Tropic Thunder
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Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action-comedy film that parodies Hollywood war movies and the film industry, featuring an ensemble cast including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560730 — 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: Tropic Thunder Context triple: [Robert Downey Jr., notableWork, Tropic Thunder]
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The Hangover
The Hangover is a 2009 comedy film about a group of friends who must retrace their steps after a wild, forgotten bachelor party in Las Vegas to find their missing groom.
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B.
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses is a 2011 dark comedy film about three friends who plot to murder their abusive employers, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis.
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The Hangover Part III
The Hangover Part III is a 2013 American comedy film that concludes the Hangover trilogy, following the misadventures of the "Wolfpack" on a darker, crime-tinged road trip.
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D.
The Hangover Part II
The Hangover Part II is a 2011 comedy film and sequel to The Hangover, following the same group of friends as they experience another disastrous pre-wedding adventure, this time in Bangkok.
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 satirical Western comedy film directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane, known for its irreverent humor and parody of classic frontier tropes.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tropic Thunder Target entity description: Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action-comedy film that parodies Hollywood war movies and the film industry, featuring an ensemble cast including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr.
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A.
The Hangover
The Hangover is a 2009 comedy film about a group of friends who must retrace their steps after a wild, forgotten bachelor party in Las Vegas to find their missing groom.
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B.
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses is a 2011 dark comedy film about three friends who plot to murder their abusive employers, starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis.
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C.
The Hangover Part III
The Hangover Part III is a 2013 American comedy film that concludes the Hangover trilogy, following the misadventures of the "Wolfpack" on a darker, crime-tinged road trip.
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D.
The Hangover Part II
The Hangover Part II is a 2011 comedy film and sequel to The Hangover, following the same group of friends as they experience another disastrous pre-wedding adventure, this time in Bangkok.
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E.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 satirical Western comedy film directed by and starring Seth MacFarlane, known for its irreverent humor and parody of classic frontier tropes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Tropic Thunder Description of subject: Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action-comedy film that parodies Hollywood war movies and the film industry, featuring an ensemble cast including Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brandon T. Jackson
this entity surface form:
Tropic Thunder (in-universe war movie)
this entity surface form:
Tropic Thunder franchise
this entity surface form:
Tropic Thunder universe
this entity surface form:
Tropic Thunder (in-universe film-within-a-film)
this entity surface form:
Tropic Thunder film-within-a-film platoon