Sebastian and the Sparrow
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Sebastian and the Sparrow is an Australian coming-of-age drama film about an unlikely friendship between a runaway boy and a streetwise drifter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sebastian and the Sparrow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13517296 — 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: Sebastian and the Sparrow Context triple: [Scott Hicks, directed, Sebastian and the Sparrow]
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A.
The Parakeet and the Mermaid
"The Parakeet and the Mermaid" is a 1948 surrealist painting by Joan Miró, featuring bold abstract forms and vibrant colors that evoke fantastical bird and sea-creature imagery.
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B.
The Little Sparrow
"The Little Sparrow" is the famous nickname of French singer Édith Piaf, reflecting her petite stature and poignant, emotive singing style.
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C.
The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a landmark 1972 Egyptian political drama film directed by Youssef Chahine that critiques corruption and disillusionment surrounding the 1967 Six-Day War.
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D.
Son of the Sea
"Son of the Sea" is a track from Bill Callahan’s introspective, folk-influenced album *Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest*, known for its poetic lyricism and understated, reflective tone.
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E.
Sparrow’s Flight
Sparrow’s Flight is a work by British actress and author Sheila Hancock, reflecting her experiences and perspectives beyond her celebrated stage and screen career.
- 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: Sebastian and the Sparrow Target entity description: Sebastian and the Sparrow is an Australian coming-of-age drama film about an unlikely friendship between a runaway boy and a streetwise drifter.
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A.
The Parakeet and the Mermaid
"The Parakeet and the Mermaid" is a 1948 surrealist painting by Joan Miró, featuring bold abstract forms and vibrant colors that evoke fantastical bird and sea-creature imagery.
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B.
The Little Sparrow
"The Little Sparrow" is the famous nickname of French singer Édith Piaf, reflecting her petite stature and poignant, emotive singing style.
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C.
The Sparrow
The Sparrow is a landmark 1972 Egyptian political drama film directed by Youssef Chahine that critiques corruption and disillusionment surrounding the 1967 Six-Day War.
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D.
Son of the Sea
"Son of the Sea" is a track from Bill Callahan’s introspective, folk-influenced album *Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest*, known for its poetic lyricism and understated, reflective tone.
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E.
Sparrow’s Flight
Sparrow’s Flight is a work by British actress and author Sheila Hancock, reflecting her experiences and perspectives beyond her celebrated stage and screen career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian film
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coming-of-age film ⓘ drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | contemporary Australia ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
drifter
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runaway child ⓘ streetwise youth ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Australia ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
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intergenerational friendship ⓘ runaway children ⓘ social marginalization ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter |
Sebastian
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the Sparrow ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | friendship ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
runaway boy
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streetwise drifter ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| workType | narrative film ⓘ |
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: Sebastian and the Sparrow Description of subject: Sebastian and the Sparrow is an Australian coming-of-age drama film about an unlikely friendship between a runaway boy and a streetwise drifter.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.