Making the Grade
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"Making the Grade" is a 1984 comedy film in which Andrew Dice Clay appears in an early supporting role, set around a streetwise hustler posing as a rich prep-school student.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Making the Grade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9969218 — 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)
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Target entity: Making the Grade Context triple: [Andrew Dice Clay, notableWork, Making the Grade]
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A.
In School
In School is a non-fiction book by former NHL goaltender and Canadian politician Ken Dryden that examines the challenges and possibilities of the modern education system.
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B.
After School
"After School" is a track featured on the K-pop album "G.O.A.T." by the group Apink.
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C.
Graduation
Graduation is Kanye West’s critically acclaimed 2007 studio album that blends hip hop with electronic and pop influences and features hits like “Stronger” and “Good Life.”
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D.
A Teacher
A Teacher is a 2013 drama film and later television miniseries that explores the illicit relationship between a high school teacher and her student.
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E.
Back to School
Back to School is a 1986 comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield as a wealthy businessman who enrolls in college alongside his son, featuring Burt Young in a supporting role.
- 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: Making the Grade Target entity description: "Making the Grade" is a 1984 comedy film in which Andrew Dice Clay appears in an early supporting role, set around a streetwise hustler posing as a rich prep-school student.
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A.
In School
In School is a non-fiction book by former NHL goaltender and Canadian politician Ken Dryden that examines the challenges and possibilities of the modern education system.
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B.
After School
"After School" is a track featured on the K-pop album "G.O.A.T." by the group Apink.
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C.
Graduation
Graduation is Kanye West’s critically acclaimed 2007 studio album that blends hip hop with electronic and pop influences and features hits like “Stronger” and “Good Life.”
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D.
A Teacher
A Teacher is a 2013 drama film and later television miniseries that explores the illicit relationship between a high school teacher and her student.
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E.
Back to School
Back to School is a 1986 comedy film starring Rodney Dangerfield as a wealthy businessman who enrolls in college alongside his son, featuring Burt Young in a supporting role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| distributor | Orion Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | streetwise hustler ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
teen comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Andrew Clay
NERFINISHED
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Andrew Dice Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ Ben Marley NERFINISHED ⓘ Dana Olsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Deborah Richter NERFINISHED ⓘ Gerrit Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Jump NERFINISHED ⓘ Grady Jamison NERFINISHED ⓘ James Cromwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Jay Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ John F. Goff NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonna Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Judd Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Beth Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Elbling NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Manza NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Lacey NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott McGinnis NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Olkewicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEarlyRoleFor | Andrew Dice Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class differences
ⓘ
identity deception ⓘ social climbing ⓘ |
| mainSetting | prep school ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | hustler posing as rich prep-school student ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980s American teen comedies ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Orion Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| runtimeApprox | 90 minutes ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
teenagers
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
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: Making the Grade Description of subject: "Making the Grade" is a 1984 comedy film in which Andrew Dice Clay appears in an early supporting role, set around a streetwise hustler posing as a rich prep-school student.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.