Swallowtail Butterfly
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Swallowtail Butterfly is a 1996 Japanese drama film directed by Shunji Iwai, known for its stylish portrayal of immigrant life and identity in a fictional Tokyo district.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Swallowtail Butterfly canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13297164 — 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: Swallowtail Butterfly Context triple: [Ayumi Ito, notableWork, Swallowtail Butterfly]
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A.
Danaus plexippus
Danaus plexippus is the monarch butterfly, a migratory North American butterfly species renowned for its striking orange-and-black wings and long-distance seasonal migrations.
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B.
Star Butterfly
Star Butterfly is a magical princess from another dimension and the energetic, rebellious main protagonist of the animated series "Star vs. the Forces of Evil."
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C.
Adonis blue butterfly
The Adonis blue butterfly is a strikingly bright blue European butterfly species associated with chalk grassland habitats and valued as an indicator of high-quality calcareous downland.
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D.
Callippe silverspot butterfly
The Callippe silverspot butterfly is a federally endangered subspecies of butterfly native to the San Francisco Bay Area’s coastal grasslands, known for its distinctive silvery spots and dependence on native violets as host plants.
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E.
The Yellow Admiral
The Yellow Admiral is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, part of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin amid the Napoleonic Wars.
- 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: Swallowtail Butterfly Target entity description: Swallowtail Butterfly is a 1996 Japanese drama film directed by Shunji Iwai, known for its stylish portrayal of immigrant life and identity in a fictional Tokyo district.
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A.
Danaus plexippus
Danaus plexippus is the monarch butterfly, a migratory North American butterfly species renowned for its striking orange-and-black wings and long-distance seasonal migrations.
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B.
Star Butterfly
Star Butterfly is a magical princess from another dimension and the energetic, rebellious main protagonist of the animated series "Star vs. the Forces of Evil."
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C.
Adonis blue butterfly
The Adonis blue butterfly is a strikingly bright blue European butterfly species associated with chalk grassland habitats and valued as an indicator of high-quality calcareous downland.
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D.
Callippe silverspot butterfly
The Callippe silverspot butterfly is a federally endangered subspecies of butterfly native to the San Francisco Bay Area’s coastal grasslands, known for its distinctive silvery spots and dependence on native violets as host plants.
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E.
The Yellow Admiral
The Yellow Admiral is a historical naval novel by Patrick O’Brian, part of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Captain Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin amid the Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| depicts |
marginalized communities in Japan
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underground economy ⓘ |
| director | Shunji Iwai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| distributor | Shochiku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresBand | Yen Town Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Swallowtail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
identity
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immigrant life ⓘ |
| musicBy | Takeshi Kobayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of multicultural community
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stylish visual style ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese cinema of the 1990s ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Rockwell Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 147 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Shunji Iwai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | fictional Tokyo district ⓘ |
| stars |
Ayumi Ito
NERFINISHED
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Chara NERFINISHED ⓘ Hiroshi Mikami NERFINISHED ⓘ Yōsuke Eguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Swallowtail Butterfly Description of subject: Swallowtail Butterfly is a 1996 Japanese drama film directed by Shunji Iwai, known for its stylish portrayal of immigrant life and identity in a fictional Tokyo district.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.