Joe Dirt
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Joe Dirt is a 2001 American comedy film starring David Spade as a mullet-wearing underdog who embarks on a cross-country journey to find his parents.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Dirt canonical | 9 |
| Joe Dirt in Joe Dirt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5064340 — 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: Joe Dirt Context triple: [Fred Ward, notableWork, Joe Dirt]
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A.
Ricky Bobby
Ricky Bobby is a fictional, overconfident NASCAR driver and comedic protagonist from the film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," portrayed by Will Ferrell.
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B.
Kim Billick
Kim Billick is best known as the wife of former NFL head coach and Super Bowl champion Brian Billick.
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C.
Charlie Mole
Charlie Mole is a British composer best known for his work on film and television scores.
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D.
Mr. Cowboy
Mr. Cowboy is the nickname of Bob Lilly, a Hall of Fame defensive tackle renowned as one of the greatest players in Dallas Cowboys history.
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E.
Rod Kimble
Rod Kimble is the inept but determined amateur stuntman protagonist of the comedy film "Hot Rod," portrayed by Andy Samberg.
- 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: Joe Dirt Target entity description: Joe Dirt is a 2001 American comedy film starring David Spade as a mullet-wearing underdog who embarks on a cross-country journey to find his parents.
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A.
Ricky Bobby
Ricky Bobby is a fictional, overconfident NASCAR driver and comedic protagonist from the film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," portrayed by Will Ferrell.
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B.
Kim Billick
Kim Billick is best known as the wife of former NFL head coach and Super Bowl champion Brian Billick.
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C.
Charlie Mole
Charlie Mole is a British composer best known for his work on film and television scores.
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D.
Mr. Cowboy
Mr. Cowboy is the nickname of Bob Lilly, a Hall of Fame defensive tackle renowned as one of the greatest players in Dallas Cowboys history.
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E.
Rod Kimble
Rod Kimble is the inept but determined amateur stuntman protagonist of the comedy film "Hot Rod," portrayed by Andy Samberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| character |
Brandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clem NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Dirt NERFINISHED ⓘ Kicking Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ Robby NERFINISHED ⓘ Zander Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John R. Leonetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Dennie Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Peck Prior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
road movie ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | janitor ⓘ |
| mainCharacterTrait |
mullet-wearing
ⓘ
optimistic ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Waddy Wachtel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | radio show interview ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
search for family
ⓘ
underdog perseverance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film follows Joe Dirt, a mullet-wearing underdog, on a cross-country journey to find his parents. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Simonds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Happy Madison Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2001-04-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 91 minutes ⓘ |
| sequelReleaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Adam Beach
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brittany Daniel NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Walken NERFINISHED ⓘ David Spade NERFINISHED ⓘ Dennis Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Jaime Pressly NERFINISHED ⓘ Kid Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy |
David Spade
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Joe Dirt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
David Spade
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred Wolf 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: Joe Dirt Description of subject: Joe Dirt is a 2001 American comedy film starring David Spade as a mullet-wearing underdog who embarks on a cross-country journey to find his parents.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joe Dirt in Joe Dirt