Solitary Man
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Solitary Man is a 2009 American comedy-drama film starring Michael Douglas as a once-successful car dealer facing the consequences of his self-destructive behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Solitary Man canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8669535 — 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: Solitary Man Context triple: [David Levien, coWriterOf, Solitary Man]
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A.
Solitary Man
"Solitary Man" is a 1966 pop-rock song by Neil Diamond that became one of his signature early hits and has since been widely covered by other artists.
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B.
A Man Alone
A Man Alone is a 1955 American Western film starring Ray Milland as a mysterious gunslinger entangled in corruption and violence in a small frontier town.
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C.
The Lonely Guy
The Lonely Guy is a 1984 romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin as a newly single man navigating loneliness and modern dating in New York City.
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D.
The Lonely
"The Lonely" is a 1959 episode of the anthology series The Twilight Zone about a convicted man exiled to a remote asteroid who develops a profound emotional bond with a female robot companion.
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E.
Man Is Not Alone
Man Is Not Alone is a seminal work of Jewish philosophy by Abraham Joshua Heschel that explores humanity’s search for God, faith, and the experience of the divine in modern life.
- 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: Solitary Man Target entity description: Solitary Man is a 2009 American comedy-drama film starring Michael Douglas as a once-successful car dealer facing the consequences of his self-destructive behavior.
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A.
Solitary Man
"Solitary Man" is a 1966 pop-rock song by Neil Diamond that became one of his signature early hits and has since been widely covered by other artists.
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B.
A Man Alone
A Man Alone is a 1955 American Western film starring Ray Milland as a mysterious gunslinger entangled in corruption and violence in a small frontier town.
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C.
The Lonely Guy
The Lonely Guy is a 1984 romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin as a newly single man navigating loneliness and modern dating in New York City.
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D.
The Lonely
"The Lonely" is a 1959 episode of the anthology series The Twilight Zone about a convicted man exiled to a remote asteroid who develops a profound emotional bond with a female robot companion.
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E.
Man Is Not Alone
Man Is Not Alone is a seminal work of Jewish philosophy by Abraham Joshua Heschel that explores humanity’s search for God, faith, and the experience of the divine in modern life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Ben Kalmen – Michael Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Alik Sakharov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Brian Koppelman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Levien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Anchor Bay Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Sharon Gill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
aging
ⓘ
infidelity ⓘ redemption ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ben Kalmen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A once-successful car dealer faces the consequences of his self-destructive behavior in his personal and professional life. ⓘ |
| producer |
Paul Schiff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Soderbergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| releaseEvent | Toronto International Film Festival 2009 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 90 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Danny DeVito
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Imogen Poots NERFINISHED ⓘ Jenna Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesse Eisenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary-Louise Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Sarandon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Brian Koppelman 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: Solitary Man Description of subject: Solitary Man is a 2009 American comedy-drama film starring Michael Douglas as a once-successful car dealer facing the consequences of his self-destructive behavior.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.