Mikhail Kalatozov
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Mikhail Kalatozov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter best known internationally for his visually innovative and Palme d'Or–winning film "The Cranes Are Flying."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mikhail Kalatozov canonical | 17 |
| Kalatozov | 1 |
| Михаил Калатозов | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1825689 — 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: Mikhail Kalatozov Context triple: [Mosfilm, collaboratedWith, Mikhail Kalatozov]
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A.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky was a renowned Soviet film director and screenwriter celebrated for his poetic, philosophical, and visually meditative cinema, including works like "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," and "Stalker."
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B.
Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his epic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace," which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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C.
Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm was a prominent Soviet film director, screenwriter, and influential teacher whose works and students helped shape the development of Soviet and Russian cinema.
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D.
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet film director and theorist, best known for his innovative montage techniques in classics like "Battleship Potemkin" that profoundly shaped the language of cinema.
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E.
Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Sokurov is a Russian film director and screenwriter renowned for his meditative, visually distinctive art films such as "Russian Ark" and "Mother and Son."
- 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: Mikhail Kalatozov Target entity description: Mikhail Kalatozov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter best known internationally for his visually innovative and Palme d'Or–winning film "The Cranes Are Flying."
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A.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky was a renowned Soviet film director and screenwriter celebrated for his poetic, philosophical, and visually meditative cinema, including works like "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," and "Stalker."
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B.
Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his epic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace," which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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C.
Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm was a prominent Soviet film director, screenwriter, and influential teacher whose works and students helped shape the development of Soviet and Russian cinema.
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D.
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet film director and theorist, best known for his innovative montage techniques in classics like "Battleship Potemkin" that profoundly shaped the language of cinema.
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E.
Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Sokurov is a Russian film director and screenwriter renowned for his meditative, visually distinctive art films such as "Russian Ark" and "Mother and Son."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: Mikhail Kalatozov Description of subject: Mikhail Kalatozov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter best known internationally for his visually innovative and Palme d'Or–winning film "The Cranes Are Flying."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Cranes Are Flying (1957 film)
subject linked to:
The Cranes Are Flying (1957 film)
linked to: Mikhail Kalatozov
subject linked to:
Mikhail Kalatozov
subject linked to:
Mikhail Kalatozov
subject linked to:
Mikheil Kalatozishvili
linked to: Mikhail Kalatozov