It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is a 1963 ensemble comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer, famous for its large all-star cast and frantic, slapstick race to find hidden loot.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | 4 |
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World canonical | 3 |
| It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5056873 — 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: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Context triple: [Sid Caesar, notableAppearance, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]
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A.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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B.
Weekend in L.A.
"Weekend in L.A." is a popular live jazz and R&B album by guitarist and vocalist George Benson, celebrated for its smooth style and hit rendition of "On Broadway."
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C.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. is a 1982 action-comedy film that helped launch Eddie Murphy’s movie career, pairing him with Nick Nolte as an unlikely duo tracking down criminals over a two-day span.
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D.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film about two con men on the French Riviera, best known for its witty script and Steve Martin’s acclaimed performance alongside Michael Caine.
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E.
Three Amigos
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as out-of-work silent film actors mistaken for real heroes in a Mexican village.
- 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: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Target entity description: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is a 1963 ensemble comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer, famous for its large all-star cast and frantic, slapstick race to find hidden loot.
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A.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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B.
Weekend in L.A.
"Weekend in L.A." is a popular live jazz and R&B album by guitarist and vocalist George Benson, celebrated for its smooth style and hit rendition of "On Broadway."
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C.
48 Hrs.
48 Hrs. is a 1982 action-comedy film that helped launch Eddie Murphy’s movie career, pairing him with Nick Nolte as an unlikely duo tracking down criminals over a two-day span.
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D.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 comedy film about two con men on the French Riviera, best known for its witty script and Steve Martin’s acclaimed performance alongside Michael Caine.
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E.
Three Amigos
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as out-of-work silent film actors mistaken for real heroes in a Mexican village.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2.76:1 ⓘ |
| award | Academy Award for Best Sound Effects (won) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ernest Laszlo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Stanley Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Frederic Knudtson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gene Fowler Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert C. Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | Ultra Panavision 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure comedy
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ slapstick ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
chaos
ⓘ
greed ⓘ satire of American materialism ⓘ |
| musicBy | Ernest Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Film Editing NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Music, Score - Substantially Original NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
elaborate slapstick set pieces
ⓘ
large all-star cast ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | a group of strangers engage in a frantic race to find hidden loot buried under a "big W" ⓘ |
| producer | Stanley Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Stanley Kramer Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | November 7, 1963 (United States premiere) ⓘ |
| releaseType | roadshow presentation ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| runningTime |
approximately 161 minutes (general release cut)
ⓘ
approximately 192 minutes (original roadshow cut) ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Tania Rose
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Buddy Hackett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Buster Keaton NERFINISHED ⓘ Carl Reiner NERFINISHED ⓘ Dick Shawn NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Knotts NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorothy Provine NERFINISHED ⓘ Edie Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethel Merman NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Benny NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Backus NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Winters NERFINISHED ⓘ Mickey Rooney NERFINISHED ⓘ Milton Berle NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Falk NERFINISHED ⓘ Phil Silvers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sid Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ Spencer Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry-Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Stooges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | William Rose 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: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Description of subject: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is a 1963 ensemble comedy film directed by Stanley Kramer, famous for its large all-star cast and frantic, slapstick race to find hidden loot.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
this entity surface form:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963 film)
this entity surface form:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
this entity surface form:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
this entity surface form:
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World