Broken English
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"Broken English" is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Zoe Cassavetes, starring Parker Posey as a disillusioned New Yorker searching for love and meaning in her life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broken English canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9522266 — 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: Broken English Context triple: [Parker Posey, notableWork, Broken English]
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A.
Broken English
Broken English is a 1979 British comedy film starring Michael Caine and John Clive, known for its satirical take on language and communication.
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B.
Bad English
Bad English was a late-1980s hard rock supergroup best known for their hit power ballad "When I See You Smile," featuring former members of Journey and The Babys.
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C.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is an Australian stage play by Andrew Bovell, best known as the source material for the acclaimed film "Lantana."
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D.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
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E.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
- 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: Broken English Target entity description: "Broken English" is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Zoe Cassavetes, starring Parker Posey as a disillusioned New Yorker searching for love and meaning in her life.
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A.
Broken English
Broken English is a 1979 British comedy film starring Michael Caine and John Clive, known for its satirical take on language and communication.
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B.
Bad English
Bad English was a late-1980s hard rock supergroup best known for their hit power ballad "When I See You Smile," featuring former members of Journey and The Babys.
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C.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is an Australian stage play by Andrew Bovell, best known as the source material for the acclaimed film "Lantana."
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D.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
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E.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Pirozzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | mixed to positive reviews ⓘ |
| director | Zoe Cassavetes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Gaumont (France)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Magnolia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Plummy Tucker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loneliness
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | hotel employee ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nora Wilder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Scratch Massive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | feature directorial debut of Zoe Cassavetes ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parentalFigurePortrayedBy | Gena Rowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A disillusioned New Yorker searches for love and meaning in her life. ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| productionCompany | InDigEnt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Parker Posey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Tribeca Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Zoe Cassavetes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| starring |
Drea de Matteo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gena Rowlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Justin Theroux NERFINISHED ⓘ Melvil Poupaud NERFINISHED ⓘ Parker Posey NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Bogdanovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Broken English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Zoe Cassavetes 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: Broken English Description of subject: "Broken English" is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Zoe Cassavetes, starring Parker Posey as a disillusioned New Yorker searching for love and meaning in her life.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.