Yes Man
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Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as a man who challenges himself to say "yes" to everything, with Zooey Deschanel in a prominent supporting role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yes Man canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6513132 — 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: Yes Man Context triple: [Zooey Deschanel, notableWork, Yes Man]
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A.
Oh Yes
"Oh Yes" is a song featured on Whitney Houston’s 1998 R&B/pop album *My Love Is Your Love*.
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B.
I'm the Man
"I'm the Man" is the 1979 new wave and punk-influenced second studio album by English musician Joe Jackson, featuring his hit single "It's Different for Girls."
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C.
Call the Man
"Call the Man" is a power ballad by Celine Dion, featured on her 1996 album *Falling into You*.
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D.
My Man
"My Man" is a classic torch song most famously performed by Barbra Streisand in the 1968 musical film *Funny Girl*.
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E.
Yes Please
"Yes Please" is a humorous and candid memoir by comedian and actress Amy Poehler, blending personal stories, life advice, and reflections on her career in comedy and television.
- 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: Yes Man Target entity description: Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as a man who challenges himself to say "yes" to everything, with Zooey Deschanel in a prominent supporting role.
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A.
Oh Yes
"Oh Yes" is a song featured on Whitney Houston’s 1998 R&B/pop album *My Love Is Your Love*.
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B.
I'm the Man
"I'm the Man" is the 1979 new wave and punk-influenced second studio album by English musician Joe Jackson, featuring his hit single "It's Different for Girls."
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C.
Call the Man
"Call the Man" is a power ballad by Celine Dion, featured on her 1996 album *Falling into You*.
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D.
My Man
"My Man" is a classic torch song most famously performed by Barbra Streisand in the 1968 musical film *Funny Girl*.
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E.
Yes Please
"Yes Please" is a humorous and candid memoir by comedian and actress Amy Poehler, blending personal stories, life advice, and reflections on her career in comedy and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Yes Man (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Danny Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercially successful ⓘ |
| character |
Allison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carl Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert D. Yeoman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Peyton Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | worldwide ⓘ |
| editedBy | Craig Alpert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasLiveMusicPerformanceByCharacter | Allison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorRole |
Jim Carrey as Carl Allen
ⓘ
Zooey Deschanel as Allison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | loan officer ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Lyle Workman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | self-help seminar commitment to say yes to everything ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man stuck in a negative routine transforms his life after committing to say yes to every opportunity. ⓘ |
| producer |
David Heyman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard D. Zanuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Village Roadshow Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | December 19, 2008 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 104 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Andrew Mogel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jarrad Paul NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Stoller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Bradley Cooper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ John Michael Higgins NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhys Darby NERFINISHED ⓘ Zooey Deschanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
positivity
ⓘ
self-improvement ⓘ taking risks ⓘ |
| title | Yes Man 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: Yes Man Description of subject: Yes Man is a 2008 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as a man who challenges himself to say "yes" to everything, with Zooey Deschanel in a prominent supporting role.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.