The War of the Buttons
E328914
The War of the Buttons is a 1994 French coming-of-age comedy-drama film about rival groups of village boys whose mock battles escalate into a whimsical yet poignant reflection on childhood, loyalty, and conflict.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The War of the Buttons canonical | 2 |
| La Guerre des boutons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3136156 — 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 War of the Buttons Context triple: [Eduardo Serra, workedOn, The War of the Buttons]
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A.
Between the Buttons
"Between the Buttons" is a 1967 studio album by the Rolling Stones that bridges their early rhythm-and-blues roots with more eclectic, pop-oriented songwriting and production.
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B.
Little War
The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
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C.
The Peaceable Kingdom
The Peaceable Kingdom is a seminal theological work by Stanley Hauerwas that articulates a vision of Christian ethics centered on narrative, virtue, and the church as a peaceable community.
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D.
The Toy Soldier
The Toy Soldier is a themed retail shop in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT, known for selling British- and Disney-inspired toys and souvenirs.
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E.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
- 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 War of the Buttons Target entity description: The War of the Buttons is a 1994 French coming-of-age comedy-drama film about rival groups of village boys whose mock battles escalate into a whimsical yet poignant reflection on childhood, loyalty, and conflict.
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A.
Between the Buttons
"Between the Buttons" is a 1967 studio album by the Rolling Stones that bridges their early rhythm-and-blues roots with more eclectic, pop-oriented songwriting and production.
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B.
Little War
The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
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C.
The Peaceable Kingdom
The Peaceable Kingdom is a seminal theological work by Stanley Hauerwas that articulates a vision of Christian ethics centered on narrative, virtue, and the church as a peaceable community.
-
D.
The Toy Soldier
The Toy Soldier is a themed retail shop in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT, known for selling British- and Disney-inspired toys and souvenirs.
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E.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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comedy-drama film ⓘ coming-of-age film ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Louis Pergaud ⓘ |
| basedOn | La Guerre des boutons (novel) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts | rural community life ⓘ |
| director | Yves Robert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | village boys ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
coming-of-age ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSource | French literature ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
friendship
ⓘ
group identity ⓘ growing up ⓘ rivalry ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeElement | mock battles between children ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | rival groups of village boys ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | coming-of-age arc ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
childhood
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conflict ⓘ loyalty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| portrays | childhood games as war-like conflicts ⓘ |
| productionType | feature film ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Yves Robert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | French countryside ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| title |
The War of the Buttons
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
La Guerre des boutons
The War of the Buttons self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| tone |
poignant
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whimsical ⓘ |
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 War of the Buttons Description of subject: The War of the Buttons is a 1994 French coming-of-age comedy-drama film about rival groups of village boys whose mock battles escalate into a whimsical yet poignant reflection on childhood, loyalty, and conflict.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The War of the Buttons (1994 film)
this entity surface form:
La Guerre des boutons
subject surface form:
The War of the Buttons (1994 film)