Big Wednesday
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Big Wednesday is a 1978 coming-of-age surf drama film that follows a group of California surfers as they navigate friendship, adulthood, and the changing culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Wednesday canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6106935 — 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: Big Wednesday Context triple: [John Milius, notableWork, Big Wednesday]
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A.
The Big Day
The Big Day is Chance the Rapper’s 2019 debut studio album, a concept project centered on his wedding and adult life that received mixed critical reception.
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B.
Weekend
Weekend is a 1967 French black comedy and satirical road movie by Jean-Luc Godard, renowned for its anarchic style, long tracking shots, and scathing critique of consumerism and bourgeois society.
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C.
Time for Three
Time for Three is a genre-blending string trio known for fusing classical music with jazz, pop, and other contemporary styles in highly energetic performances.
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D.
Three Days
"Three Days" is a song by the American rock band Teatro.
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E.
Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo was a 1960s American musical variety television show that featured popular rock and pop performers of the era.
- 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: Big Wednesday Target entity description: Big Wednesday is a 1978 coming-of-age surf drama film that follows a group of California surfers as they navigate friendship, adulthood, and the changing culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
The Big Day
The Big Day is Chance the Rapper’s 2019 debut studio album, a concept project centered on his wedding and adult life that received mixed critical reception.
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B.
Weekend
Weekend is a 1967 French black comedy and satirical road movie by Jean-Luc Godard, renowned for its anarchic style, long tracking shots, and scathing critique of consumerism and bourgeois society.
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C.
Time for Three
Time for Three is a genre-blending string trio known for fusing classical music with jazz, pop, and other contemporary styles in highly energetic performances.
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D.
Three Days
"Three Days" is a song by the American rock band Teatro.
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E.
Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo was a 1960s American musical variety television show that featured popular rock and pop performers of the era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
surf film ⓘ |
| cinematography | Bruce Surtees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
Vietnam War draft
ⓘ
changing surf culture ⓘ |
| director | John Milius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| editor | Carroll Timothy O'Meara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| follows | group of surfers ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age drama
ⓘ
sports drama ⓘ surfing film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Gary Busey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jan-Michael Vincent NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Spinell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Purcell NERFINISHED ⓘ Patti D'Arbanville NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Melville NERFINISHED ⓘ William Katt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasPart | Vietnam War subplot ⓘ |
| locationOfStory |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malibu, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
adulthood
ⓘ
counterculture ⓘ friendship ⓘ surfing ⓘ |
| musicBy | Basil Poledouris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | transition to adulthood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
nostalgic portrayal of 1960s surf culture
ⓘ
realistic surf sequences ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Buzz Feitshans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Aaberg-Milius
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1978 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | May 26, 1978 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 120 minutes ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| writer |
Dennis Aaberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Milius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Big Wednesday Description of subject: Big Wednesday is a 1978 coming-of-age surf drama film that follows a group of California surfers as they navigate friendship, adulthood, and the changing culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.