Casualties of War
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Casualties of War is a 1989 war drama film directed by Brian De Palma that portrays a harrowing true story of moral conflict and atrocity during the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Casualties of War canonical | 15 |
| The New Yorker article "Casualties of War" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2249806 — 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: Casualties of War Context triple: [Brian De Palma, notableWork, Casualties of War]
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A.
The Consequences of War
The Consequences of War is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens that allegorically depicts the chaos and devastation wrought by armed conflict in 17th-century Europe.
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B.
War As I Knew It
"War As I Knew It" is a posthumously published memoir by U.S. General George S. Patton Jr. that recounts his World War II campaigns and military philosophy.
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C.
War Without End
"War Without End" is a book by Michael Klare that analyzes the geopolitical, economic, and military dynamics driving perpetual global conflict in the post–Cold War era.
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D.
The War You Don't See
The War You Don't See is a documentary film by journalist John Pilger that critically examines how the media shapes public perception of war and conflict.
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E.
War Is Kind
War Is Kind is a collection of anti-war poems and short stories by American writer Stephen Crane that starkly critiques the brutality and irony of war.
- 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: Casualties of War Target entity description: Casualties of War is a 1989 war drama film directed by Brian De Palma that portrays a harrowing true story of moral conflict and atrocity during the Vietnam War.
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A.
The Consequences of War
The Consequences of War is a dramatic Baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens that allegorically depicts the chaos and devastation wrought by armed conflict in 17th-century Europe.
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B.
War As I Knew It
"War As I Knew It" is a posthumously published memoir by U.S. General George S. Patton Jr. that recounts his World War II campaigns and military philosophy.
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C.
War Without End
"War Without End" is a book by Michael Klare that analyzes the geopolitical, economic, and military dynamics driving perpetual global conflict in the post–Cold War era.
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D.
The War You Don't See
The War You Don't See is a documentary film by journalist John Pilger that critically examines how the media shapes public perception of war and conflict.
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E.
War Is Kind
War Is Kind is a collection of anti-war poems and short stories by American writer Stephen Crane that starkly critiques the brutality and irony of war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Casualties of War Description of subject: Casualties of War is a 1989 war drama film directed by Brian De Palma that portrays a harrowing true story of moral conflict and atrocity during the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Casualties of War
subject linked to:
half-brother (Sam Robards)
subject linked to:
Eric B. & Rakim single "Don't Sweat the Technique"