Locarno Film Festival
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The Locarno Film Festival is a prestigious international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland, renowned for its focus on auteur cinema and its iconic open-air screenings in Piazza Grande.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Locarno Film Festival canonical | 4 |
| Concorso Cineasti del presente | 1 |
| Festival del film Locarno | 1 |
| Locarno Festival | 1 |
| Locarno Film Festival Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3350783 — 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: Locarno Film Festival Context triple: [FIAPF A-category festival, exampleFestival, Locarno Film Festival]
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A.
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious international film festivals, renowned for premiering major auteur cinema and awarding the Golden Lion.
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B.
Turin Film Festival
The Turin Film Festival is a major Italian international film festival held annually in Turin, renowned for showcasing independent and innovative cinema.
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C.
Zurich Film Festival
The Zurich Film Festival is an annual international film festival held in Zurich, Switzerland, showcasing new films from around the world and hosting industry events and awards.
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D.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in Central and Eastern Europe, held annually in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary and renowned for showcasing international independent and art-house cinema.
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E.
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale, is one of the world’s leading film festivals, renowned for its prestigious Golden Bear awards and its politically engaged, artistically diverse program held annually in Berlin, Germany.
- 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: Locarno Film Festival Target entity description: The Locarno Film Festival is a prestigious international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland, renowned for its focus on auteur cinema and its iconic open-air screenings in Piazza Grande.
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A.
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious international film festivals, renowned for premiering major auteur cinema and awarding the Golden Lion.
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B.
Turin Film Festival
The Turin Film Festival is a major Italian international film festival held annually in Turin, renowned for showcasing independent and innovative cinema.
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C.
Zurich Film Festival
The Zurich Film Festival is an annual international film festival held in Zurich, Switzerland, showcasing new films from around the world and hosting industry events and awards.
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D.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in Central and Eastern Europe, held annually in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary and renowned for showcasing international independent and art-house cinema.
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E.
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale, is one of the world’s leading film festivals, renowned for its prestigious Golden Bear awards and its politically engaged, artistically diverse program held annually in Berlin, Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film festival
ⓘ
international film festival ⓘ |
| accreditation | FIAPF ⓘ |
| aim | support innovative and independent filmmaking ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Locarno Film Festival
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surface form:
Festival del film Locarno
Locarno Film Festival ⓘ
surface form:
Locarno Festival
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| award |
Best Direction Award
ⓘ
Excellence Award ⓘ Golden Leopard ⓘ Leopard of Honour ⓘ Pardo d’onore ⓘ Pardo for Best Actor ⓘ Pardo for Best Actress ⓘ Special Jury Prize ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| focus |
art-house cinema
ⓘ
emerging filmmakers ⓘ independent cinema ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| hasCompetition |
documentary films
ⓘ
feature films ⓘ short films ⓘ |
| inception | 1946 ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canton of Ticino
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Locarno ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| memberOf | FIAPF-accredited competitive film festivals ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Piazza Grande open-air screenings
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auteur cinema ⓘ |
| organizer |
Locarno Film Festival
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Locarno Film Festival Association
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| region |
Ticino, Switzerland
ⓘ
surface form:
Ticino
|
| screenCapacity | approximately 8000 spectators in Piazza Grande ⓘ |
| screenType | open-air screenings ⓘ |
| section |
Locarno Film Festival
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Concorso Cineasti del presente
Concorso internazionale ⓘ Open Doors ⓘ Pardi di domani ⓘ Piazza Grande ⓘ Retrospective ⓘ |
| significance | one of the major European film festivals ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | August ⓘ |
| topAward | Golden Leopard ⓘ |
| venue | Piazza Grande ⓘ |
| website | https://www.locarnofestival.ch ⓘ |
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: Locarno Film Festival Description of subject: The Locarno Film Festival is a prestigious international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland, renowned for its focus on auteur cinema and its iconic open-air screenings in Piazza Grande.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Concorso Cineasti del presente
this entity surface form:
Locarno Film Festival Association
this entity surface form:
Festival del film Locarno
this entity surface form:
Locarno Festival