Barfly
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Barfly is a 1987 semi-autobiographical drama film depicting the hard-drinking, bohemian life of a Los Angeles barfly, written by Charles Bukowski and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barfly canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6351100 — 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: Barfly Context triple: [Charles Bukowski, wroteScreenplayFor, Barfly]
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A.
Honey Boy
Honey Boy is a 2019 semi-autobiographical drama film written by and starring Shia LaBeouf, depicting a child actor’s turbulent relationship with his father.
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B.
Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank is a funk-influenced, darkly humorous Pearl Jam song known for its quirky lyrics and jam-band style experimentation.
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C.
Thunderbitch
Thunderbitch is a rock side project and band fronted by Alabama Shakes singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, known for its raw, garage-rock sound and theatrical persona.
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D.
Blow
Blow is a 2001 crime drama film that chronicles the rise and fall of American cocaine smuggler George Jung within the 1970s–1980s drug trade.
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E.
Side Show
Side Show is a Broadway musical by composer Henry Krieger that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton in the world of 1930s sideshow entertainment.
- 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: Barfly Target entity description: Barfly is a 1987 semi-autobiographical drama film depicting the hard-drinking, bohemian life of a Los Angeles barfly, written by Charles Bukowski and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
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A.
Honey Boy
Honey Boy is a 2019 semi-autobiographical drama film written by and starring Shia LaBeouf, depicting a child actor’s turbulent relationship with his father.
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B.
Dirty Frank
Dirty Frank is a funk-influenced, darkly humorous Pearl Jam song known for its quirky lyrics and jam-band style experimentation.
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C.
Thunderbitch
Thunderbitch is a rock side project and band fronted by Alabama Shakes singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, known for its raw, garage-rock sound and theatrical persona.
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D.
Blow
Blow is a 2001 crime drama film that chronicles the rise and fall of American cocaine smuggler George Jung within the 1970s–1980s drug trade.
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E.
Side Show
Side Show is a Broadway musical by composer Henry Krieger that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton in the world of 1930s sideshow entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | writings of Charles Bukowski ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alice Krige
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Danny Trejo NERFINISHED ⓘ Faye Dunaway NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Stallone NERFINISHED ⓘ J. C. Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Nance NERFINISHED ⓘ Mickey Rourke NERFINISHED ⓘ Roberta Bassin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandy Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterBasedOn | Charles Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Robbie Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Barbet Schroeder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Cannon Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Eva Gardos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alcoholism
ⓘ
bohemian lifestyle ⓘ poverty ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Henry Chinaski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jack Nitzsche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Charles Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Depicts the hard-drinking, bohemian life of a Los Angeles barfly and writer Henry Chinaski. ⓘ |
| producer | Barbet Schroeder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | The Cannon Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1987-10-02 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runtime | 99 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Charles Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| starring |
Faye Dunaway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mickey Rourke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Barfly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Charles Bukowski 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: Barfly Description of subject: Barfly is a 1987 semi-autobiographical drama film depicting the hard-drinking, bohemian life of a Los Angeles barfly, written by Charles Bukowski and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frank Stallone