Gilmore (character) | 2 |
| Happy Gilmore universe | 2 |
| Happy Gilmore franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763363 — 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: Happy Gilmore Context triple: [Adam Sandler, notableWork, Happy Gilmore]
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A.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 sports comedy film that satirizes NASCAR culture through the story of an overconfident race car driver’s fall and redemption.
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B.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
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C.
What About Bob?
What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
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D.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
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E.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
- 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: Happy Gilmore Target entity description: Happy Gilmore is a 1996 sports comedy film about a hot-tempered failed hockey player who discovers a talent for golf, starring Adam Sandler in one of his signature roles.
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A.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 sports comedy film that satirizes NASCAR culture through the story of an overconfident race car driver’s fall and redemption.
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B.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
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C.
What About Bob?
What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
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D.
City Slickers
City Slickers is a 1991 comedy film about a group of middle-aged friends who join a cattle drive to confront their midlife crises, starring Billy Crystal.
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E.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
- 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: Happy Gilmore Description of subject: Happy Gilmore is a 1996 sports comedy film about a hot-tempered failed hockey player who discovers a talent for golf, starring Adam Sandler in one of his signature roles.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carl Weathers
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore (character)
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore universe
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore (character)
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore franchise
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore (1996 film)
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore universe
this entity surface form:
Happy Gilmore (1996 film)