Hector and the Search for Happiness
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Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 comedy-drama film, based on François Lelord’s novel, that follows a psychiatrist’s global journey to discover what truly makes people happy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hector and the Search for Happiness canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141983 — 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: Hector and the Search for Happiness Context triple: [Simon Pegg, notableWork, Hector and the Search for Happiness]
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A.
Bliss
"Bliss" is a track from Mariah Carey's 1999 album "Rainbow," known for its sensual lyrics and layered vocal arrangements.
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B.
Bliss
Bliss is a surname most notably associated with Lucille Bliss, an American voice actress known for her work in classic animated films and television series.
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C.
Bliss
Bliss is a darkly comic novel by Australian author Peter Carey that follows an advertising executive who, after a near-death experience, attempts to radically transform his life.
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D.
Bliss
"Bliss" is a song featured on Taylor Swift’s album *Lover*, known for its upbeat pop sound and emotionally charged lyrics.
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E.
Bliss
Bliss is a pivotal telepathic character in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "Foundation and Earth," embodying a collective planetary consciousness.
- 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: Hector and the Search for Happiness Target entity description: Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 comedy-drama film, based on François Lelord’s novel, that follows a psychiatrist’s global journey to discover what truly makes people happy.
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A.
Bliss
"Bliss" is a track from Mariah Carey's 1999 album "Rainbow," known for its sensual lyrics and layered vocal arrangements.
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B.
Bliss
Bliss is a surname most notably associated with Lucille Bliss, an American voice actress known for her work in classic animated films and television series.
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C.
Bliss
Bliss is a darkly comic novel by Australian author Peter Carey that follows an advertising executive who, after a near-death experience, attempts to radically transform his life.
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D.
Bliss
"Bliss" is a song featured on Taylor Swift’s album *Lover*, known for its upbeat pop sound and emotionally charged lyrics.
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E.
Bliss
Bliss is a pivotal telepathic character in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "Foundation and Earth," embodying a collective planetary consciousness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hector and the Search for Happiness (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | François Lelord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Agnes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clara NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward NERFINISHED ⓘ Hector NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Kolja Brandt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Peter Chelsom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Entertainment One
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Relativity Media NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Claus Wehlisch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresLocation |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Vancouver ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
happiness
ⓘ
personal growth ⓘ relationships ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Dan Mangan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jesse Zubot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | search for happiness ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Judy Tossell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Klaus Dohle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseEvent | Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Maria von Heland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Chelsom NERFINISHED ⓘ Tinker Lindsay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| starring |
Christopher Plummer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jean Reno NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosamund Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Pegg NERFINISHED ⓘ Stellan Skarsgård NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Collette 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: Hector and the Search for Happiness Description of subject: Hector and the Search for Happiness is a 2014 comedy-drama film, based on François Lelord’s novel, that follows a psychiatrist’s global journey to discover what truly makes people happy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.