Dunkirk
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Dunkirk is a 2017 war film directed by Christopher Nolan that depicts the World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dunkirk canonical | 34 |
| Dunkirk (2017 film) | 4 |
| Dunkirk (film) | 2 |
| Academy Award for Best Picture nomination for Dunkirk | 1 |
| Dunkirk (2017 film, supporting role) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T198865 — 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: Dunkirk Context triple: [Syncopy, produced, Dunkirk]
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A.
D-Day
D-Day was the massive Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, that marked a decisive turning point in World War II in Western Europe.
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B.
Le Havre
Le Havre is a major French port city in Normandy, known as one of the country’s principal maritime and commercial gateways.
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C.
Luftbrücke
Luftbrücke is the German term for the Berlin Airlift, the Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948–1949.
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D.
Lawrence of Arabia
"Lawrence of Arabia" is a 1962 epic historical drama film directed by David Lean that chronicles the World War I exploits of British officer T. E. Lawrence in the Arabian Peninsula.
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E.
Defense of the Reich
Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
- 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: Dunkirk Target entity description: Dunkirk is a 2017 war film directed by Christopher Nolan that depicts the World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
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A.
D-Day
D-Day was the massive Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, that marked a decisive turning point in World War II in Western Europe.
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B.
Le Havre
Le Havre is a major French port city in Normandy, known as one of the country’s principal maritime and commercial gateways.
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C.
Luftbrücke
Luftbrücke is the German term for the Berlin Airlift, the Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948–1949.
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D.
Lawrence of Arabia
"Lawrence of Arabia" is a 1962 epic historical drama film directed by David Lean that chronicles the World War I exploits of British officer T. E. Lawrence in the Arabian Peninsula.
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E.
Defense of the Reich
Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
- 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: Dunkirk Description of subject: Dunkirk is a 2017 war film directed by Christopher Nolan that depicts the World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Hoyte
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van Hoytema
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Keoghan
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