Tommy Callahan must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with Richard Hayden
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Tommy Boy is a 1995 comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade that follows a bumbling heir and his uptight coworker on a chaotic road trip to keep the family auto parts business from going under.
All labels observed (1)
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| Tommy Callahan must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with Richard Hayden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6814231 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Tommy Callahan must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with Richard Hayden Context triple: [Tommy Boy, mainPlot, Tommy Callahan must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with Richard Hayden]
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A.
Tommy Mullaney
Tommy Mullaney is a fictional character portrayed by John Spencer, best known as a gruff but skilled public defender on the television series L.A. Law.
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Tommy Wheeldon Jr.
Tommy Wheeldon Jr. is an English football manager and former player best known for leading Canadian Premier League side Cavalry FC.
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C.
Bobby Callahan
Bobby Callahan is an actor known for appearing in the Hardy Boys film "Out West with the Hardys."
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D.
James Callaway
James Callaway was an early 19th-century American frontiersman and militia officer, the grandson of Daniel Boone, who was killed in conflict with Native Americans during the War of 1812.
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E.
Tommy Donnelly in The Black Donnellys
Tommy Donnelly is the conflicted, morally torn leader of his Irish-American brothers in the crime drama series "The Black Donnellys," struggling to protect his family while being drawn deeper into organized crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Tommy Callahan must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with Richard Hayden Target entity description: Tommy Boy is a 1995 comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade that follows a bumbling heir and his uptight coworker on a chaotic road trip to keep the family auto parts business from going under.
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A.
Tommy Mullaney
Tommy Mullaney is a fictional character portrayed by John Spencer, best known as a gruff but skilled public defender on the television series L.A. Law.
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B.
Tommy Wheeldon Jr.
Tommy Wheeldon Jr. is an English football manager and former player best known for leading Canadian Premier League side Cavalry FC.
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C.
Bobby Callahan
Bobby Callahan is an actor known for appearing in the Hardy Boys film "Out West with the Hardys."
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D.
James Callaway
James Callaway was an early 19th-century American frontiersman and militia officer, the grandson of Daniel Boone, who was killed in conflict with Native Americans during the War of 1812.
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E.
Tommy Donnelly in The Black Donnellys
Tommy Donnelly is the conflicted, morally torn leader of his Irish-American brothers in the crime drama series "The Black Donnellys," struggling to protect his family while being drawn deeper into organized crime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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road comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bo Derek
NERFINISHED
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Brian Dennehy NERFINISHED ⓘ Chris Farley NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Aykroyd NERFINISHED ⓘ David Spade NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Lowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Beverly Barish-Burns
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Tom Callahan NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Barish NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Callahan III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Victor J. Kemper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Peter Segal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Kerr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
road movie ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Chris Farley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Spade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family business
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ personal growth ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | pairing of Chris Farley and David Spade ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A bumbling heir must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with his uptight coworker. ⓘ |
| producer | Lorne Michaels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Broadway Video
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1995-03-31 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bonnie Turner
NERFINISHED
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Fred Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Sandusky, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Chris Farley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Spade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Bonnie Turner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terry Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Tommy Boy 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: Tommy Callahan must save his late father’s auto parts company by going on a sales road trip with Richard Hayden Description of subject: Tommy Boy is a 1995 comedy film starring Chris Farley and David Spade that follows a bumbling heir and his uptight coworker on a chaotic road trip to keep the family auto parts business from going under.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.