The Motel
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The Motel is a 2005 independent coming-of-age drama film that follows a 13-year-old boy living and working at his family's seedy roadside motel, featuring Sung Kang in a key supporting role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Motel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11339527 — 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 Motel Context triple: [Sung Kang, appearedIn, The Motel]
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A.
Home Motel
"Home Motel" is a track featured on the album *Teatro* by Willie Nelson.
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B.
Crossroads Motel
Crossroads Motel is a fictional roadside lodging establishment that serves as the central location for much of the drama and character interaction in the British soap opera "Crossroads."
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C.
New West Motel
New West Motel is an alternative country/rock album by the Seattle-based band The Walkabouts, noted for its atmospheric, Americana-infused sound.
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D.
Motel Hell
Motel Hell is a 1980 American horror-comedy cult film about a deranged farmer who turns his victims into secret ingredients for his famous smoked meats.
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E.
Moonlight Motel
Moonlight Motel is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his album "Western Stars."
- 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 Motel Target entity description: The Motel is a 2005 independent coming-of-age drama film that follows a 13-year-old boy living and working at his family's seedy roadside motel, featuring Sung Kang in a key supporting role.
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A.
Home Motel
"Home Motel" is a track featured on the album *Teatro* by Willie Nelson.
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B.
Crossroads Motel
Crossroads Motel is a fictional roadside lodging establishment that serves as the central location for much of the drama and character interaction in the British soap opera "Crossroads."
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C.
New West Motel
New West Motel is an alternative country/rock album by the Seattle-based band The Walkabouts, noted for its atmospheric, Americana-infused sound.
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D.
Motel Hell
Motel Hell is a 1980 American horror-comedy cult film about a deranged farmer who turns his victims into secret ingredients for his famous smoked meats.
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E.
Moonlight Motel
Moonlight Motel is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his album "Western Stars."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coming-of-age film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Humanitas Prize (Sundance Film Category)
NERFINISHED
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NHK International Filmmakers Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Waylaid
NERFINISHED
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novel by Ed Lin ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Lance Acord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| director | Michael Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Palm Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hsu Jen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresActor |
Chin Han
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jade Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Chyau NERFINISHED ⓘ Judy Ung NERFINISHED ⓘ Samantha Futerman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sung Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalScreening | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDebutOf | Jeffrey Chyau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age drama
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| hasSupportingRole | Sung Kang as Sam Kim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ernest Chin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Craig Wedren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Asian American adolescence ⓘ |
| notableFor | Asian American representation in independent cinema ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | Chinese American family ⓘ |
| producer | Gina Kwon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | KangKang Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | 13 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2005 ⓘ |
| releaseType | limited theatrical release ⓘ |
| reviewAggregator | Rotten Tomatoes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 75 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Kang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
roadside motel
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suburban America ⓘ |
| theme |
family relationships
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identity ⓘ loneliness ⓘ sexual awakening ⓘ |
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: The Motel Description of subject: The Motel is a 2005 independent coming-of-age drama film that follows a 13-year-old boy living and working at his family's seedy roadside motel, featuring Sung Kang in a key supporting role.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.