Napoleon Dynamite
E488406
Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 cult-classic indie comedy film about an awkward Idaho teenager navigating high school life, known for its deadpan humor and quirky characters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Napoleon Dynamite canonical | 5 |
| Napoleon Dynamite animated series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5039627 — 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: Napoleon Dynamite Context triple: [MTV Films, notableWork, Napoleon Dynamite]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 sports comedy film that satirizes NASCAR culture through the story of an overconfident race car driver’s fall and redemption.
-
C.
Superbad
Superbad is a 2007 coming-of-age teen comedy film about two socially awkward high school friends navigating one wild night before graduation.
-
D.
Kicking & Screaming
Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 sports comedy film starring Will Ferrell as an overzealous youth soccer coach competing against his domineering father.
-
E.
Junebug
Junebug is a 2005 independent drama film best known for featuring Amy Adams in a critically acclaimed, breakout supporting role.
- 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: Napoleon Dynamite Target entity description: Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 cult-classic indie comedy film about an awkward Idaho teenager navigating high school life, known for its deadpan humor and quirky characters.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 sports comedy film that satirizes NASCAR culture through the story of an overconfident race car driver’s fall and redemption.
-
C.
Superbad
Superbad is a 2007 coming-of-age teen comedy film about two socially awkward high school friends navigating one wild night before graduation.
-
D.
Kicking & Screaming
Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 sports comedy film starring Will Ferrell as an overzealous youth soccer coach competing against his domineering father.
-
E.
Junebug
Junebug is a 2005 independent drama film best known for featuring Amy Adams in a critically acclaimed, breakout supporting role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
ⓘ
film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | short film Peluca ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwideUSD | 46000000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 400000 ⓘ |
| character |
Deb Bradshaw
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kip Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleon Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ Pedro Sánchez NERFINISHED ⓘ Uncle Rico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Munn Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jared Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Fox Searchlight Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jeremy Coon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ teen film ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
awkward high school setting
ⓘ
deadpan humor ⓘ quirky characters ⓘ |
| mainProtagonist | Napoleon Dynamite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Swihart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Wyatt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sean Covel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Access Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MTV Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2004-06-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 82 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Preston, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Aaron Ruell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Diedrich Bader NERFINISHED ⓘ Efren Ramirez NERFINISHED ⓘ Haylie Duff NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Gries NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Heder NERFINISHED ⓘ Tina Majorino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Jared Hess
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerusha Hess 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: Napoleon Dynamite Description of subject: Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 cult-classic indie comedy film about an awkward Idaho teenager navigating high school life, known for its deadpan humor and quirky characters.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Napoleon Dynamite animated series