Cocktail (novel)
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"Cocktail (novel)" is a 1984 book by Heywood Gould that follows a charismatic young bartender whose ambition and flair for mixing drinks lead him into a world of nightlife, romance, and moral compromise, and it later served as the basis for the 1988 film starring Tom Cruise.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cocktail (film) | 2 |
| Cocktail (1988 film) | 1 |
| Cocktail (film series/fictional universe) | 1 |
| Cocktail (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12877366 — 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: Cocktail (novel) Context triple: [Cocktail, basedOn, Cocktail (novel)]
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A.
Cocktail Time
"Cocktail Time" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the mischievous Earl of Ickenham (Uncle Fred) as he orchestrates romantic entanglements and social chaos in his characteristic lighthearted style.
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B.
Cradle of the Daiquiri
Cradle of the Daiquiri is the famed nickname of Havana’s historic El Floridita bar, celebrated worldwide as the birthplace and iconic home of the classic daiquiri cocktail.
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C.
The Great Intoxication
"The Great Intoxication" is a song by the band Feelings, likely characterized by emotionally charged lyrics and a vivid, immersive atmosphere.
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D.
Bartender's Blues
"Bartender's Blues" is a country song best known from George Jones’s 1978 recording, portraying the melancholy life and emotional struggles of a bartender.
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E.
Los borrachos
Los borrachos is a celebrated early 17th-century painting by Diego Velázquez depicting the Roman god Bacchus carousing with a group of drunkards in a naturalistic, earthy style.
- 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: Cocktail (novel) Target entity description: "Cocktail (novel)" is a 1984 book by Heywood Gould that follows a charismatic young bartender whose ambition and flair for mixing drinks lead him into a world of nightlife, romance, and moral compromise, and it later served as the basis for the 1988 film starring Tom Cruise.
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A.
Cocktail Time
"Cocktail Time" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the mischievous Earl of Ickenham (Uncle Fred) as he orchestrates romantic entanglements and social chaos in his characteristic lighthearted style.
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B.
Cradle of the Daiquiri
Cradle of the Daiquiri is the famed nickname of Havana’s historic El Floridita bar, celebrated worldwide as the birthplace and iconic home of the classic daiquiri cocktail.
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C.
The Great Intoxication
"The Great Intoxication" is a song by the band Feelings, likely characterized by emotionally charged lyrics and a vivid, immersive atmosphere.
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D.
Bartender's Blues
"Bartender's Blues" is a country song best known from George Jones’s 1978 recording, portraying the melancholy life and emotional struggles of a bartender.
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E.
Los borrachos
Los borrachos is a celebrated early 17th-century painting by Diego Velázquez depicting the Roman god Bacchus carousing with a group of drunkards in a naturalistic, earthy style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Cocktail (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Heywood Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cocktail (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Heywood Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | charismatic young bartender ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
moral compromise
ⓘ
nightlife ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the basis for the 1988 film starring Tom Cruise ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| setting | bars and nightlife scene ⓘ |
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: Cocktail (novel) Description of subject: "Cocktail (novel)" is a 1984 book by Heywood Gould that follows a charismatic young bartender whose ambition and flair for mixing drinks lead him into a world of nightlife, romance, and moral compromise, and it later served as the basis for the 1988 film starring Tom Cruise.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cocktail (film)
this entity surface form:
Cocktail (film)
this entity surface form:
Cocktail (film series/fictional universe)