Tex
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Tex is a 1982 coming-of-age drama film based on S. E. Hinton’s novel, following a teenage boy navigating family struggles and personal growth in rural Oklahoma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7044317 — 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: Tex Context triple: [Matt Dillon, notableWork, Tex]
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A.
TEX
TEX is the standard abbreviation used for the Texas Legends, an NBA G League basketball team based in Frisco, Texas.
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B.
Tek
Tek is a brand associated with Tektronix, known for electronic test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal analyzers.
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Tem
Tem is an ancient Egyptian creator god, often regarded as a form or aspect of Atum associated with the setting sun and the completion of creation.
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Ty
Ty is the first name of American musician and songwriter Ty Segall, known for his prolific work in garage and psychedelic rock.
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E.
tet
tet is the ISO 639-1 language code for Tetum, an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor.
- 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: Tex Target entity description: Tex is a 1982 coming-of-age drama film based on S. E. Hinton’s novel, following a teenage boy navigating family struggles and personal growth in rural Oklahoma.
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A.
TEX
TEX is the standard abbreviation used for the Texas Legends, an NBA G League basketball team based in Frisco, Texas.
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B.
Tek
Tek is a brand associated with Tektronix, known for electronic test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal analyzers.
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C.
Tem
Tem is an ancient Egyptian creator god, often regarded as a form or aspect of Atum associated with the setting sun and the completion of creation.
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D.
Ty
Ty is the first name of American musician and songwriter Ty Segall, known for his prolific work in garage and psychedelic rock.
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E.
tet
tet is the ISO 639-1 language code for Tetum, an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Tex (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceMaterial | S. E. Hinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | S. E. Hinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Ric Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tim Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Buena Vista Distribution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Howard E. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tex McCormick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Pino Donaggio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | more mature themes for a Disney film at the time ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfTrend | 1980s S. E. Hinton film adaptations ⓘ |
| producer | Tim Zinnemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAgeGroup | teenager ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1982-07-30 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles S. Haas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tim Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingRegionType | rural area ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Ben Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bill McKinney NERFINISHED ⓘ Frances Lee McCain NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Metzler NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Dillon NERFINISHED ⓘ Meg Tilly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
brotherhood
ⓘ
coming of age ⓘ family struggles ⓘ personal growth ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | late 20th century ⓘ |
| title | Tex 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: Tex Description of subject: Tex is a 1982 coming-of-age drama film based on S. E. Hinton’s novel, following a teenage boy navigating family struggles and personal growth in rural Oklahoma.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.