Crooklyn
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Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film directed by Spike Lee that portrays a young girl's experiences growing up in a Brooklyn family in the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crooklyn canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7230075 — 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: Crooklyn Context triple: [Shelton Jackson Lee, notableWork, Crooklyn]
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A.
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest is a 2009 crime drama film that interweaves the stories of three troubled New York City police officers whose lives collide during a dangerous operation in Brooklyn.
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B.
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest is a track by Jay-Z from his debut album that features The Notorious B.I.G. and is known for its gritty lyrical back-and-forth between the two Brooklyn rappers.
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C.
Howard Beach
Howard Beach is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern part of Queens, New York City, known for its proximity to JFK Airport and its waterfront location along Jamaica Bay.
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D.
Going Back to Brooklyn
Going Back to Brooklyn is a folk album by American singer-songwriter Dave Van Ronk that showcases his distinctive storytelling and guitar style.
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E.
King of New York
King of New York is a 1990 neo-noir crime film directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken as a ruthless yet charismatic drug lord seeking to reclaim his power in New York City’s underworld.
- 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: Crooklyn Target entity description: Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film directed by Spike Lee that portrays a young girl's experiences growing up in a Brooklyn family in the 1970s.
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A.
Brooklyn's Finest
Brooklyn's Finest is a 2009 crime drama film that interweaves the stories of three troubled New York City police officers whose lives collide during a dangerous operation in Brooklyn.
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B.
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest is a track by Jay-Z from his debut album that features The Notorious B.I.G. and is known for its gritty lyrical back-and-forth between the two Brooklyn rappers.
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C.
Howard Beach
Howard Beach is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern part of Queens, New York City, known for its proximity to JFK Airport and its waterfront location along Jamaica Bay.
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D.
Going Back to Brooklyn
Going Back to Brooklyn is a folk album by American singer-songwriter Dave Van Ronk that showcases his distinctive storytelling and guitar style.
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E.
King of New York
King of New York is a 1990 neo-noir crime film directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken as a ruthless yet charismatic drug lord seeking to reclaim his power in New York City’s underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alfre Woodard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bokeem Woodbine NERFINISHED ⓘ David Patrick Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Delroy Lindo NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaiah Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Spike Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Vondie Curtis-Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Zelda Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur Jafa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
parent-child relationships
ⓘ
sibling relationships ⓘ urban African-American culture ⓘ |
| director | Spike Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Barry Alexander Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
ⓘ
coming-of-age film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Troy Carmichael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleSong | Crooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African-American family life
ⓘ
childhood in the 1970s ⓘ life in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Terence Blanchard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | young girl coming of age in a Brooklyn family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of a Black middle-class family in 1970s Brooklyn
ⓘ
use of a distorted visual effect in Southern scenes ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Spike Lee filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Spike Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Zelda Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1994-05-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Cinqué Lee
NERFINISHED
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Joie Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Spike Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1970s ⓘ |
| titleSongPerformedBy | The Crooklyn Dodgers 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: Crooklyn Description of subject: Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film directed by Spike Lee that portrays a young girl's experiences growing up in a Brooklyn family in the 1970s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shelton Jackson Lee