The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 romantic drama film, based on Milan Kundera’s novel, that explores love, politics, and identity in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Unbearable Lightness of Being canonical | 9 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film) | 4 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2216614 — 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 Unbearable Lightness of Being Context triple: [Walter Murch, notableWork, The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
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A.
Cleanness
Cleanness is a Middle English alliterative poem, often attributed to the Pearl Poet, that explores the virtue of spiritual purity through biblical narratives and moral exempla.
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B.
The Hours
The Hours is a 2002 drama film, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that interweaves the lives of three women in different eras connected by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
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The Reader
The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film, based on Bernhard Schlink’s novel, that explores guilt, memory, and moral responsibility in post-World War II Germany through the relationship between a young man and an older former concentration camp guard.
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Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
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Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika Decides to Die is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that follows a young woman’s transformative journey after a failed suicide attempt in a mental institution, exploring themes of madness, freedom, and the meaning of life.
- 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 Unbearable Lightness of Being Target entity description: The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 romantic drama film, based on Milan Kundera’s novel, that explores love, politics, and identity in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring.
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A.
Cleanness
Cleanness is a Middle English alliterative poem, often attributed to the Pearl Poet, that explores the virtue of spiritual purity through biblical narratives and moral exempla.
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B.
The Hours
The Hours is a 2002 drama film, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, that interweaves the lives of three women in different eras connected by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
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C.
The Reader
The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film, based on Bernhard Schlink’s novel, that explores guilt, memory, and moral responsibility in post-World War II Germany through the relationship between a young man and an older former concentration camp guard.
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D.
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
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E.
Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika Decides to Die is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that follows a young woman’s transformative journey after a failed suicide attempt in a mental institution, exploring themes of madness, freedom, and the meaning of life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Description of subject: The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 romantic drama film, based on Milan Kundera’s novel, that explores love, politics, and identity in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring.
Referenced by (14)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (novel)
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Saul Zaentz