About Schmidt (film)
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About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson as a recently retired man on a soul-searching road trip.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| About Schmidt | 18 |
| About Schmidt (film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11817077 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: About Schmidt (film) Context triple: [Rachael Horovitz, notableWork, About Schmidt (film)]
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About Schmidt (novel)
About Schmidt (novel) is a 1996 satirical novel by Louis Begley that follows a recently retired New York lawyer confronting personal upheaval, identity, and moral compromise.
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The Schott
The Schott is the popular nickname for Value City Arena, the primary indoor sports and entertainment venue at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
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Mann im Matsch
Mann im Matsch is a sculptural work by German artist Thomas Schütte that characteristically explores the human figure in a vulnerable, existential state.
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The Tourist
The Tourist is a 2010 romantic thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, involving mistaken identity and international intrigue across Paris and Venice.
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The Tourist
"The Tourist" is a melancholic, piano-driven closing track by Radiohead that reflects on modern life's frantic pace and the need to slow down.
- 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: About Schmidt (film) Target entity description: About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson as a recently retired man on a soul-searching road trip.
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A.
About Schmidt (novel)
About Schmidt (novel) is a 1996 satirical novel by Louis Begley that follows a recently retired New York lawyer confronting personal upheaval, identity, and moral compromise.
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B.
The Schott
The Schott is the popular nickname for Value City Arena, the primary indoor sports and entertainment venue at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
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C.
Mann im Matsch
Mann im Matsch is a sculptural work by German artist Thomas Schütte that characteristically explores the human figure in a vulnerable, existential state.
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D.
The Tourist
"The Tourist" is a melancholic, piano-driven closing track by Radiohead that reflects on modern life's frantic pace and the need to slow down.
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E.
The Tourist
The Tourist is a 2010 romantic thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, involving mistaken identity and international intrigue across Paris and Venice.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: About Schmidt (film) Description of subject: About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson as a recently retired man on a soul-searching road trip.
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