Smart People
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Smart People is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a widowed, self-absorbed literature professor whose life is upended by unexpected family and romantic developments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smart People canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6228898 — 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: Smart People Context triple: [Elliot Page, notableWork, Smart People]
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A.
Get Smart
Get Smart is a 2008 action-comedy film adaptation of the classic TV series, starring Steve Carell as an inept secret agent alongside Anne Hathaway.
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B.
Among People
Among People is an alternative title for the film "In the World."
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C.
Genius Loves Company
Genius Loves Company is a Grammy-winning 2004 duets album by Ray Charles featuring collaborations with numerous prominent artists across jazz, soul, and pop.
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D.
The Satisfied People
"The Satisfied People" is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a notable role.
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E.
Happy People
"Happy People" is an upbeat R&B song by R. Kelly known for its feel-good, dance-oriented vibe and popularity at parties and celebrations.
- 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: Smart People Target entity description: Smart People is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a widowed, self-absorbed literature professor whose life is upended by unexpected family and romantic developments.
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A.
Get Smart
Get Smart is a 2008 action-comedy film adaptation of the classic TV series, starring Steve Carell as an inept secret agent alongside Anne Hathaway.
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B.
Among People
Among People is an alternative title for the film "In the World."
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C.
Genius Loves Company
Genius Loves Company is a Grammy-winning 2004 duets album by Ray Charles featuring collaborations with numerous prominent artists across jazz, soul, and pop.
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D.
The Satisfied People
"The Satisfied People" is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a notable role.
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E.
Happy People
"Happy People" is an upbeat R&B song by R. Kelly known for its feel-good, dance-oriented vibe and popularity at parties and celebrations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| character |
Chuck Wetherhold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Wetherhold NERFINISHED ⓘ Janet Hartigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lawrence Wetherhold NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Wetherhold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Tami Reiker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Noam Murro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Miramax Films
ⓘ
Paramount Vantage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert Frazen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
romantic comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family dysfunction
ⓘ
grief ⓘ intellectualism ⓘ second chances in love ⓘ |
| leadCharacterField | literature ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | college professor ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
family relationships
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ widowed literature professor ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nuno Bettencourt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
academic life
ⓘ
midlife crisis ⓘ personal growth ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Bridget Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Costigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Groundswell Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2008-04-11 ⓘ |
| runtime | 95 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Mark Jude Poirier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Pittsburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Ashton Holmes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christine Lahti NERFINISHED ⓘ Dennis Quaid NERFINISHED ⓘ Elliot Page NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Jessica Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Haden Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereLocation | Sundance Film Festival 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: Smart People Description of subject: Smart People is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a widowed, self-absorbed literature professor whose life is upended by unexpected family and romantic developments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.