La Jetée
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La Jetée is a 1962 French science fiction short film composed almost entirely of still photographs, renowned for its innovative storytelling and influence on later works like Twelve Monkeys.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Jetée canonical | 12 |
| La Jetée: ciné-roman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172616 — 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: La Jetée Context triple: [French New Wave, notableWork, La Jetée]
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A.
Alphaville
Alphaville is a 1965 French science-fiction noir film by Jean-Luc Godard that blends dystopian themes with experimental, genre-bending style.
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B.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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C.
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film set in a dystopian future where a "blade runner" hunts bioengineered replicants, renowned for its atmospheric visuals and philosophical themes about humanity and identity.
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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.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a fictional, futuristic American city in the DC Comics universe, best known as Superman’s primary home and the backdrop for many of his stories.
- 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: La Jetée Target entity description: La Jetée is a 1962 French science fiction short film composed almost entirely of still photographs, renowned for its innovative storytelling and influence on later works like Twelve Monkeys.
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A.
Alphaville
Alphaville is a 1965 French science-fiction noir film by Jean-Luc Godard that blends dystopian themes with experimental, genre-bending style.
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B.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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C.
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film set in a dystopian future where a "blade runner" hunts bioengineered replicants, renowned for its atmospheric visuals and philosophical themes about humanity and identity.
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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.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a landmark 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering special effects and dystopian vision of a futuristic urban society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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experimental film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| award | Prix Jean Vigo ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| basedOn | original story by Chris Marker ⓘ |
| cinematography |
Chris Marker
ⓘ
Jean Chiabaut ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| composer | Trevor Duncan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | devastation of Paris ⓘ |
| director | Chris Marker ⓘ |
| distributor | Argos Films ⓘ |
| editing | Jean Ravel ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Paris Orly Airport ⓘ |
| firstScreeningLocation | France ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
experimenters
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the man ⓘ the woman ⓘ |
| hasCultStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasFilmTechnique |
montage of still images
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single brief moving-image shot ⓘ voice-over narration ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama
ⓘ
post-apocalyptic film ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
memory
ⓘ
obsession ⓘ time travel ⓘ war ⓘ |
| includedInList |
Sight & Sound critics’ polls of greatest films
ⓘ
linked to:
Sight & Sound critics' poll
|
| inspiredWork |
La Jetée: ciné-roman
ⓘ
linked to:
La Jetée
Twelve Monkeys ⓘ
linked to:
12 Monkeys
|
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| narrator | Jean Négroni ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on later science fiction films
ⓘ
use of still images instead of moving pictures ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Argos Films ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 28 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post-World War III future ⓘ |
| toldMostlyThrough | still photographs ⓘ |
| writer | Chris Marker ⓘ |
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: La Jetée Description of subject: La Jetée is a 1962 French science fiction short film composed almost entirely of still photographs, renowned for its innovative storytelling and influence on later works like Twelve Monkeys.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Jetée