Larry Crowne
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Larry Crowne is a 2011 romantic comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Tom Hanks alongside Julia Roberts, about a middle-aged man who reinvents his life by going back to college after losing his job.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Crowne canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8402114 — 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: Larry Crowne Context triple: [Playtone, notableWork, Larry Crowne]
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A.
Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy is the pompous yet lovable 1970s San Diego news anchor protagonist of the comedy film "Anchorman," known for his over-the-top personality and catchphrases.
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B.
Buddie Guillory
Buddie Guillory is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Oceaneering International, a major company in the offshore energy and subsea engineering industry.
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C.
John McGiver
John McGiver was an American character actor known for his distinctive, pompous demeanor and precise diction in numerous films and television shows of the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Nick Swardson
Nick Swardson is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his offbeat characters and frequent collaborations with Adam Sandler in various comedy films and TV shows.
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E.
Alvy Singer
Alvy Singer is the neurotic, introspective New York comedian portrayed by Woody Allen in the film "Annie Hall."
- 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: Larry Crowne Target entity description: Larry Crowne is a 2011 romantic comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Tom Hanks alongside Julia Roberts, about a middle-aged man who reinvents his life by going back to college after losing his job.
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A.
Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy is the pompous yet lovable 1970s San Diego news anchor protagonist of the comedy film "Anchorman," known for his over-the-top personality and catchphrases.
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B.
Buddie Guillory
Buddie Guillory is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Oceaneering International, a major company in the offshore energy and subsea engineering industry.
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C.
John McGiver
John McGiver was an American character actor known for his distinctive, pompous demeanor and precise diction in numerous films and television shows of the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Nick Swardson
Nick Swardson is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his offbeat characters and frequent collaborations with Adam Sandler in various comedy films and TV shows.
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E.
Alvy Singer
Alvy Singer is the neurotic, introspective New York comedian portrayed by Woody Allen in the film "Annie Hall."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematography | Philippe Rousselot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Steven Rosenblum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
education
ⓘ
midlife reinvention ⓘ romance ⓘ unemployment ⓘ |
| leadFemaleCharacter | Mercedes Tainot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadFemalePortrayedBy | Julia Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Larry Crowne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A middle-aged man loses his job and reinvents his life by going back to college. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Gary Goetzman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Playtone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vendôme Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2011-07-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Nia Vardalos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | community college ⓘ |
| starring |
Bryan Cranston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cedric the Entertainer NERFINISHED ⓘ George Takei NERFINISHED ⓘ Gugu Mbatha-Raw NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ Rami Malek NERFINISHED ⓘ Taraji P. Henson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilmer Valderrama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Larry Crowne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Nia Vardalos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Hanks 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: Larry Crowne Description of subject: Larry Crowne is a 2011 romantic comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Tom Hanks alongside Julia Roberts, about a middle-aged man who reinvents his life by going back to college after losing his job.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.