How to Get Ahead in Advertising
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British satirical black comedy film that skewers the advertising industry and consumer culture.
All labels observed (1)
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| How to Get Ahead in Advertising canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11369394 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Get Ahead in Advertising Context triple: [Charlotte Coleman, notableWork, How to Get Ahead in Advertising]
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A.
DART for Advertisers
DART for Advertisers is an online ad-serving and campaign management platform that enabled advertisers to create, target, deliver, and track digital advertising across websites.
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B.
The Art of Success
The Art of Success is a stage play by British dramatist Nick Dear that explores the life, ambitions, and moral compromises of 18th-century painter William Hogarth.
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C.
How to Win at the Sport of Business
How to Win at the Sport of Business is an entrepreneurial and motivational book by billionaire investor Mark Cuban that distills his personal experiences and lessons on building successful businesses.
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D.
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
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E.
How to Win: Talent, Strategy and Management
"How to Win: Talent, Strategy and Management" is a leadership and high-performance management book by former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward, outlining his principles for building successful teams in sport and business.
- 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: How to Get Ahead in Advertising Target entity description: How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British satirical black comedy film that skewers the advertising industry and consumer culture.
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A.
DART for Advertisers
DART for Advertisers is an online ad-serving and campaign management platform that enabled advertisers to create, target, deliver, and track digital advertising across websites.
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B.
The Art of Success
The Art of Success is a stage play by British dramatist Nick Dear that explores the life, ambitions, and moral compromises of 18th-century painter William Hogarth.
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C.
How to Win at the Sport of Business
How to Win at the Sport of Business is an entrepreneurial and motivational book by billionaire investor Mark Cuban that distills his personal experiences and lessons on building successful businesses.
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D.
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
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E.
How to Win: Talent, Strategy and Management
"How to Win: Talent, Strategy and Management" is a leadership and high-performance management book by former England rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward, outlining his principles for building successful teams in sport and business.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
black comedy film
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film ⓘ satirical film ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Peter Hannan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Bruce Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | HandMade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alan Strachan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPlotElement |
mental breakdown of an ad executive
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talking boil ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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fantasy film ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasHumourStyle |
dark humour
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surreal humour ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
consumerism
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corporate ethics ⓘ critique of advertising ⓘ |
| isFollowUpTo | Withnail and I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Denis Dimbleby Bagley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainProtagonistOccupation | advertising executive ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | 15 (UK) ⓘ |
| musicBy |
David Dundas
NERFINISHED
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Rick Wentworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
advertising industry
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consumer culture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | British independent cinema ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard E. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Sarah Radclyffe
NERFINISHED
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Tim Bevan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HandMade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1989 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bruce Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| starring |
Jacqueline Tong
NERFINISHED
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Rachel Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard E. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Wooldridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Bruce Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: How to Get Ahead in Advertising Description of subject: How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British satirical black comedy film that skewers the advertising industry and consumer culture.
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