Norbit
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Norbit is a 2007 American comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, known for its broad humor, heavy use of prosthetic makeup, and mixed critical reception.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Norbit canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4890003 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norbit Context triple: [Don Zimmerman, notableWork, Norbit]
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A.
Odie
Odie is the lovable, dim-witted yellow dog from the Garfield franchise, known for his boundless energy, slobbery affection, and frequent role as Garfield’s hapless sidekick.
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B.
Shep
Shep is the station code used to identify Sheppard–Yonge station in the Toronto subway system.
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C.
Petey
Petey is a diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Peter.
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D.
Laika
Laika is an American stop-motion animation studio renowned for visually distinctive, critically acclaimed films such as Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings.
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E.
Laika
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became the first living creature to orbit Earth, marking a pivotal moment in the early Space Race.
- 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: Norbit Target entity description: Norbit is a 2007 American comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, known for its broad humor, heavy use of prosthetic makeup, and mixed critical reception.
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A.
Odie
Odie is the lovable, dim-witted yellow dog from the Garfield franchise, known for his boundless energy, slobbery affection, and frequent role as Garfield’s hapless sidekick.
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B.
Shep
Shep is the station code used to identify Sheppard–Yonge station in the Toronto subway system.
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C.
Petey
Petey is a diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Peter.
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D.
Laika
Laika is an American stop-motion animation studio renowned for visually distinctive, critically acclaimed films such as Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo and the Two Strings.
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E.
Laika
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became the first living creature to orbit Earth, marking a pivotal moment in the early Space Race.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossUSD | 159000000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 60000000 ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Clark Mathis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Brian Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | John Refoua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Mr. Wong
NERFINISHED
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Norbit Albert Rice NERFINISHED ⓘ Rasputia Latimore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresProstheticMakeup | true ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | mixed to negative reviews ⓘ |
| knownFor |
broad humor
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controversial depictions and stereotypes ⓘ heavy use of prosthetic makeup ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Makeup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Robbins
NERFINISHED
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Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Tollin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
DreamWorks Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tollin/Robbins Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-02-09 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles Q. Murphy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Ronn NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay Scherick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Cuba Gooding Jr.
NERFINISHED
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Eddie Griffin NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Katt Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Crews NERFINISHED ⓘ Thandiwe Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starsActorInMultipleRoles | Eddie Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Norbit 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: Norbit Description of subject: Norbit is a 2007 American comedy film starring Eddie Murphy in multiple roles, known for its broad humor, heavy use of prosthetic makeup, and mixed critical reception.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Melanie Thandiwe Newton