North
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North is a 1994 family comedy film directed by Rob Reiner, based on Alan Zweibel's novel about a boy who travels the world in search of new parents.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| North canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6281095 — 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: North Context triple: [Jussie Smollett, appearedIn, North]
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A.
North
North is Matchbox Twenty’s 2012 studio album that marked their return after a decade, featuring a polished pop-rock sound and the hit single "She's So Mean."
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B.
North
North is an English surname historically associated with several notable figures in British politics and society.
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C.
North
North is a 1975 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that explores themes of Irish history, violence, and identity through mythic and archaeological imagery.
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D.
the North
The North was the collective term for the U.S. states that remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War, characterized by industrialization and opposition to the expansion of slavery.
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E.
The North
The North is a vast, harsh, and sparsely populated region in the world of "Game of Thrones"/"A Song of Ice and Fire," known for its cold climate, fiercely independent people, and rule by House Stark from Winterfell.
- 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: North Target entity description: North is a 1994 family comedy film directed by Rob Reiner, based on Alan Zweibel's novel about a boy who travels the world in search of new parents.
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A.
North
North is an English surname historically associated with several notable figures in British politics and society.
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B.
North
North is a 1975 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that explores themes of Irish history, violence, and identity through mythic and archaeological imagery.
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C.
North
North is Matchbox Twenty’s 2012 studio album that marked their return after a decade, featuring a polished pop-rock sound and the hit single "She's So Mean."
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D.
the North
The North was the collective term for the U.S. states that remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War, characterized by industrialization and opposition to the expansion of slavery.
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E.
The North
The North is a vast, harsh, and sparsely populated region in the world of "Game of Thrones"/"A Song of Ice and Fire," known for its cold climate, fiercely independent people, and rule by House Stark from Winterfell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
North: The Tale of a 9-Year-Old Boy Who Becomes a Free Agent and Travels the World in Search of the Perfect Parents
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel by Alan Zweibel ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
Alan Silvestri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Elswit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Rob Reiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert Leighton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresNarrationBy | Bruce Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
child independence
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ search for identity ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Marc Shaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being widely regarded as one of Rob Reiner's worst-reviewed films
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negative critical reception ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
1990s American comedy films
ⓘ
1990s American family films ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A gifted boy becomes a free agent and travels the world in search of new parents after feeling unappreciated by his own. ⓘ |
| producer |
Alan Zweibel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rob Reiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1994-07-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alan Zweibel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andrew Scheinman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary 1990s ⓘ |
| starring |
Abe Vigoda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alan Arkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Bruce Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Aykroyd NERFINISHED ⓘ Elijah Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Faith Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ John Ritter NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Lovitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia Louis-Dreyfus NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathy Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ Reba McEntire 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: North Description of subject: North is a 1994 family comedy film directed by Rob Reiner, based on Alan Zweibel's novel about a boy who travels the world in search of new parents.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.