The Breakfast Club
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The Breakfast Club is a 1985 coming-of-age teen film directed by John Hughes that follows five high school students from different cliques who bond during a Saturday detention.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Breakfast Club canonical | 13 |
| The Breakfast Club (syndicated video simulcast) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6042996 — 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: The Breakfast Club Context triple: [Molly Ringwald, notableWork, The Breakfast Club]
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A.
Heathers
Heathers is a 1989 dark comedy film that satirizes high school cliques, teen violence, and social hierarchies, and has since become a cult classic.
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B.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film directed by John Hughes that follows a charming high school slacker who skips school for an adventurous day in Chicago.
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C.
Ferris Bueller
Ferris Bueller is a charming, quick-witted high school student known for cleverly skipping school and breaking the fourth wall in the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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D.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 coming-of-age teen comedy film, based on Cameron Crowe’s book, that became a cult classic and helped launch the careers of several young actors including Sean Penn.
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E.
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink is a 1986 teen romantic comedy-drama film written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch, known for its portrayal of high school class divides and its iconic Brat Pack cast.
- 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: The Breakfast Club Target entity description: The Breakfast Club is a 1985 coming-of-age teen film directed by John Hughes that follows five high school students from different cliques who bond during a Saturday detention.
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A.
Heathers
Heathers is a 1989 dark comedy film that satirizes high school cliques, teen violence, and social hierarchies, and has since become a cult classic.
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B.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film directed by John Hughes that follows a charming high school slacker who skips school for an adventurous day in Chicago.
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C.
Ferris Bueller
Ferris Bueller is a charming, quick-witted high school student known for cleverly skipping school and breaking the fourth wall in the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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D.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 coming-of-age teen comedy film, based on Cameron Crowe’s book, that became a cult classic and helped launch the careers of several young actors including Sean Penn.
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E.
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink is a 1986 teen romantic comedy-drama film written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch, known for its portrayal of high school class divides and its iconic Brat Pack cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alsoStarring |
John Kapelos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Gleason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Thomas Del Ruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | John Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dede Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
coming-of-age ⓘ teen drama ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Allison Reynolds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andrew Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Claire Standish NERFINISHED ⓘ John Bender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Keith Forsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Saturday detention ⓘ |
| notableSong | "Don't You (Forget About Me)" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Brat Pack films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Ally Sheedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anthony Michael Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Emilio Estevez NERFINISHED ⓘ Judd Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Molly Ringwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
John Hughes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ned Tanen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
A&M Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Channel Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | classic teen film ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985-02-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | John Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shermer High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
high school social cliques
ⓘ
identity ⓘ rebellion ⓘ stereotypes ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 1980s ⓘ |
| writtenInForm | ensemble piece ⓘ |
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: The Breakfast Club Description of subject: The Breakfast Club is a 1985 coming-of-age teen film directed by John Hughes that follows five high school students from different cliques who bond during a Saturday detention.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Breakfast Club (syndicated video simulcast)