Despicable Me
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Despicable Me is a popular animated film franchise centered on reformed supervillain Gru and his mischievous yellow Minions, known for its comedic family-friendly storytelling and global box office success.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433393 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Despicable Me Context triple: [Universal Pictures, notableFranchise, Despicable Me]
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Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem is a 3D motion-simulator theme park ride based on the Despicable Me film franchise, featuring the mischievous Minions in an immersive, family-friendly adventure.
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Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 animated comedy film that follows two monsters working at a scream-powered energy company whose lives are upended when a human child enters their world.
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The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is a 2014 animated adventure-comedy film that follows an ordinary LEGO minifigure mistaken for a prophesied hero in a fast-paced, self-aware story set in a world built entirely from LEGO bricks.
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Monsters University
Monsters University is a 2013 Pixar animated prequel to Monsters, Inc. that follows Mike and Sulley’s college years as they train to become professional scarers.
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Coco
Coco is a 2017 Pixar animated film that follows a young Mexican boy’s journey through the Land of the Dead as he uncovers his family’s history and celebrates Día de los Muertos.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Despicable Me Target entity description: Despicable Me is a popular animated film franchise centered on reformed supervillain Gru and his mischievous yellow Minions, known for its comedic family-friendly storytelling and global box office success.
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A.
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem is a 3D motion-simulator theme park ride based on the Despicable Me film franchise, featuring the mischievous Minions in an immersive, family-friendly adventure.
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B.
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 animated comedy film that follows two monsters working at a scream-powered energy company whose lives are upended when a human child enters their world.
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C.
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is a 2014 animated adventure-comedy film that follows an ordinary LEGO minifigure mistaken for a prophesied hero in a fast-paced, self-aware story set in a world built entirely from LEGO bricks.
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D.
Monsters University
Monsters University is a 2013 Pixar animated prequel to Monsters, Inc. that follows Mike and Sulley’s college years as they train to become professional scarers.
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E.
Coco
Coco is a 2017 Pixar animated film that follows a young Mexican boy’s journey through the Land of the Dead as he uncovers his family’s history and celebrates Día de los Muertos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Despicable Me Description of subject: Despicable Me is a popular animated film franchise centered on reformed supervillain Gru and his mischievous yellow Minions, known for its comedic family-friendly storytelling and global box office success.
Referenced by (152)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Illumination
this entity surface form:
Despicable Me film series