Cabin Boy
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Cabin Boy is a 1994 surreal comedy film starring Chris Elliott as a naive man who ends up on a rough fishing vessel, known for its offbeat humor and cult following.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cabin Boy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6804550 — 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: Cabin Boy Context triple: [Ann Magnuson, notableWork, Cabin Boy]
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Captain Hates the Sea
The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 American comedy film written by Guy Bolton that follows a motley group of passengers aboard an ocean liner, blending farce, crime, and romance.
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C.
The Ship Who Sang
The Ship Who Sang is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey about a severely disabled girl whose brain is integrated into a starship, exploring themes of identity, autonomy, and humanity.
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Steve Yzerman, the longtime Detroit Red Wings star and Hall of Fame center renowned for his leadership and three Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is a 2017 German war drama film directed by Robert Schwentke that portrays a German deserter who assumes a Nazi officer’s identity during the final days of World War II.
- 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: Cabin Boy Target entity description: Cabin Boy is a 1994 surreal comedy film starring Chris Elliott as a naive man who ends up on a rough fishing vessel, known for its offbeat humor and cult following.
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Captain Hates the Sea
The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 American comedy film written by Guy Bolton that follows a motley group of passengers aboard an ocean liner, blending farce, crime, and romance.
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C.
The Ship Who Sang
The Ship Who Sang is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey about a severely disabled girl whose brain is integrated into a starship, exploring themes of identity, autonomy, and humanity.
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Steve Yzerman, the longtime Detroit Red Wings star and Hall of Fame center renowned for his leadership and three Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is a 2017 German war drama film directed by Robert Schwentke that portrays a German deserter who assumes a Nazi officer’s identity during the final days of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
surreal comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | characters from the television series Get a Life ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercial failure ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Steve Yaconelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cultStatus | cult film ⓘ |
| director | Adam Resnick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | James R. Symons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCameo | David Letterman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme | fish-out-of-water comedy ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nathaniel Mayweather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Steve Bartek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
offbeat humor
ⓘ
surreal style ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A naive, snobbish man mistakenly ends up working on a rough fishing vessel bound for Hawaii. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Chris Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Tim Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| ratingMPAA | PG-13 ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1994-01-07 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Adam Resnick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
ocean
ⓘ
ship ⓘ |
| starring |
Alfred Molina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andy Richter NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Doyle-Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Brion James NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ James Gammon NERFINISHED ⓘ Melora Walters NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Starr NERFINISHED ⓘ Ritch Brinkley NERFINISHED ⓘ Russ Tamblyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Adam Resnick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Elliott 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: Cabin Boy Description of subject: Cabin Boy is a 1994 surreal comedy film starring Chris Elliott as a naive man who ends up on a rough fishing vessel, known for its offbeat humor and cult following.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.