film Looking for Eric
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Looking for Eric is a British comedy-drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows a struggling Manchester postman who finds guidance and inspiration through imagined conversations with football legend Eric Cantona.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| film Looking for Eric canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13011142 — 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: film Looking for Eric Context triple: [Stephanie Bishop, knownFor, film Looking for Eric]
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A.
Looking: The Movie
Looking: The Movie is a feature-length continuation and conclusion of the HBO dramedy series "Looking," following a group of gay friends navigating love and identity in contemporary San Francisco.
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B.
Man Seeking Woman
Man Seeking Woman is a surreal, darkly comedic television series that follows a young man's exaggerated and fantastical misadventures in modern dating.
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C.
If U Seek Amy
"If U Seek Amy" is a provocative pop song by Britney Spears from her 2008 album "Circus," known for its controversial double entendre in the title and lyrics.
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D.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
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E.
film "Lenny"
The film "Lenny" is a 1974 biographical drama directed by Bob Fosse that chronicles the controversial life and career of groundbreaking stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.
- 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: film Looking for Eric Target entity description: Looking for Eric is a British comedy-drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows a struggling Manchester postman who finds guidance and inspiration through imagined conversations with football legend Eric Cantona.
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A.
Looking: The Movie
Looking: The Movie is a feature-length continuation and conclusion of the HBO dramedy series "Looking," following a group of gay friends navigating love and identity in contemporary San Francisco.
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B.
Man Seeking Woman
Man Seeking Woman is a surreal, darkly comedic television series that follows a young man's exaggerated and fantastical misadventures in modern dating.
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C.
If U Seek Amy
"If U Seek Amy" is a provocative pop song by Britney Spears from her 2008 album "Circus," known for its controversial double entendre in the title and lyrics.
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D.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
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E.
film "Lenny"
The film "Lenny" is a 1974 biographical drama directed by Bob Fosse that chronicles the controversial life and career of groundbreaking stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| award | Magritte Award for Best Foreign Film in Coproduction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Barry Ackroyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Ken Loach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorNationality | British ⓘ |
| distributor | Icon Film Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jonathan Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Eric Cantona (fictionalized version) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSection | Competition (Cannes Film Festival) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
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sports film ⓘ |
| hasFootballClubReference | Manchester United F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt1242545 ⓘ |
| hasRottenTomatoesEntry | Looking for Eric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Eric Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | George Fenton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | struggling postman seeking guidance ⓘ |
| portrays | imagined conversations with Eric Cantona ⓘ |
| posterCaption | Theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Rebecca O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Sixteen Films
NERFINISHED
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Why Not Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild Bunch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUK | 2009-06-12 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 116 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Laverty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Eric Cantona
NERFINISHED
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Gerard Kearns NERFINISHED ⓘ John Henshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephanie Bishop NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Evets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
football fandom
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friendship ⓘ self-improvement ⓘ working-class life ⓘ |
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: film Looking for Eric Description of subject: Looking for Eric is a British comedy-drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows a struggling Manchester postman who finds guidance and inspiration through imagined conversations with football legend Eric Cantona.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.