Hardball
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Hardball is a 2001 sports drama film starring Keanu Reeves as a gambler who coaches a youth baseball team in a Chicago housing project.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hardball canonical | 2 |
| Hardball (2001 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8969445 — 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: Hardball Context triple: [John Gatins, notableWork, Hardball]
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A.
Ballin'
"Ballin'" is a hit hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch, known for its melodic flow, catchy hook, and widespread commercial success.
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B.
Ballin
"Ballin" is a track by Snoop Dogg from his 2002 album "Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss," showcasing his signature West Coast hip-hop style.
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C.
Have a Ball
"Have a Ball" is the first full-length album by punk rock cover supergroup Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, featuring fast, melodic punk renditions of classic pop songs.
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D.
Tell to Win
"Tell to Win" is a business and leadership book by Hollywood executive Peter Guber that explains how strategic storytelling can be used to persuade, inspire, and drive success.
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E.
Blackball
Blackball is a track from DJ Khaled’s 2013 hip-hop album "Suffering from Success."
- 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: Hardball Target entity description: Hardball is a 2001 sports drama film starring Keanu Reeves as a gambler who coaches a youth baseball team in a Chicago housing project.
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A.
Ballin'
"Ballin'" is a hit hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch, known for its melodic flow, catchy hook, and widespread commercial success.
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B.
Ballin
"Ballin" is a track by Snoop Dogg from his 2002 album "Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss," showcasing his signature West Coast hip-hop style.
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C.
Have a Ball
"Have a Ball" is the first full-length album by punk rock cover supergroup Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, featuring fast, melodic punk renditions of classic pop songs.
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D.
Tell to Win
"Tell to Win" is a business and leadership book by Hollywood executive Peter Guber that explains how strategic storytelling can be used to persuade, inspire, and drive success.
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E.
Blackball
Blackball is a track from DJ Khaled’s 2013 hip-hop album "Suffering from Success."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Hardball: A Season in the Projects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Daniel Coyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | J. Clark Mathis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Brian Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Nena Hsu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Niven Howie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSport | baseball ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
sports film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Brian J. White
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
D. B. Sweeney NERFINISHED ⓘ DeWayne Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Diane Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ Graham Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ John Hawkes NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ Keanu Reeves NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael B. Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike McGlone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
gambling
ⓘ
mentorship ⓘ urban poverty ⓘ youth sports ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Conor O'Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Keanu Reeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Isham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A gambler agrees to coach a youth baseball team from a Chicago housing project to pay off his debts. ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Robbins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Tollin NERFINISHED ⓘ Tova Laiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Paramount Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tollin/Robbins Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 2001-09-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Gatins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago housing projects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars | Keanu Reeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Hardball 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: Hardball Description of subject: Hardball is a 2001 sports drama film starring Keanu Reeves as a gambler who coaches a youth baseball team in a Chicago housing project.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hardball (2001 film)