The Last American Hero (1973 film)
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The Last American Hero (1973 film) is a 1973 sports drama loosely based on the life of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson, depicting his rise from moonshine runner to stock car racing star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Last American Hero (1973 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13101202 — 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: The Last American Hero (1973 film) Context triple: [Junior Johnson, subjectOf, The Last American Hero (1973 film)]
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A.
Patton (1970 film)
Patton (1970 film) is an epic biographical war drama about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II, renowned for its powerful lead performance by George C. Scott and its sweeping, large-format cinematography.
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B.
Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra as an American POW leading a daring escape from a German prison camp by hijacking a train.
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C.
An Officer and a Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 romantic drama film about a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate’s rigorous training and personal transformation, noted for its powerful performances and iconic love story.
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D.
The Long Gray Line (film)
The Long Gray Line is a 1955 biographical drama film about a longtime West Point athletic instructor, directed by John Ford and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.
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E.
Patton
Patton is a surname most famously associated with U.S. General George S. Patton, a prominent and controversial World War II military commander.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Last American Hero (1973 film) Target entity description: The Last American Hero (1973 film) is a 1973 sports drama loosely based on the life of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson, depicting his rise from moonshine runner to stock car racing star.
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A.
Patton (1970 film)
Patton (1970 film) is an epic biographical war drama about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II, renowned for its powerful lead performance by George C. Scott and its sweeping, large-format cinematography.
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B.
Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 World War II adventure film starring Frank Sinatra as an American POW leading a daring escape from a German prison camp by hijacking a train.
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C.
An Officer and a Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 romantic drama film about a U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate’s rigorous training and personal transformation, noted for its powerful performances and iconic love story.
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D.
The Long Gray Line (film)
The Long Gray Line is a 1955 biographical drama film about a longtime West Point athletic instructor, directed by John Ford and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara.
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E.
Patton
Patton is a surname most famously associated with U.S. General George S. Patton, a prominent and controversial World War II military commander.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographical film
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film ⓘ sports drama film ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Hard Driver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
life of Junior Johnson
ⓘ
“The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!” ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Tom Wolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Junior Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterBasedOn | Junior Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | George Silano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Lamont Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Tom McDonough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRating | PG ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ sports drama film ⓘ |
| hasTitleSong | “I Got a Name” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
NASCAR
NERFINISHED
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moonshine running ⓘ stock car racing ⓘ |
| musicBy | Charles Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young moonshine runner rises to fame as a stock car racing driver. ⓘ |
| portrays |
NASCAR culture
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transition from illegal moonshining to professional racing ⓘ |
| producer | William Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1973-07-11 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
William Kerby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Art Lund
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Busey NERFINISHED ⓘ Geraldine Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ Valerie Perrine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleSongPerformer | Jim Croce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Last American Hero (1973 film) Description of subject: The Last American Hero (1973 film) is a 1973 sports drama loosely based on the life of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson, depicting his rise from moonshine runner to stock car racing star.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.