Waiting to Exhale
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Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, that follows the intertwined lives and relationships of four African-American women.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34262 — 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: Waiting to Exhale Context triple: [Whitney Houston, notableWork, Waiting to Exhale]
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The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard is a 1992 romantic thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, featuring Houston’s iconic performance and hit soundtrack including “I Will Always Love You.”
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B.
Once Again
Once Again is John Legend's Grammy-winning second studio album, known for its soulful blend of R&B, pop, and neo-soul.
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C.
The Tender Trap
The Tender Trap is a 1955 romantic comedy film starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name.
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D.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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E.
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is a 1987 upbeat pop and dance anthem by Whitney Houston that became one of her signature hits and a global chart-topping classic.
- 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: Waiting to Exhale Target entity description: Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, that follows the intertwined lives and relationships of four African-American women.
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A.
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard is a 1992 romantic thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, featuring Houston’s iconic performance and hit soundtrack including “I Will Always Love You.”
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B.
Once Again
Once Again is John Legend's Grammy-winning second studio album, known for its soulful blend of R&B, pop, and neo-soul.
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C.
The Tender Trap
The Tender Trap is a 1955 romantic comedy film starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, adapted from the Broadway play of the same name.
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D.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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E.
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" is a 1987 upbeat pop and dance anthem by Whitney Houston that became one of her signature hits and a global chart-topping classic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Waiting to Exhale Description of subject: Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Terry McMillan’s novel, that follows the intertwined lives and relationships of four African-American women.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lela Rochon
this entity surface form:
Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album
this entity surface form:
Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album
subject surface form:
Mykelti Williamson
this entity surface form:
Russell in Waiting to Exhale