Harry and the Hendersons
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Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry and the Hendersons canonical | 8 |
| Harry and the Hendersons (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3585063 — 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: Harry and the Hendersons Context triple: [John Lithgow, notableWork, Harry and the Hendersons]
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A.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
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B.
With a Friend Like Harry...
With a Friend Like Harry... is a French psychological thriller film about a seemingly helpful old acquaintance whose increasingly intrusive “assistance” turns sinister.
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C.
Hoot
Hoot was the nickname of Bob Gibson, the Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his dominant career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Hooch
Hooch is the slobbery but lovable Dogue de Bordeaux who partners with Tom Hanks’s character in the 1989 buddy-cop comedy film "Turner & Hooch."
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E.
Rowdy
Rowdy is the costumed bird mascot of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
- 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: Harry and the Hendersons Target entity description: Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
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A.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard is a 1980 American comedy-drama film, directed by Jonathan Demme, that fictionalizes the story of a gas-station attendant who allegedly befriends billionaire Howard Hughes and later claims to inherit part of his fortune.
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B.
With a Friend Like Harry...
With a Friend Like Harry... is a French psychological thriller film about a seemingly helpful old acquaintance whose increasingly intrusive “assistance” turns sinister.
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C.
Hoot
Hoot was the nickname of Bob Gibson, the Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher renowned for his dominant career with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Hooch
Hooch is the slobbery but lovable Dogue de Bordeaux who partners with Tom Hanks’s character in the 1989 buddy-cop comedy film "Turner & Hooch."
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E.
Rowdy
Rowdy is the costumed bird mascot of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Harry and the Hendersons Description of subject: Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Harry and the Hendersons
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hasTelevisionAdaptation
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Harry and the Hendersons
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Harry and the Hendersons (TV series)