Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 satirical musical comedy film that parodies musician biopics through the outrageous life story of fictional rock star Dewey Cox.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story canonical | 9 |
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5645219 — 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: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Context triple: [Jake Kasdan, notableWork, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story]
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A.
Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is an album by the band The Swingers, known for its blend of new wave and pop-rock sounds.
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B.
Hollywood Dirt
"Hollywood Dirt" is a romantic drama film produced and directed by Tosca Musk, adapted from Alessandra Torre’s bestselling novel about a small-town girl and a Hollywood star whose worlds collide during a movie shoot in rural Georgia.
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C.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 sports comedy film that satirizes NASCAR culture through the story of an overconfident race car driver’s fall and redemption.
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D.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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E.
Dolemite Is My Name
Dolemite Is My Name is a 2019 biographical comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore, chronicling his rise to fame and the making of the cult film Dolemite.
- 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: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Target entity description: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 satirical musical comedy film that parodies musician biopics through the outrageous life story of fictional rock star Dewey Cox.
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A.
Practical Jokers
Practical Jokers is an album by the band The Swingers, known for its blend of new wave and pop-rock sounds.
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B.
Hollywood Dirt
"Hollywood Dirt" is a romantic drama film produced and directed by Tosca Musk, adapted from Alessandra Torre’s bestselling novel about a small-town girl and a Hollywood star whose worlds collide during a movie shoot in rural Georgia.
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C.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 sports comedy film that satirizes NASCAR culture through the story of an overconfident race car driver’s fall and redemption.
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D.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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E.
Dolemite Is My Name
Dolemite Is My Name is a 2019 biographical comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore, chronicling his rise to fame and the making of the cult film Dolemite.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ueli Steiger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jake Kasdan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tara Timpone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCameo |
Eddie Vedder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack White NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackson Browne NERFINISHED ⓘ Jewel NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyle Lovett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Dewey Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
musical comedy
ⓘ
parody ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasSong |
Guilty as Charged
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Let’s Duet NERFINISHED ⓘ Walk Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
parody of celebrity culture
ⓘ
rise and fall of a musician ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | biopic parody ⓘ |
| parodies |
Ray
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Walk the Line NERFINISHED ⓘ musician biopics ⓘ |
| producer |
Clayton Townsend
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Judd Apatow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Apatow Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | December 21, 2007 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1950s
ⓘ
1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ |
| starring |
Chris Parnell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jenna Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ John C. Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristen Wiig NERFINISHED ⓘ Margo Martindale NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Besser NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond J. Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Meadows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Jake Kasdan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Judd Apatow 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: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Description of subject: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 satirical musical comedy film that parodies musician biopics through the outrageous life story of fictional rock star Dewey Cox.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jake Kasdan
this entity surface form:
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (score)