The Last Picture Show
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The Last Picture Show is a 1971 coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, acclaimed for its stark black-and-white portrayal of small-town Texas in the 1950s and its ensemble cast of rising stars.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Last Picture Show canonical | 23 |
| The Last Picture Show (novel) | 1 |
| The Last Picture Show series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384834 — 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 Last Picture Show Context triple: [Cloris Leachman, notableWork, The Last Picture Show]
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A.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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B.
The Searchers
The Searchers is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Ford, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential movies in cinema history.
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C.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama road film directed by Steven Spielberg and noted for its blend of suspense, dark humor, and social commentary.
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D.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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E.
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film starring Jack Nicholson, celebrated as a landmark of the New Hollywood era for its character-driven storytelling and portrayal of alienation.
- 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 Last Picture Show Target entity description: The Last Picture Show is a 1971 coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, acclaimed for its stark black-and-white portrayal of small-town Texas in the 1950s and its ensemble cast of rising stars.
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A.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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B.
The Searchers
The Searchers is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Ford, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential movies in cinema history.
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C.
The Sugarland Express
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama road film directed by Steven Spielberg and noted for its blend of suspense, dark humor, and social commentary.
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D.
Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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E.
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film starring Jack Nicholson, celebrated as a landmark of the New Hollywood era for its character-driven storytelling and portrayal of alienation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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 Picture Show Description of subject: The Last Picture Show is a 1971 coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, acclaimed for its stark black-and-white portrayal of small-town Texas in the 1950s and its ensemble cast of rising stars.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Last Picture Show (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Last Picture Show series