A Dry White Season
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A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Dry White Season canonical | 5 |
| A Dry White Season (novel) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3224389 — 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: A Dry White Season Context triple: [Susannah Harker, notableWork, A Dry White Season]
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Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North is a landmark 1966 novel by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih that explores themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural conflict between Europe and Africa.
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B.
In the Skin of a Lion
In the Skin of a Lion is a 1987 novel by Michael Ondaatje that lyrically explores the lives of immigrant workers who helped build early 20th-century Toronto.
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C.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
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D.
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is a psychologically rich novel by Margaret Atwood that explores memory, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood friendships and bullying on an adult woman artist.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- 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: A Dry White Season Target entity description: A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
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A.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North is a landmark 1966 novel by Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih that explores themes of colonialism, identity, and cultural conflict between Europe and Africa.
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B.
In the Skin of a Lion
In the Skin of a Lion is a 1987 novel by Michael Ondaatje that lyrically explores the lives of immigrant workers who helped build early 20th-century Toronto.
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C.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
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D.
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is a psychologically rich novel by Margaret Atwood that explores memory, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood friendships and bullying on an adult woman artist.
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E.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: A Dry White Season Description of subject: A Dry White Season is a 1989 anti-apartheid drama film set in South Africa, based on André Brink’s novel, that explores racial injustice through the story of a white teacher who investigates the death of a Black friend in police custody.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Dry White Season
linked to: A Dry White Season