Gerry
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Gerry is a minimalist 2002 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as two friends lost in the desert.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerry canonical | 8 |
| Gerry (2002 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3034818 — 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: Gerry Context triple: [Gus Van Sant, notableWork, Gerry]
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A.
Gerry
Gerry is a surname most notably associated with Elbridge Gerry, an American statesman and fifth Vice President of the United States, whose name is the origin of the term "gerrymandering."
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B.
Gerry
Gerry is a fictional character played by Irish actor Ciarán Hinds, known from his work in film and television dramas.
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C.
Gerald
Gerald is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Gerald
Gerald is the birth name of Jerry Brown, the longtime Democratic politician and former governor of California.
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E.
Gerald
Gerald is the middle name of Stephen G. Breyer, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 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: Gerry Target entity description: Gerry is a minimalist 2002 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as two friends lost in the desert.
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A.
Gerry
Gerry is a surname most notably associated with Elbridge Gerry, an American statesman and fifth Vice President of the United States, whose name is the origin of the term "gerrymandering."
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B.
Gerry
Gerry is a fictional character played by Irish actor Ciarán Hinds, known from his work in film and television dramas.
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C.
Gerald
Gerald is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Gerald
Gerald is the middle name of Stephen G. Breyer, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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E.
Gerald
Gerald is the birth name of Jerry Brown, the longtime Democratic politician and former governor of California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Gerry Description of subject: Gerry is a minimalist 2002 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as two friends lost in the desert.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elephant (2003 film)
this entity surface form:
Gerry (2002 film)
subject surface form:
Gus Van Sant