Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is a 1995 slapstick comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an eccentric pet detective on a mission in Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7005392 — 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: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Context triple: [Sophie Okonedo, notableWork, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls]
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A.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an eccentric private investigator who specializes in locating missing animals.
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B.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
"We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" is a 1993 animated family film about intelligent, talking dinosaurs brought to modern-day New York City, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio.
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C.
Encino Man
Encino Man is a 1992 comedy film about two high school students who discover and befriend a frozen prehistoric caveman in suburban California.
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D.
Garfield: The Movie
Garfield: The Movie is a 2004 live-action/CGI family comedy film adaptation of the popular comic strip about a lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat.
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E.
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 family sci-fi comedy film and sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, in which a scientist accidentally causes his toddler son to grow to gigantic proportions.
- 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: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Target entity description: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is a 1995 slapstick comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an eccentric pet detective on a mission in Africa.
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A.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an eccentric private investigator who specializes in locating missing animals.
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B.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
"We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" is a 1993 animated family film about intelligent, talking dinosaurs brought to modern-day New York City, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio.
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C.
Encino Man
Encino Man is a 1992 comedy film about two high school students who discover and befriend a frozen prehistoric caveman in suburban California.
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D.
Garfield: The Movie
Garfield: The Movie is a 2004 live-action/CGI family comedy film adaptation of the popular comic strip about a lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat.
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E.
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 family sci-fi comedy film and sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, in which a scientist accidentally causes his toddler son to grow to gigantic proportions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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slapstick comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ace Ventura character ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | ~212000000 USD ⓘ |
| character | Ace Ventura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Don Zimmerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Steve Oedekerk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Steinkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
South Carolina
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
slapstick ⓘ |
| hasGenre | adventure comedy ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | pet detective ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Robert Folk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | over-the-top physical comedy by Jim Carrey ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Ace Ventura film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Ace Ventura travels to Africa to find a missing sacred white bat and prevent a tribal war. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
David Nicksay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gary Barber NERFINISHED ⓘ James G. Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Morgan Creek Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1995-11-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Steve Oedekerk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bob Gunton
NERFINISHED
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Ian McNeice NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Callow NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophie Okonedo NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Steve Oedekerk 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: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Description of subject: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is a 1995 slapstick comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an eccentric pet detective on a mission in Africa.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.