Pecker
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Pecker is a 1998 indie comedy film directed by John Waters about a young Baltimore photographer whose quirky snapshots unexpectedly bring him fame.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pecker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9217878 — 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: Pecker Context triple: [Edward Furlong, notableWork, Pecker]
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A.
Biglow
Biglow is a surname and variant spelling of "Bigelow," borne by various individuals and families, particularly in English-speaking countries.
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B.
The Front Page
The Front Page is a classic American stage comedy, later adapted into several films, that satirizes tabloid journalism through the frantic exploits of a newspaper editor and his star reporter.
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C.
Flim-Flam!
Flim-Flam! is a skeptical book by James Randi that critically examines and debunks claims of the paranormal, pseudoscience, and various forms of fraud.
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D.
Horse Feathers
Horse Feathers is a 1932 Marx Brothers comedy film known for its anarchic humor and satire of college life and American football.
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E.
Hollywood Liar
"Hollywood Liar" is a song featured on the album *Inside Story*, likely characterized by themes of deception and the darker side of fame.
- 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: Pecker Target entity description: Pecker is a 1998 indie comedy film directed by John Waters about a young Baltimore photographer whose quirky snapshots unexpectedly bring him fame.
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A.
Biglow
Biglow is a surname and variant spelling of "Bigelow," borne by various individuals and families, particularly in English-speaking countries.
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B.
The Front Page
The Front Page is a classic American stage comedy, later adapted into several films, that satirizes tabloid journalism through the frantic exploits of a newspaper editor and his star reporter.
-
C.
Flim-Flam!
Flim-Flam! is a skeptical book by James Randi that critically examines and debunks claims of the paranormal, pseudoscience, and various forms of fraud.
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D.
Horse Feathers
Horse Feathers is a 1932 Marx Brothers comedy film known for its anarchic humor and satire of college life and American football.
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E.
Hollywood Liar
"Hollywood Liar" is a song featured on the album *Inside Story*, likely characterized by themes of deception and the darker side of fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert M. Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Fine Line Features NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Janice Hampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Baltimore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmSubject |
art world
ⓘ
celebrity culture ⓘ fame ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| mainCharacterName | Pecker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | photographer ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stewart Copeland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young Baltimore photographer’s quirky snapshots unexpectedly bring him fame. ⓘ |
| producedBy |
Christine Vachon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Fiedler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Polar Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1998-09-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Baltimore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Bess Armstrong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brendan Sexton III NERFINISHED ⓘ Christina Ricci NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Furlong NERFINISHED ⓘ Lili Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Plimpton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Kay Place NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Hearst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Pecker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | John Waters 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: Pecker Description of subject: Pecker is a 1998 indie comedy film directed by John Waters about a young Baltimore photographer whose quirky snapshots unexpectedly bring him fame.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.