The Beaver
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The Beaver is a 2011 drama film starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet, directed by Jodie Foster.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Beaver canonical | 20 |
| The Beaver (2011 film) | 3 |
| Der Biberpelz | 1 |
| The Beaver (film universe) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197747 — 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 Beaver Context triple: [Jodie Foster, directed, The Beaver]
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A.
Beaver
Beaver was one of the British ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest in 1773.
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B.
Beavers
The Beavers are the athletic teams representing Oregon State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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C.
Tim the Beaver
Tim the Beaver is the official mascot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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D.
Svans
Svans are a distinct subethnic group of Georgians known for their unique Svan language, highland culture, and traditional communities in the Svaneti region of the Caucasus.
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E.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
- 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 Beaver Target entity description: The Beaver is a 2011 drama film starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet, directed by Jodie Foster.
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A.
Beaver
Beaver was one of the British ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest in 1773.
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B.
Beavers
The Beavers are the athletic teams representing Oregon State University in NCAA Division I sports.
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C.
Tim the Beaver
Tim the Beaver is the official mascot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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D.
Svans
Svans are a distinct subethnic group of Georgians known for their unique Svan language, highland culture, and traditional communities in the Svaneti region of the Caucasus.
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E.
Milhous
Milhous is the distinctive middle name of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Beaver Description of subject: The Beaver is a 2011 drama film starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who begins communicating through a beaver hand puppet, directed by Jodie Foster.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Beaver (2011 film)
subject surface form:
Walter Black
subject surface form:
Walter Black
subject surface form:
Walter Black
subject surface form:
Mel Gibson
subject surface form:
Meredith Black
subject surface form:
Meredith Black
this entity surface form:
The Beaver (2011 film)
subject surface form:
Jodie Foster
this entity surface form:
The Beaver (film universe)
this entity surface form:
The Beaver (2011 film)
this entity surface form:
Der Biberpelz