Yentl (1983 film)
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Yentl (1983 film) is a musical drama directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, about a young Jewish woman in early 20th-century Eastern Europe who disguises herself as a man to pursue religious education.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yentl | 20 |
| Yentl (1983 film) canonical | 5 |
| Yentl (Academy Award for Best Original Song Score) | 1 |
| Yentl (film) | 1 |
| Yentl (original motion picture) | 1 |
| Yentl the Yeshiva Boy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1099212 — 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)
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Target entity: Yentl (1983 film) Context triple: [Barbra Streisand, notableWork, Yentl (1983 film)]
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All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 romantic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, renowned for its lush Technicolor visuals and its critique of 1950s American social conformity and class prejudice.
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Scenes from the Heart
Scenes from the Heart is a memoir-style book co-written by Swedish opera singer Malena Ernman and her family that chronicles their personal journey through climate activism and raising Greta Thunberg.
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Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a critically acclaimed 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee that portrays a decades-long, secret relationship between two cowboys in the American West.
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Thelma
Thelma is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "will" or "volition," popular in English-speaking countries during the early 20th century.
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Gloria
Gloria is a joyful hymn of praise in Christian liturgy, traditionally sung during major celebrations such as the Easter Vigil.
- 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: Yentl (1983 film) Target entity description: Yentl (1983 film) is a musical drama directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, about a young Jewish woman in early 20th-century Eastern Europe who disguises herself as a man to pursue religious education.
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A.
All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 romantic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, renowned for its lush Technicolor visuals and its critique of 1950s American social conformity and class prejudice.
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B.
Scenes from the Heart
Scenes from the Heart is a memoir-style book co-written by Swedish opera singer Malena Ernman and her family that chronicles their personal journey through climate activism and raising Greta Thunberg.
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C.
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a critically acclaimed 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee that portrays a decades-long, secret relationship between two cowboys in the American West.
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D.
Thelma
Thelma is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "will" or "volition," popular in English-speaking countries during the early 20th century.
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E.
Gloria
Gloria is a joyful hymn of praise in Christian liturgy, traditionally sung during major celebrations such as the Easter Vigil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yentl (1983 film) Description of subject: Yentl (1983 film) is a musical drama directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, about a young Jewish woman in early 20th-century Eastern Europe who disguises herself as a man to pursue religious education.
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Mandel
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