The Lives of Others
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The Lives of Others is a critically acclaimed 2006 German drama film about Stasi surveillance in 1980s East Berlin, renowned for its tense, humanistic portrayal of life under a repressive regime.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lives of Others canonical | 5 |
| Das Leben der Anderen | 1 |
| The Lives of Others (2006 film) | 1 |
| feature film "The Lives of Others" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2216672 — 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 Lives of Others Context triple: [Gabriel Yared, notableWork, The Lives of Others]
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A.
Deutschland 83
Deutschland 83 is a German Cold War-era television drama series that follows a young East German border guard sent undercover to West Germany as a spy in 1983.
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B.
Schindlerjuden
Schindlerjuden were the group of Jewish men, women, and children whose lives were saved from the Holocaust by German industrialist Oskar Schindler through their employment in his factories.
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C.
Decalogue
The Decalogue, commonly known as the Ten Commandments, is a foundational set of moral and religious laws in the Hebrew Bible that has profoundly influenced Jewish, Christian, and broader Western ethical traditions.
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D.
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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E.
Downfall
Downfall is the codename for the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
- 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 Lives of Others Target entity description: The Lives of Others is a critically acclaimed 2006 German drama film about Stasi surveillance in 1980s East Berlin, renowned for its tense, humanistic portrayal of life under a repressive regime.
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A.
Deutschland 83
Deutschland 83 is a German Cold War-era television drama series that follows a young East German border guard sent undercover to West Germany as a spy in 1983.
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B.
Schindlerjuden
Schindlerjuden were the group of Jewish men, women, and children whose lives were saved from the Holocaust by German industrialist Oskar Schindler through their employment in his factories.
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C.
Decalogue
The Decalogue, commonly known as the Ten Commandments, is a foundational set of moral and religious laws in the Hebrew Bible that has profoundly influenced Jewish, Christian, and broader Western ethical traditions.
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D.
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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E.
Downfall
Downfall is the codename for the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Lives of Others Description of subject: The Lives of Others is a critically acclaimed 2006 German drama film about Stasi surveillance in 1980s East Berlin, renowned for its tense, humanistic portrayal of life under a repressive regime.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
feature film "The Lives of Others"
this entity surface form:
The Lives of Others (2006 film)
this entity surface form:
Das Leben der Anderen