The Night of the Shooting Stars
E1017476
The Night of the Shooting Stars is a 1982 Italian film by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani that blends memory, fantasy, and wartime reality as it follows villagers fleeing Nazi-occupied Tuscany during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Night of the Shooting Stars canonical | 5 |
| La Finestra sul Luna Park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13063416 — 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: The Night of the Shooting Stars Context triple: [Giuseppe Rotunno, notableWork, The Night of the Shooting Stars]
-
A.
The Shooting Star
The Shooting Star is a 1942 installment of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin comic series, featuring Tintin’s race to claim a fallen meteorite amid international rivalry and apocalyptic omens.
-
B.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film that serves as a sequel to Terms of Endearment, continuing the story of Aurora Greenway and her family.
-
C.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star was the original name of the major Canadian daily newspaper now known as the Toronto Star.
-
D.
Sternenfall
Sternenfall is a large-scale artwork by German artist Anselm Kiefer that reflects his characteristic exploration of history, memory, and the cosmos through heavily textured, symbol-laden surfaces.
-
E.
Stars at Noon
Stars at Noon is a 2022 romantic thriller film directed by Claire Denis, adapted from Denis Johnson’s novel, about a stranded American journalist entangled with a mysterious English businessman in politically turbulent Nicaragua.
- 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: The Night of the Shooting Stars Target entity description: The Night of the Shooting Stars is a 1982 Italian film by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani that blends memory, fantasy, and wartime reality as it follows villagers fleeing Nazi-occupied Tuscany during World War II.
-
A.
The Shooting Star
The Shooting Star is a 1942 installment of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin comic series, featuring Tintin’s race to claim a fallen meteorite amid international rivalry and apocalyptic omens.
-
B.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film that serves as a sequel to Terms of Endearment, continuing the story of Aurora Greenway and her family.
-
C.
The Evening Star
The Evening Star was the original name of the major Canadian daily newspaper now known as the Toronto Star.
-
D.
Sternenfall
Sternenfall is a large-scale artwork by German artist Anselm Kiefer that reflects his characteristic exploration of history, memory, and the cosmos through heavily textured, symbol-laden surfaces.
-
E.
Stars at Noon
Stars at Noon is a 2022 romantic thriller film directed by Claire Denis, adapted from Denis Johnson’s novel, about a stranded American journalist entangled with a mysterious English businessman in politically turbulent Nicaragua.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| award |
Best Director at the 1982 David di Donatello Awards
ⓘ
Best Film at the 1982 David di Donatello Awards ⓘ Best Screenplay at the 1982 David di Donatello Awards ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Giuseppe Lanci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| depicts | Nazi occupation of Italy ⓘ |
| director |
Paolo Taviani
ⓘ
Vittorio Taviani ⓘ |
| distributor | Gaumont ⓘ |
| editedBy | Roberto Perpignani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFestivalAward |
FIPRESCI Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival
ⓘ
linked to:
FIPRESCI Prize
Grand Prix at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ war ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Claudio Bigagli
ⓘ
Enrica Maria Modugno ⓘ Giovanni Guidelli ⓘ Margarita Lozano ⓘ Massimo Bonetti ⓘ Micol Guidelli ⓘ Omero Antonutti ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
childhood perspective on war
ⓘ
memory ⓘ myth and reality ⓘ war and occupation ⓘ |
| language | Italian ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nicola Piovani ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | blend of memory, fantasy, and wartime reality ⓘ |
| narrator | adult version of the child protagonist ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La notte di San Lorenzo ⓘ |
| partOfFilmMovement | Italian cinema of the 1980s ⓘ |
| plotFocus | villagers fleeing Nazi-occupied Tuscany ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Gaumont
ⓘ
Rai ⓘ |
| releaseDateItaly | 1982-09-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 107 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| setInRegion | Tuscany ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Italy ⓘ |
| writer |
Paolo Taviani
ⓘ
Vittorio Taviani ⓘ |
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: The Night of the Shooting Stars Description of subject: The Night of the Shooting Stars is a 1982 Italian film by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani that blends memory, fantasy, and wartime reality as it follows villagers fleeing Nazi-occupied Tuscany during World War II.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Night of the Shooting Stars