That Obscure Object of Desire
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That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| That Obscure Object of Desire canonical | 15 |
| That Obscure Object of Desire (1977 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1978428 — 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: That Obscure Object of Desire Context triple: [Luis Buñuel, notableWork, That Obscure Object of Desire]
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A.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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B.
Love in the Afternoon
Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper, about a young woman who becomes entangled in a playful yet complicated love affair with an older American playboy in Paris.
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C.
The Third Man
The Third Man is a classic 1949 British film noir set in postwar Vienna, renowned for its atmospheric cinematography, iconic zither score, and twist-filled story of intrigue and moral ambiguity.
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D.
Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.
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E.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is a 1967 French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard that satirically explores youthful Maoist radicalism in Paris on the eve of the 1968 student protests.
- 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: That Obscure Object of Desire Target entity description: That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
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A.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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B.
Love in the Afternoon
Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper, about a young woman who becomes entangled in a playful yet complicated love affair with an older American playboy in Paris.
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C.
The Third Man
The Third Man is a classic 1949 British film noir set in postwar Vienna, renowned for its atmospheric cinematography, iconic zither score, and twist-filled story of intrigue and moral ambiguity.
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D.
Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.
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E.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is a 1967 French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard that satirically explores youthful Maoist radicalism in Paris on the eve of the 1968 student protests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: That Obscure Object of Desire Description of subject: That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: That Obscure Object of Desire
linked to: That Obscure Object of Desire