Empire of the Sun
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Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows a young British boy’s struggle for survival in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Empire of the Sun canonical | 17 |
| Empire of the Sun (film) | 2 |
| Empire of the Sun (1987 film) | 1 |
| Empire of the Sun (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2405506 — 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: Empire of the Sun Context triple: [Christian Bale, notableWork, Empire of the Sun]
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A.
Hugo
Hugo is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European and Spanish-speaking countries.
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B.
Hugo
Hugo is a 2011 fantasy adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese, acclaimed for its innovative use of 3D and its homage to early cinema and filmmaker Georges Méliès.
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C.
The World Inside
The World Inside is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a densely populated future Earth where humanity lives in vast urban towers and embraces extreme social and sexual freedom.
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D.
In the World
"In the World" is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that continues the semi-autobiographical story of a young boy’s harsh upbringing and moral awakening in late 19th-century Russia.
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E.
La Espero
La Espero is the poem by L. L. Zamenhof that serves as the de facto anthem of the international language Esperanto, expressing its ideals of peace and global understanding.
- 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: Empire of the Sun Target entity description: Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows a young British boy’s struggle for survival in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
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A.
Hugo
Hugo is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European and Spanish-speaking countries.
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B.
Hugo
Hugo is a 2011 fantasy adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese, acclaimed for its innovative use of 3D and its homage to early cinema and filmmaker Georges Méliès.
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C.
The World Inside
The World Inside is a 1971 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that explores a densely populated future Earth where humanity lives in vast urban towers and embraces extreme social and sexual freedom.
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D.
In the World
"In the World" is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that continues the semi-autobiographical story of a young boy’s harsh upbringing and moral awakening in late 19th-century Russia.
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E.
La Espero
La Espero is the poem by L. L. Zamenhof that serves as the de facto anthem of the international language Esperanto, expressing its ideals of peace and global understanding.
- 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: Empire of the Sun Description of subject: Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows a young British boy’s struggle for survival in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Steven Spielberg
this entity surface form:
Empire of the Sun (1987 film)
this entity surface form:
Empire of the Sun (novel)
this entity surface form:
Empire of the Sun (film)
this entity surface form:
Empire of the Sun (film)