Heathers
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Heathers is a 1989 dark comedy film that satirizes high school cliques, teen violence, and social hierarchies, and has since become a cult classic.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heathers canonical | 18 |
| Heathers (1989 film) | 2 |
| Heathers (franchise) | 1 |
| Heathers: The Musical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4765773 — 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: Heathers Context triple: [Winona Ryder, notableWork, Heathers]
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A.
Jennifer's Body
Jennifer's Body is a 2009 horror-comedy film about a possessed high school girl who preys on her male classmates, written by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried.
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B.
Ann's Court
Ann's Court is a modern residential and teaching court within Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Rowdy
Rowdy is the costumed bird mascot of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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D.
10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 teen romantic comedy film loosely based on Shakespeare’s "The Taming of the Shrew," set in an American high school.
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E.
American Pie
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film that became a pop-culture phenomenon for its raunchy humor and coming-of-age storyline centered on a group of high school friends.
- 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: Heathers Target entity description: Heathers is a 1989 dark comedy film that satirizes high school cliques, teen violence, and social hierarchies, and has since become a cult classic.
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A.
Jennifer's Body
Jennifer's Body is a 2009 horror-comedy film about a possessed high school girl who preys on her male classmates, written by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried.
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B.
Ann's Court
Ann's Court is a modern residential and teaching court within Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Rowdy
Rowdy is the costumed bird mascot of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
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D.
10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 teen romantic comedy film loosely based on Shakespeare’s "The Taming of the Shrew," set in an American high school.
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E.
American Pie
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film that became a pop-culture phenomenon for its raunchy humor and coming-of-age storyline centered on a group of high school friends.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
black comedy film
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film ⓘ teen film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Christian Slater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glenn Shadix NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ Lance Fenton NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisanne Falk NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Labyorteaux NERFINISHED ⓘ Penelope Milford NERFINISHED ⓘ Shannen Doherty NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherrie Wills NERFINISHED ⓘ Winona Ryder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Christian Slater as Jason Dean
NERFINISHED
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Kim Walker as Heather Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisanne Falk as Heather McNamara ⓘ Shannen Doherty as Heather Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Francis Kenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | David Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cultStatus | cult classic ⓘ |
| director | Michael Lehmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New World Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Norman Hollyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ teen comedy ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jawbreaker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mean Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Heather Chandler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heather Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ Heather McNamara NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
high school cliques
ⓘ
social hierarchies ⓘ teen violence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Denise Di Novi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Lehmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | New World Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1989-03-31 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Daniel Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Ohio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Westerburg High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Heathers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Heathers Description of subject: Heathers is a 1989 dark comedy film that satirizes high school cliques, teen violence, and social hierarchies, and has since become a cult classic.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Heathers: The Musical
this entity surface form:
Heathers (1989 film)
this entity surface form:
Heathers (1989 film)
this entity surface form:
Heathers (franchise)