The Comedian
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The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy-drama film starring Robert De Niro as an aging insult comic struggling to reinvent his career and personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Comedian canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4977905 — 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: The Comedian Context triple: [TriBeCa Productions, notableWork, The Comedian]
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A.
The Comedian
The Comedian is a brutal, cynical costumed vigilante whose violent worldview and mysterious death help drive the dark, deconstructive narrative of Watchmen.
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B.
Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe is a groundbreaking early-1960s British satirical stage revue that helped launch the modern era of sketch comedy and satire.
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C.
The Comedians (TV series)
The Comedians is a television comedy series that pairs veteran and younger comics in a mockumentary-style look at the making of a sketch show, blending scripted humor with behind-the-scenes satire.
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D.
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy is a 1982 dark comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese that satirizes celebrity culture through the story of an obsessive aspiring comedian.
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E.
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy is a nickname for Jerry Lewis, the influential American comedian, actor, and filmmaker renowned for his slapstick humor and pioneering work in comedy.
- 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: The Comedian Target entity description: The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy-drama film starring Robert De Niro as an aging insult comic struggling to reinvent his career and personal life.
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A.
The Comedian
The Comedian is a brutal, cynical costumed vigilante whose violent worldview and mysterious death help drive the dark, deconstructive narrative of Watchmen.
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B.
Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe is a groundbreaking early-1960s British satirical stage revue that helped launch the modern era of sketch comedy and satire.
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C.
The Comedians (TV series)
The Comedians is a television comedy series that pairs veteran and younger comics in a mockumentary-style look at the making of a sketch show, blending scripted humor with behind-the-scenes satire.
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D.
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy is a 1982 dark comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese that satirizes celebrity culture through the story of an obsessive aspiring comedian.
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E.
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy is a nickname for Jerry Lewis, the influential American comedian, actor, and filmmaker renowned for his slapstick humor and pioneering work in comedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Dickie – Billy Crystal
NERFINISHED
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Flo – Patti LuPone NERFINISHED ⓘ Harmony Schiltz – Leslie Mann ⓘ Jackie Burke – Robert De Niro NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Berkowitz – Danny DeVito NERFINISHED ⓘ Mac Schiltz – Harvey Keitel ⓘ May Conner – Cloris Leachman NERFINISHED ⓘ Miller – Edie Falco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Oliver Stapleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Taylor Hackford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Mark Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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comedy-drama ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt1967614 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jackie Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Terence Blanchard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film follows aging insult comic Jackie Burke as he struggles to reinvent his career and personal life after a public outburst damages his reputation. ⓘ |
| producer |
Art Linson
NERFINISHED
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Courtney Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ John Linson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Canton NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylor Hackford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Cinelandia
NERFINISHED
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Cinelou Films NERFINISHED ⓘ Linson Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate |
2016-11-11
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2017-02-03 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 120 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Art Linson
NERFINISHED
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Jeff Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Friedman NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard LaGravenese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Billy Crystal
NERFINISHED
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Charles Grodin NERFINISHED ⓘ Cloris Leachman NERFINISHED ⓘ Danny DeVito NERFINISHED ⓘ Edie Falco NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannibal Buress NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey Keitel NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Norton NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ Patti LuPone NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert De Niro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Art Linson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2016 ⓘ |
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: The Comedian Description of subject: The Comedian is a 2016 American comedy-drama film starring Robert De Niro as an aging insult comic struggling to reinvent his career and personal life.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.