District 9
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District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp that portrays an apartheid-style segregation of stranded aliens in South Africa.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| District 9 canonical | 49 |
| District 9 (2009 film) | 2 |
| District 9 alien settlement | 1 |
| District 9 relocation camp | 1 |
| District 9 with Neill Blomkamp | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2138263 — 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: District 9 Context triple: [Weta Workshop, notableWork, District 9]
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District 9
District 9 is a regional division of the California Department of Transportation responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining state highways in its assigned area of California.
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B.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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Elysium
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in a dystopian future where a wealthy elite live on a luxurious space habitat while the rest of humanity struggles on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
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D.
Children of Men
Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian science fiction film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, acclaimed for its immersive long-take cinematography and bleak vision of a near-future global infertility crisis.
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E.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 science fiction film that reboots the Planet of the Apes franchise by depicting the origins of a genetically enhanced ape uprising against humanity.
- 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: District 9 Target entity description: District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp that portrays an apartheid-style segregation of stranded aliens in South Africa.
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A.
District 9
District 9 is a regional division of the California Department of Transportation responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining state highways in its assigned area of California.
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B.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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C.
Elysium
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in a dystopian future where a wealthy elite live on a luxurious space habitat while the rest of humanity struggles on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
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D.
Children of Men
Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian science fiction film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, acclaimed for its immersive long-take cinematography and bleak vision of a near-future global infertility crisis.
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E.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 science fiction film that reboots the Planet of the Apes franchise by depicting the origins of a genetically enhanced ape uprising against humanity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: District 9 Description of subject: District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp that portrays an apartheid-style segregation of stranded aliens in South Africa.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: District 9
linked to: District 9
subject linked to:
David James
linked to: District 9
linked to: District 9
linked to: District 9