Mr. Woodcock
E503720
Mr. Woodcock is a 2007 American comedy film about a man who discovers that his overbearing former gym teacher is engaged to his mother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Woodcock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5214534 — 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: Mr. Woodcock Context triple: [Craig Gillespie, directed, Mr. Woodcock]
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A.
Mr. Jones
"Mr. Jones" is a hit alternative rock song by Counting Crows, known for its introspective lyrics about fame, dreams, and identity.
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B.
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown is the kind-hearted but often flustered father figure from the "Paddington" film series.
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C.
Mr. Sparks
Mr. Sparks is a friendly, mechanically skilled character in the Noddy children's stories who often helps fix things in Toyland.
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D.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
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E.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
- 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: Mr. Woodcock Target entity description: Mr. Woodcock is a 2007 American comedy film about a man who discovers that his overbearing former gym teacher is engaged to his mother.
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A.
Mr. Jones
"Mr. Jones" is a hit alternative rock song by Counting Crows, known for its introspective lyrics about fame, dreams, and identity.
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B.
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown is the kind-hearted but often flustered father figure from the "Paddington" film series.
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C.
Mr. Sparks
Mr. Sparks is a friendly, mechanically skilled character in the Noddy children's stories who often helps fix things in Toyland.
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D.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
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E.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | about $33 million ⓘ |
| character |
Beverly Farley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jasper Woodcock NERFINISHED ⓘ John Farley NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Tami Reiker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Craig Gillespie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Dobkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New Line Cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alan Baumgarten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
confronting the past
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ self-improvement ⓘ |
| mainSetting | small town in Nebraska ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Theodore Shapiro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | conflict between a man and his former gym teacher who is engaged to his mother ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A successful self-help author returns to his hometown and discovers that his overbearing former gym teacher is engaged to his widowed mother. ⓘ |
| producer |
Bob Cooper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Dobkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Barber NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Birnbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
New Line Cinema
ⓘ
Relative Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-09-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Josh Gilbert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Carnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Amy Poehler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billy Bob Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethan Suplee NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacob Davich NERFINISHED ⓘ Melissa Sagemiller NERFINISHED ⓘ Seann William Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Sarandon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Mr. Woodcock 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: Mr. Woodcock Description of subject: Mr. Woodcock is a 2007 American comedy film about a man who discovers that his overbearing former gym teacher is engaged to his mother.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.