Currents
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Currents is a New York Film Festival program section dedicated to innovative, experimental, and boundary-pushing contemporary cinema and media art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Currents canonical | 1 |
| Currents (2015) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3266587 — 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: Currents Context triple: [New York Film Festival, hasSection, Currents]
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A.
New Currents
New Currents is the main competition section of the Busan International Film Festival, showcasing first or second features by emerging Asian filmmakers.
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B.
Canary Current
The Canary Current is a cool, southward-flowing eastern boundary current off the northwest coast of Africa that forms part of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and strongly influences the region’s climate and marine productivity.
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C.
Shallow Seas
Shallow Seas is an episode of the BBC nature documentary series "Planet Earth" that explores the rich marine life and ecosystems found in the sunlit coastal waters of the world's oceans.
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D.
Seascape
Seascape is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Edward Albee that blends domestic drama with surreal encounters between humans and evolved sea creatures to explore themes of communication, evolution, and aging.
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E.
Sky Stream
Sky Stream is a streaming television service from Sky that delivers live TV and on-demand content over broadband without the need for a satellite dish.
- 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: Currents Target entity description: Currents is a New York Film Festival program section dedicated to innovative, experimental, and boundary-pushing contemporary cinema and media art.
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A.
New Currents
New Currents is the main competition section of the Busan International Film Festival, showcasing first or second features by emerging Asian filmmakers.
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B.
Canary Current
The Canary Current is a cool, southward-flowing eastern boundary current off the northwest coast of Africa that forms part of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and strongly influences the region’s climate and marine productivity.
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C.
Shallow Seas
Shallow Seas is an episode of the BBC nature documentary series "Planet Earth" that explores the rich marine life and ecosystems found in the sunlit coastal waters of the world's oceans.
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D.
Seascape
Seascape is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Edward Albee that blends domestic drama with surreal encounters between humans and evolved sea creatures to explore themes of communication, evolution, and aging.
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E.
Sky Stream
Sky Stream is a streaming television service from Sky that delivers live TV and on-demand content over broadband without the need for a satellite dish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New York Film Festival section
ⓘ
film festival program section ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Main Slate (New York Film Festival)
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linked to:
New York Film Festival
New York Film Festival sidebars ⓘ |
| audience | film festival attendees ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| curationStyle |
artist-driven work
ⓘ
experimental programming ⓘ |
| emphasis |
boundary-pushing media practices
ⓘ
formally adventurous cinema ⓘ |
| festivalType | international film festival section ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
boundary-pushing contemporary cinema
ⓘ
experimental cinema ⓘ innovative cinema ⓘ media art ⓘ |
| language | various languages ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| locationVenue | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
moving-image media art ⓘ video ⓘ |
| name | Currents ⓘ |
| organizer | Film at Lincoln Center ⓘ |
| partOf | New York Film Festival ⓘ |
| recurrence | annual ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Currents Description of subject: Currents is a New York Film Festival program section dedicated to innovative, experimental, and boundary-pushing contemporary cinema and media art.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Currents