Ten Canoes
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Ten Canoes is a 2006 Australian film, spoken largely in Indigenous Australian languages, that tells an ancestral story of the Yolngu people and is acclaimed for its culturally authentic portrayal of Aboriginal life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ten Canoes canonical | 19 |
| film Ten Canoes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T981909 — 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: Ten Canoes Context triple: [Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, notableWinner, Ten Canoes]
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Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American HBO television drama series set during the Great Depression that blends dark fantasy, mysticism, and a traveling carnival backdrop to explore an epic struggle between good and evil.
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B.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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C.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children is a visually striking 1995 French science-fantasy film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, known for its dark fairy-tale atmosphere and surreal steampunk world.
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E.
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pan’s Labyrinth is a dark fantasy film set in post–Civil War Spain that intertwines a young girl’s eerie fairy-tale quest with the brutal realities of fascist rule.
- 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: Ten Canoes Target entity description: Ten Canoes is a 2006 Australian film, spoken largely in Indigenous Australian languages, that tells an ancestral story of the Yolngu people and is acclaimed for its culturally authentic portrayal of Aboriginal life.
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A.
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American HBO television drama series set during the Great Depression that blends dark fantasy, mysticism, and a traveling carnival backdrop to explore an epic struggle between good and evil.
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B.
Tideland
Tideland is a dark fantasy drama film known for its surreal, disturbing portrayal of a young girl's imagination as she copes with isolation and trauma in a desolate rural setting.
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C.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children is a visually striking 1995 French science-fantasy film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, known for its dark fairy-tale atmosphere and surreal steampunk world.
-
E.
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pan’s Labyrinth is a dark fantasy film set in post–Civil War Spain that intertwines a young girl’s eerie fairy-tale quest with the brutal realities of fascist rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ten Canoes Description of subject: Ten Canoes is a 2006 Australian film, spoken largely in Indigenous Australian languages, that tells an ancestral story of the Yolngu people and is acclaimed for its culturally authentic portrayal of Aboriginal life.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ten Canoes
subject linked to:
Rolf De Heer
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Rolf De Heer
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Rolf De Heer
subject linked to:
Rolf De Heer