Ithaca
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Ithaca is a 2015 American drama film, adapted from William Saroyan’s novel “The Human Comedy,” that marks Meg Ryan’s feature directorial debut and stars Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, and Tom Hanks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ithaca canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7746351 — 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: Ithaca Context triple: [Meg Ryan, directed, Ithaca]
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Ithaca
Ithaca is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, traditionally identified as the legendary home of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
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B.
Ithaca metropolitan area
The Ithaca metropolitan area is a small metropolitan region in central New York State centered on the city of Ithaca and home to institutions like Cornell University and Ithaca College.
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Town of Ithaca, New York
The Town of Ithaca, New York is a suburban municipality in Tompkins County that surrounds the City of Ithaca and is home to much of the area’s residential neighborhoods and natural gorges.
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D.
Utica
Utica was an ancient Phoenician colony in North Africa that became one of the earliest and most important urban centers in the western Mediterranean.
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E.
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York is a small city in upstate New York known as a former manufacturing hub and home to Binghamton University, located near the Pennsylvania border in the state's Southern Tier.
- 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: Ithaca Target entity description: Ithaca is a 2015 American drama film, adapted from William Saroyan’s novel “The Human Comedy,” that marks Meg Ryan’s feature directorial debut and stars Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, and Tom Hanks.
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A.
Ithaca
Ithaca is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, traditionally identified as the legendary home of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
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B.
Ithaca metropolitan area
The Ithaca metropolitan area is a small metropolitan region in central New York State centered on the city of Ithaca and home to institutions like Cornell University and Ithaca College.
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C.
Town of Ithaca, New York
The Town of Ithaca, New York is a suburban municipality in Tompkins County that surrounds the City of Ithaca and is home to much of the area’s residential neighborhoods and natural gorges.
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D.
Utica
Utica was an ancient Phoenician colony in North Africa that became one of the earliest and most important urban centers in the western Mediterranean.
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E.
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York is a small city in upstate New York known as a former manufacturing hub and home to Binghamton University, located near the Pennsylvania border in the state's Southern Tier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | William Saroyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Human Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Andrew Dunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Meg Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Momentum Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | John F. Lyons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasSupportingRoleBy |
Jack Quaid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sam Shepard NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Homer Macauley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marksDirectorialDebutOf | Meg Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Mellencamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
coming-of-age
ⓘ
effects of war on the home front ⓘ family relationships ⓘ |
| producer |
Gabrielle Y. Burton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janet Brenner NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Hibiscus Pictures
NERFINISHED
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Playtone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1943 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Erik Jendresen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | fictional town of Ithaca, California ⓘ |
| settingTime | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alex Neustaedter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christine Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Gabriel Basso NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamish Linklater NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Quaid NERFINISHED ⓘ Lois Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ Meg Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Molly Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Shepard NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDateUS | September 9, 2016 ⓘ |
| titleCharacterSharesNameWith | Ithaca, California (fictional town) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereEvent | Middleburg Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereYear | 2015 ⓘ |
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: Ithaca Description of subject: Ithaca is a 2015 American drama film, adapted from William Saroyan’s novel “The Human Comedy,” that marks Meg Ryan’s feature directorial debut and stars Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, and Tom Hanks.
Referenced by (3)
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