Scotland, PA
E909827
Scotland, PA is a dark comedy film that reimagines Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" in a 1970s Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scotland, PA canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11088421 — 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: Scotland, PA Context triple: [Maura Tierney, notableWork, Scotland, PA]
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A.
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania is a suburban borough in Berks County known for its residential character and role as a corporate hub in the Reading metropolitan area.
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B.
Westland, Pennsylvania
Westland, Pennsylvania is a small unincorporated community in Washington County known historically for its coal mining and its location along Chartiers Creek.
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C.
Scottdale, Pennsylvania
Scottdale, Pennsylvania is a small borough in Westmoreland County known historically for its role in the region’s coal and coke industries.
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D.
Moosic, Pennsylvania
Moosic, Pennsylvania is a small borough in Lackawanna County best known for its minor league baseball stadium and proximity to the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area.
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E.
Birmingham, Pennsylvania
Birmingham, Pennsylvania is a small historic borough in Huntingdon County best known as the birthplace of food industry pioneer Henry John Heinz.
- 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: Scotland, PA Target entity description: Scotland, PA is a dark comedy film that reimagines Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" in a 1970s Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant setting.
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A.
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania is a suburban borough in Berks County known for its residential character and role as a corporate hub in the Reading metropolitan area.
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B.
Westland, Pennsylvania
Westland, Pennsylvania is a small unincorporated community in Washington County known historically for its coal mining and its location along Chartiers Creek.
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C.
Scottdale, Pennsylvania
Scottdale, Pennsylvania is a small borough in Westmoreland County known historically for its role in the region’s coal and coke industries.
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D.
Moosic, Pennsylvania
Moosic, Pennsylvania is a small borough in Lackawanna County best known for its minor league baseball stadium and proximity to the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area.
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E.
Birmingham, Pennsylvania
Birmingham, Pennsylvania is a small historic borough in Huntingdon County best known as the birthplace of food industry pioneer Henry John Heinz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | modern retelling of Macbeth ⓘ |
| antagonistRole | police detective ⓘ |
| basedOn | Macbeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | W. Mott Hupfel III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Billy Morrissette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lot 47 Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Christopher Tellefsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| filmRuntime | approximately 104 minutes ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy film
ⓘ
crime comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Amy Smart
NERFINISHED
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Andy Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Walken NERFINISHED ⓘ James LeGros NERFINISHED ⓘ James Rebhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Corrigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Maura Tierney NERFINISHED ⓘ Max Perlich NERFINISHED ⓘ Megan Cavanagh NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Omundson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Guiry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDetectiveCharacter | Lieutenant McDuff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
ambition
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ satire of corporate culture ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Anton Sanko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | uses Shakespearean plot elements in a contemporary setting ⓘ |
| notableElement | transposes Macbeth to a 1970s fast-food restaurant setting ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A fast-food restaurant worker and his ambitious wife plot to take over the business, echoing the story of Macbeth. ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Joe McBeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistSpouseName | Pat McBeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Billy Morrissette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| titleAlludesTo | Scotland 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: Scotland, PA Description of subject: Scotland, PA is a dark comedy film that reimagines Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" in a 1970s Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant setting.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.