The Waterboy
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The Waterboy is a 1998 sports comedy film starring Adam Sandler as a socially awkward college football team water boy who discovers a talent for tackling.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Waterboy canonical | 23 |
| The Waterboy (1998 film) | 1 |
| The Waterboy universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T763364 — 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 Waterboy Context triple: [Adam Sandler, notableWork, The Waterboy]
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A.
A Night at the Roxbury
A Night at the Roxbury is a 1998 American comedy film starring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as socially awkward club-going brothers, based on their recurring sketch characters from Saturday Night Live.
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B.
Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water is a 2006 fantasy thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a mysterious water nymph discovered in a Philadelphia apartment complex’s pool.
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C.
King Baby
King Baby is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, known for its observational humor about everyday life, food, and parenting.
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D.
White Chicks
White Chicks is a 2004 American comedy film in which two Black FBI agents go undercover as white socialite sisters, known for its over-the-top humor and cultural impact.
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E.
Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film, loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, that follows wealthy Los Angeles teenagers spiraling into drug addiction and moral decay.
- 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 Waterboy Target entity description: The Waterboy is a 1998 sports comedy film starring Adam Sandler as a socially awkward college football team water boy who discovers a talent for tackling.
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A.
A Night at the Roxbury
A Night at the Roxbury is a 1998 American comedy film starring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan as socially awkward club-going brothers, based on their recurring sketch characters from Saturday Night Live.
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B.
Lady in the Water
Lady in the Water is a 2006 fantasy thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a mysterious water nymph discovered in a Philadelphia apartment complex’s pool.
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C.
King Baby
King Baby is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, known for its observational humor about everyday life, food, and parenting.
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D.
White Chicks
White Chicks is a 2004 American comedy film in which two Black FBI agents go undercover as white socialite sisters, known for its over-the-top humor and cultural impact.
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E.
Less Than Zero
Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film, loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, that follows wealthy Los Angeles teenagers spiraling into drug addiction and moral decay.
- 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: The Waterboy Description of subject: The Waterboy is a 1998 sports comedy film starring Adam Sandler as a socially awkward college football team water boy who discovers a talent for tackling.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Clint Howard
this entity surface form:
The Waterboy (1998 film)
this entity surface form:
The Waterboy universe