My Favorite Year
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My Favorite Year is a 1982 comedy film that affectionately parodies early television variety shows, featuring Peter O'Toole as an aging, hard-drinking movie star guesting on a live TV program.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Favorite Year canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6305651 — 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: My Favorite Year Context triple: [Peter O'Toole, notableWork, My Favorite Year]
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A.
That Wonderful Year
That Wonderful Year was a nostalgic recurring segment on The Garry Moore Show that highlighted and celebrated notable events, music, and culture from specific past years.
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B.
Some Kind of Wonderful
"Some Kind of Wonderful" is a classic pop song co-written by Gerry Goffin that has been widely recorded and performed since the 1960s.
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C.
Some Kind of Wonderful
Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 teen romantic drama film written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch, known for its class-conscious love triangle and iconic 1980s soundtrack.
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D.
Father of Years
Father of Years is an epithet of the Canaanite high god El, emphasizing his role as an ancient, patriarchal deity associated with time and longevity.
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E.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
- 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: My Favorite Year Target entity description: My Favorite Year is a 1982 comedy film that affectionately parodies early television variety shows, featuring Peter O'Toole as an aging, hard-drinking movie star guesting on a live TV program.
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A.
That Wonderful Year
That Wonderful Year was a nostalgic recurring segment on The Garry Moore Show that highlighted and celebrated notable events, music, and culture from specific past years.
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B.
Some Kind of Wonderful
"Some Kind of Wonderful" is a classic pop song co-written by Gerry Goffin that has been widely recorded and performed since the 1960s.
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C.
Some Kind of Wonderful
Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 teen romantic drama film written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch, known for its class-conscious love triangle and iconic 1980s soundtrack.
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D.
Father of Years
Father of Years is an epithet of the Canaanite high god El, emphasizing his role as an ancient, patriarchal deity associated with time and longevity.
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E.
Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dennis Palumbo story ⓘ |
| character |
Alan Swann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Benjy Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gerald Hirschfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Richard Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | United States theatrical release ⓘ |
| editedBy | Richard Chew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live-action ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasAwardNominee | Peter O'Toole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | PG ⓘ |
| hasHomeMediaRelease |
Blu-ray
ⓘ
DVD ⓘ VHS ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | experiences of writers on Your Show of Shows ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Ralph Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | early television variety shows ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parodies | The Sid Caesar Show of Shows era of television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young TV writer must keep an aging, hard-drinking movie star sober and under control for a live television variety show appearance. ⓘ |
| portrays |
Mark Linn-Baker as Benjy Stone
ⓘ
Peter O'Toole as Alan Swann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Gruskoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Brooksfilms
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1982-10-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenDebutFor | Mark Linn-Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Dennis Palumbo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norman Steinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Bill Macy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cameron Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessica Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Bologna NERFINISHED ⓘ Lainie Kazan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Linn-Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter O'Toole 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: My Favorite Year Description of subject: My Favorite Year is a 1982 comedy film that affectionately parodies early television variety shows, featuring Peter O'Toole as an aging, hard-drinking movie star guesting on a live TV program.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.