Local Hero
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Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film about an American oil executive sent to a remote Scottish village, celebrated for its gentle humor, atmospheric setting, and acclaimed score by Mark Knopfler.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Local Hero canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5494181 — 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: Local Hero Context triple: [David Puttnam, notableWork, Local Hero]
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A.
Local Hero
"Local Hero" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1992 album "Lucky Town," reflecting his rock style and storytelling lyricism.
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B.
Road House
Road House is a 1989 American action film starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer hired to clean up a violent roadside bar.
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C.
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is a popular 1986 Australian comedy film about a rugged outback bushman navigating life and culture in New York City.
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D.
Red Dog
Red Dog is a 2011 Australian comedy-drama film based on the true story of a wandering kelpie that unites a remote mining community in Western Australia.
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E.
Bow Down
"Bow Down" is a 1996 gangsta rap album by Westside Connection that helped define West Coast hip hop’s aggressive, regionally proud sound.
- 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: Local Hero Target entity description: Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film about an American oil executive sent to a remote Scottish village, celebrated for its gentle humor, atmospheric setting, and acclaimed score by Mark Knopfler.
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A.
Local Hero
"Local Hero" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1992 album "Lucky Town," reflecting his rock style and storytelling lyricism.
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B.
Road House
Road House is a 1989 American action film starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer hired to clean up a violent roadside bar.
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C.
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is a popular 1986 Australian comedy film about a rugged outback bushman navigating life and culture in New York City.
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D.
Red Dog
Red Dog is a 2011 Australian comedy-drama film based on the true story of a wandering kelpie that unites a remote mining community in Western Australia.
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E.
Bow Down
"Bow Down" is a 1996 gangsta rap album by Westside Connection that helped define West Coast hip hop’s aggressive, regionally proud sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| award |
BAFTA Award for Best Direction nomination
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
BAFTA Award for Best Film nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Chris Menges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| cultStatus | cult classic ⓘ |
| director | Bill Forsyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| editedBy | Michael Bradsell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Arisaig, Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pennan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasSoundtrack | Local Hero: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corporate vs. community values
ⓘ
environmentalism ⓘ personal transformation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | MacIntyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | oil executive ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Knopfler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | American oil company buying Scottish village for refinery ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acclaimed score by Mark Knopfler
ⓘ
atmospheric setting ⓘ gentle humor ⓘ |
| posterTagline |
A beautiful place to visit.
ⓘ
They wanted it. They got it. They didn’t expect it. ⓘ |
| producer | David Puttnam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Goldcrest Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 111 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bill Forsyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
fictional village of Ferness ⓘ |
| soundtrackComposer | Mark Knopfler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundtrackNotableTrack | Going Home (Theme of the Local Hero) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Burt Lancaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Denis Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ Fulton Mackay NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Capaldi NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Riegert 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: Local Hero Description of subject: Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film about an American oil executive sent to a remote Scottish village, celebrated for its gentle humor, atmospheric setting, and acclaimed score by Mark Knopfler.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.