Desperately Seeking Susan (film)
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Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film blending romance, mistaken identity, and New York City street culture, widely known for featuring Madonna in one of her earliest major acting roles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Desperately Seeking Susan | 13 |
| Desperately Seeking Susan (film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3166885 — 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)
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Target entity: Desperately Seeking Susan (film) Context triple: [Madonna, notableWork, Desperately Seeking Susan (film)]
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Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith that explores complex relationships and sexual identity within the comic book subculture.
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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.
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Seven Year Itch
"Seven Year Itch" is a 1988 comeback blues and soul album by legendary American singer Etta James, marking a powerful return after years of personal and professional struggles.
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 fantasy-romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen about a movie character who steps off the screen into the real world during the Great Depression.
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Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
- 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: Desperately Seeking Susan (film) Target entity description: Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film blending romance, mistaken identity, and New York City street culture, widely known for featuring Madonna in one of her earliest major acting roles.
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A.
Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith that explores complex relationships and sexual identity within the comic book subculture.
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B.
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.
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C.
Seven Year Itch
"Seven Year Itch" is a 1988 comeback blues and soul album by legendary American singer Etta James, marking a powerful return after years of personal and professional struggles.
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D.
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 fantasy-romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen about a movie character who steps off the screen into the real world during the Great Depression.
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E.
Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American coming-of-age comedy film best known for launching Tom Cruise to stardom with its iconic dance-in-underwear scene and satirical take on teenage rebellion and capitalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Desperately Seeking Susan (film) Description of subject: Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 American comedy-drama film blending romance, mistaken identity, and New York City street culture, widely known for featuring Madonna in one of her earliest major acting roles.
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