Big Business
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Big Business is a 1988 comedy film starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler as mismatched twins separated at birth who collide in a series of farcical corporate and small-town mix-ups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Big Business canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11121672 — 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)
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Target entity: Big Business Context triple: [Lily Tomlin, notableWork, Big Business]
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A.
Big Business
Big Business is a classic 1929 silent short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, renowned for its escalating slapstick chaos as the duo sell Christmas trees door-to-door.
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B.
The Big Money
The Big Money is a 1936 novel by John Dos Passos, best known as the third volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, which critiques American capitalism and society in the early 20th century through experimental narrative techniques.
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C.
The Big Money
The Big Money is a 1958 British crime comedy film in which Jennifer Jayne appears alongside Ian Carmichael and Belinda Lee.
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D.
1 Wall Street
1 Wall Street is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City's Financial District, historically serving as a major banking headquarters and now converted into luxury residences.
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E.
The Millionaire
The Millionaire is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss as a retired businessman who secretly returns to work, produced by Warner Bros. and associated with filmmaker Bryan Foy.
- 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: Big Business Target entity description: Big Business is a 1988 comedy film starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler as mismatched twins separated at birth who collide in a series of farcical corporate and small-town mix-ups.
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A.
Big Business
Big Business is a classic 1929 silent short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, renowned for its escalating slapstick chaos as the duo sell Christmas trees door-to-door.
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B.
The Big Money
The Big Money is a 1936 novel by John Dos Passos, best known as the third volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, which critiques American capitalism and society in the early 20th century through experimental narrative techniques.
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C.
The Big Money
The Big Money is a 1958 British crime comedy film in which Jennifer Jayne appears alongside Ian Carmichael and Belinda Lee.
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D.
1 Wall Street
1 Wall Street is a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City's Financial District, historically serving as a major banking headquarters and now converted into luxury residences.
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E.
The Millionaire
The Millionaire is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss as a retired businessman who secretly returns to work, produced by Warner Bros. and associated with filmmaker Bryan Foy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Comedy of Errors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bette Midler
NERFINISHED
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Edward Herrmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ Lily Tomlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Gross NERFINISHED ⓘ Michele Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Gaul NERFINISHED ⓘ Seth Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Dean Cundey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Jim Abrahams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Buena Vista Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Jane Kurson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterRelationship | twin sisters separated at birth ⓘ |
| featuresPerformance |
Bette Midler in dual roles
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Lily Tomlin in dual roles ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corporate satire
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mistaken identity ⓘ small-town versus big-city values ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | The Comedy of Errors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Rose Ratliff
NERFINISHED
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Rose Shelton NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadie Ratliff NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadie Shelton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Lee Holdridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | multiple roles played by same actor ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two sets of mismatched twins separated at birth meet years later, causing farcical confusion between a rural town and a big corporation. ⓘ |
| producer |
Dudi Appleton
NERFINISHED
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Roger Birnbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 97 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Dori Pierson
NERFINISHED
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Marc Reid Rubel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City
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rural town in West Virginia ⓘ |
| starring |
Bette Midler
NERFINISHED
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Lily Tomlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1980s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Big Business Description of subject: Big Business is a 1988 comedy film starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler as mismatched twins separated at birth who collide in a series of farcical corporate and small-town mix-ups.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.