Simon Birch
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Simon Birch is a 1998 American drama film loosely inspired by John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," focusing on a small boy who believes he is destined for a heroic purpose.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Birch canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9356503 — 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: Simon Birch Context triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, adaptedAs, Simon Birch]
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A.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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B.
Simon Baz
Simon Baz is a Lebanese-American member of DC Comics' Green Lantern Corps, known for wielding a power ring alongside a handgun and confronting themes of post-9/11 prejudice and identity.
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C.
Lewis Jones
Lewis Jones was a prominent 19th-century Welsh settler and leader of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina.
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D.
Jeremy Carver
Jeremy Carver is a television writer and producer best known for his work on genre series such as Supernatural and for serving as showrunner on DC's Doom Patrol.
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E.
Charles Blackwood
Charles Blackwood is a disruptive cousin whose arrival at the isolated Blackwood family home in Shirley Jackson’s novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" threatens the fragile, insular world of its remaining inhabitants.
- 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: Simon Birch Target entity description: Simon Birch is a 1998 American drama film loosely inspired by John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," focusing on a small boy who believes he is destined for a heroic purpose.
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A.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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B.
Simon Baz
Simon Baz is a Lebanese-American member of DC Comics' Green Lantern Corps, known for wielding a power ring alongside a handgun and confronting themes of post-9/11 prejudice and identity.
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C.
Lewis Jones
Lewis Jones was a prominent 19th-century Welsh settler and leader of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, Argentina.
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D.
Jeremy Carver
Jeremy Carver is a television writer and producer best known for his work on genre series such as Supernatural and for serving as showrunner on DC's Doom Patrol.
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E.
Charles Blackwood
Charles Blackwood is a disruptive cousin whose arrival at the isolated Blackwood family home in Shirley Jackson’s novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" threatens the fragile, insular world of its remaining inhabitants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | A Prayer for Owen Meany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | John Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Ben Goodrich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Wenteworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Wenteworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Reverend Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Birch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Aaron Schneider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Mark Steven Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Buena Vista Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | David Finfer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Destiny has big plans for little Simon Birch. ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | A Prayer for Owen Meany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Marc Shaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | adult Joe as narrator ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a small boy who believes he is destined for a heroic purpose ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Laurence Mark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roger Birnbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Hollywood Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roger Birnbaum Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1998-09-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Mark Steven Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Ashley Judd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dana Ivey NERFINISHED ⓘ David Strathairn NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Michael Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Mazzello NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| theme |
destiny
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faith ⓘ friendship ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| title | Simon Birch 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: Simon Birch Description of subject: Simon Birch is a 1998 American drama film loosely inspired by John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," focusing on a small boy who believes he is destined for a heroic purpose.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.