The Baxter
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The Baxter is a 2005 romantic comedy film that parodies traditional love-triangle tropes by focusing on the jilted "nice guy" usually left behind in such stories.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Baxter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8904743 — 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: The Baxter Context triple: [Michael Ian Black, hasPartIn, The Baxter]
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A.
The Quigley
The Quigley is a notorious water obstacle course at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, known for its muddy trenches, submerged passages, and physically demanding conditions.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
The Brack
The Brack is a prominent mountain in the Arrochar Alps of the Scottish Highlands, popular with hikers and climbers for its rugged terrain and scenic views over Loch Long.
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D.
The Ralph
The Ralph is a popular nickname for Highmark Stadium, the home field of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York.
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E.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
- 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: The Baxter Target entity description: The Baxter is a 2005 romantic comedy film that parodies traditional love-triangle tropes by focusing on the jilted "nice guy" usually left behind in such stories.
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A.
The Quigley
The Quigley is a notorious water obstacle course at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, known for its muddy trenches, submerged passages, and physically demanding conditions.
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B.
The Peg
The Peg is a colloquial nickname for Winnipeg, the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
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C.
The Brack
The Brack is a prominent mountain in the Arrochar Alps of the Scottish Highlands, popular with hikers and climbers for its rugged terrain and scenic views over Loch Long.
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D.
The Ralph
The Ralph is a popular nickname for Highmark Stadium, the home field of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, New York.
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E.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematography | Tim Orr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Michael Showalter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | IFC Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Jacob Craycroft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | nice guy left behind ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTagline | A romantic comedy for the rest of us ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
second chances in romance
ⓘ
self-discovery ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Elliot Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | The 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | male protagonist ⓘ |
| parodies |
love-triangle narratives
ⓘ
traditional romantic comedy tropes ⓘ |
| plotFocus | jilted nice guy in a love triangle ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Showalter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Celine Rattray
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Daniela Taplin Lundberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Galt Niederhoffer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Plum Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2005-08-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Showalter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| starring |
Catherine Lloyd Burns
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ Justin Theroux NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Ian Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Showalter NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Rudd NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Dinklage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 2000s ⓘ |
| writer | Michael Showalter 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: The Baxter Description of subject: The Baxter is a 2005 romantic comedy film that parodies traditional love-triangle tropes by focusing on the jilted "nice guy" usually left behind in such stories.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Ian Black