Eighth Grade
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Eighth Grade is a 2018 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Bo Burnham that follows a shy teenage girl navigating the anxieties of modern adolescence and social media during her final week of middle school.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eighth Grade canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6527003 — 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: Eighth Grade Context triple: [IAC Films, notableWork, Eighth Grade]
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A.
Middle School
Middle School is an educational stage typically covering early adolescent grades between primary/elementary school and high/secondary school.
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B.
Junior
Junior is the protagonist of the novel "Love" by Toni Morrison, around whom the story’s complex relationships and themes of desire, memory, and power revolve.
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Junior
Junior is a 1994 comedy film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a scientist who becomes pregnant as part of an experimental fertility project.
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D.
Year VIII
Year VIII is the eighth year of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late 1799–1800, during which Napoleon Bonaparte established the Consulate and consolidated his political power in France.
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E.
Young High School
Young High School is an educational institution serving secondary-level students in the community of Young.
- 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: Eighth Grade Target entity description: Eighth Grade is a 2018 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Bo Burnham that follows a shy teenage girl navigating the anxieties of modern adolescence and social media during her final week of middle school.
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A.
Middle School
Middle School is an educational stage typically covering early adolescent grades between primary/elementary school and high/secondary school.
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B.
Junior
Junior is the protagonist of the novel "Love" by Toni Morrison, around whom the story’s complex relationships and themes of desire, memory, and power revolve.
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C.
Junior
Junior is a 1994 comedy film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a scientist who becomes pregnant as part of an experimental fertility project.
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D.
Year VIII
Year VIII is the eighth year of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late 1799–1800, during which Napoleon Bonaparte established the Consulate and consolidated his political power in France.
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E.
Young High School
Young High School is an educational institution serving secondary-level students in the community of Young.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Elsie Fisher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emily Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Hechinger NERFINISHED ⓘ Imani Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Jake Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Andrew Wehde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Anna Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Bo Burnham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | A24 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jennifer Lilly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | a shy teenage girl in her final week of middle school ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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coming-of-age film ⓘ teen film ⓘ |
| leadActor | Elsie Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kayla Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
internet culture
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modern adolescence ⓘ self-esteem ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Anna Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
adolescence
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anxiety ⓘ social media ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of social media use by teenagers
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realistic portrayal of middle school anxiety ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 2018-01-19 ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | A24 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | independent film ⓘ |
| protagonist | Kayla Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2018-01-19 ⓘ |
| ratingSystem |
MPAA film rating system
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surface form:
MPAA
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| releaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 93 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bo Burnham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| setting | suburban United States ⓘ |
| stars | Elsie Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDate | 2018-07-13 ⓘ |
| writer | Bo Burnham 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: Eighth Grade Description of subject: Eighth Grade is a 2018 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Bo Burnham that follows a shy teenage girl navigating the anxieties of modern adolescence and social media during her final week of middle school.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.