The Last King of Scotland
E161707
The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, for which Forest Whitaker won widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Actor.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416433 — 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: The Last King of Scotland Context triple: [Forest Whitaker, notableWork, The Last King of Scotland]
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The King’s Speech
The King’s Speech is a 2010 historical drama film that follows the future King George VI’s struggle to overcome a debilitating stammer with the help of an unorthodox speech therapist.
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B.
Quills
Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
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C.
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener is a 2005 political thriller film, based on John le Carré’s novel, that follows a British diplomat uncovering a pharmaceutical conspiracy in Kenya after the murder of his activist wife.
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D.
The Railway Man
The Railway Man is a 2013 British-Australian war drama film in which Colin Firth portrays a former World War II prisoner of war confronting the trauma of his past.
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E.
Philomena
Philomena is a 2013 British drama film, based on a true story, that follows an Irish woman’s decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
- 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: The Last King of Scotland Target entity description: The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, for which Forest Whitaker won widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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A.
The King’s Speech
The King’s Speech is a 2010 historical drama film that follows the future King George VI’s struggle to overcome a debilitating stammer with the help of an unorthodox speech therapist.
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B.
Quills
Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
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C.
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener is a 2005 political thriller film, based on John le Carré’s novel, that follows a British diplomat uncovering a pharmaceutical conspiracy in Kenya after the murder of his activist wife.
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D.
The Railway Man
The Railway Man is a 2013 British-Australian war drama film in which Colin Firth portrays a former World War II prisoner of war confronting the trauma of his past.
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E.
Philomena
Philomena is a 2013 British drama film, based on a true story, that follows an Irish woman’s decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Last King of Scotland Description of subject: The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, for which Forest Whitaker won widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Last King of Scotland (2006 film)
this entity surface form:
The Last King of Scotland (novel)
subject surface form:
Forest Whitaker
this entity surface form:
Giles Foden's novel The Last King of Scotland
this entity surface form:
The Last King of Scotland (soundtrack)