Harvard Man (film)
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Harvard Man is a 2001 dark comedy crime film about a college basketball player who becomes entangled in gambling, the mob, and the FBI after agreeing to fix a game.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harvard Man (film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6444472 — 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: Harvard Man (film) Context triple: [Adrian Grenier, appearedIn, Harvard Man (film)]
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A.
Master Man
Master Man is a Nazi supervillain in Marvel Comics, often portrayed as a physically enhanced adversary of the World War II–era superhero team the Invaders.
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B.
The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film about high school students who discover their teachers are being taken over by alien parasites.
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C.
Hombre (film)
Hombre is a 1967 Western film starring Paul Newman, adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel about a white man raised by Apaches who confronts racism and moral conflict during a stagecoach robbery.
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D.
Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out is a 1988 sports drama film that chronicles the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which Chicago White Sox players conspired to fix the World Series.
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E.
Better Man
"Better Man" is one of Pearl Jam's most popular and enduring rock ballads, known for its emotional lyrics about a troubled relationship and frequent inclusion in the band's live performances.
- 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: Harvard Man (film) Target entity description: Harvard Man is a 2001 dark comedy crime film about a college basketball player who becomes entangled in gambling, the mob, and the FBI after agreeing to fix a game.
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A.
Master Man
Master Man is a Nazi supervillain in Marvel Comics, often portrayed as a physically enhanced adversary of the World War II–era superhero team the Invaders.
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B.
The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film about high school students who discover their teachers are being taken over by alien parasites.
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C.
Hombre (film)
Hombre is a 1967 Western film starring Paul Newman, adapted from Elmore Leonard’s novel about a white man raised by Apaches who confronts racism and moral conflict during a stagecoach robbery.
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D.
Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out is a 1988 sports drama film that chronicles the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which Chicago White Sox players conspired to fix the World Series.
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E.
Better Man
"Better Man" is one of Pearl Jam's most popular and enduring rock ballads, known for its emotional lyrics about a troubled relationship and frequent inclusion in the band's live performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Adrian Grenier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Al Franken NERFINISHED ⓘ Andrew McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Stoltz NERFINISHED ⓘ Gianni Russo NERFINISHED ⓘ Joey Lauren Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Blanchard NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Gayheart NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Michelle Gellar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy |
Alan Jensen – Adrian Grenier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chesney Courtland – Joey Lauren Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Cindy Bandolini – Sarah Michelle Gellar NERFINISHED ⓘ Coach – Ray Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Cousin Joey – Gianni Russo NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelly – Rebecca Gayheart NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor – Al Franken NERFINISHED ⓘ Teddy – Eric Stoltz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | James Toback NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresDrugUse | LSD ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasSubject | basketball game fixing ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Sometimes it takes a little acid to see the truth. ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Alan Jensen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
FBI investigation
ⓘ
college sports corruption ⓘ gambling ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A college basketball player agrees to fix a game and becomes entangled with gambling, the mob, and the FBI. ⓘ |
| productionType | independent film ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | college basketball player ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| setting |
Harvard University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to early 2000s ⓘ |
| title | Harvard Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | James Toback 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: Harvard Man (film) Description of subject: Harvard Man is a 2001 dark comedy crime film about a college basketball player who becomes entangled in gambling, the mob, and the FBI after agreeing to fix a game.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.