"Shin Godzilla" (2016)
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"Shin Godzilla" (2016) is a Japanese kaiju film that reimagines Godzilla as an evolving, terrifying force of nature and serves as a dark political satire on government bureaucracy and disaster response.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shin Godzilla | 2 |
| "Shin Godzilla" (2016) canonical | 1 |
| Shin Godzilla (2016 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4123426 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: "Shin Godzilla" (2016) Context triple: [Godzilla, appearsIn, "Shin Godzilla" (2016)]
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A.
Godzilla (2014 film)
Godzilla (2014 film) is a 2014 American monster movie that reboots the Godzilla franchise with a darker, more realistic tone and large-scale kaiju destruction.
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B.
Godzilla: Aftershock
Godzilla: Aftershock is a graphic novel set in Legendary’s MonsterVerse that serves as a prequel to the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, expanding the franchise’s lore and kaiju mythology.
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C.
Godzilla: Awakening
Godzilla: Awakening is a graphic novel prequel that explores the origins and early history of Godzilla within Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse continuity.
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D.
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Final Wars is a 2004 Japanese kaiju film from Toho that serves as a celebratory, action-packed crossover featuring Godzilla and numerous classic monsters in an all-out battle.
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E.
Godzilla (1998 film)
Godzilla (1998 film) is a 1998 American monster movie directed by Roland Emmerich that reimagines the iconic Japanese kaiju in a big-budget Hollywood production set primarily in New York City.
- 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: "Shin Godzilla" (2016) Target entity description: "Shin Godzilla" (2016) is a Japanese kaiju film that reimagines Godzilla as an evolving, terrifying force of nature and serves as a dark political satire on government bureaucracy and disaster response.
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A.
Godzilla (2014 film)
Godzilla (2014 film) is a 2014 American monster movie that reboots the Godzilla franchise with a darker, more realistic tone and large-scale kaiju destruction.
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B.
Godzilla: Aftershock
Godzilla: Aftershock is a graphic novel set in Legendary’s MonsterVerse that serves as a prequel to the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, expanding the franchise’s lore and kaiju mythology.
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C.
Godzilla: Awakening
Godzilla: Awakening is a graphic novel prequel that explores the origins and early history of Godzilla within Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse continuity.
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D.
Godzilla: Final Wars
Godzilla: Final Wars is a 2004 Japanese kaiju film from Toho that serves as a celebratory, action-packed crossover featuring Godzilla and numerous classic monsters in an all-out battle.
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E.
Godzilla (1998 film)
Godzilla (1998 film) is a 1998 American monster movie directed by Roland Emmerich that reimagines the iconic Japanese kaiju in a big-budget Hollywood production set primarily in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (83)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese film
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disaster film ⓘ film ⓘ kaiju film ⓘ reboot film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle |
Godzilla Resurgence
NERFINISHED
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Gojira ⓘ
surface form:
Shin Gojira
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| awardReceived |
Japan Academy Prize for Best Art Direction
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Japan Academy Prize for Best Cinematography ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Best Editing ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Best Lighting Direction ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Best Music Score ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Best Sound Recording ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year ⓘ Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Godzilla
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surface form:
Godzilla (character)
Godzilla universe ⓘ
surface form:
Godzilla franchise
|
| boxOfficeGross | over 75 million USD ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossJapan | over 8 billion yen ⓘ |
| castMember |
Akira Emoto
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Hiroki Hasegawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Kengo Kora ⓘ Mansai Nomura ⓘ Ren Osugi NERFINISHED ⓘ Satomi Ishihara NERFINISHED ⓘ Yutaka Takenouchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Kōzō Shibasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement |
CGI visual effects
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miniature effects ⓘ motion capture performance ⓘ |
| coProductionCompany |
Cine Bazar
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Toho Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| currencyOfBoxOfficeJapan |
Japanese yen
ⓘ
surface form:
JPY
|
| director |
Hideaki Anno
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Shinji Higuchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Toho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Atsuki Sato
NERFINISHED
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Hideaki Anno ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Kayoko Ann Patterson
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Rando Yaguchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Godzilla: Final Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchiseEntryNumber | 29th Toho Godzilla film ⓘ |
| genre |
disaster
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kaiju film ⓘ monster film ⓘ political satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Godzilla Minus One (spiritual successor) ONNED1 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Hiroki Hasegawa
NERFINISHED
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Satomi Ishihara NERFINISHED ⓘ Yutaka Takenouchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Godzilla ⓘ |
| monsterType | mutated creature ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Akira Ifukube
ⓘ
Shiro Sagisu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
multiple evolutionary forms
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satirical depiction of Japanese government ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark political satire of disaster management
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reimagining Godzilla as a terrifying force of nature ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| partOf | Reiwa era Godzilla films ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Godzilla ⓘ |
| portrays | evolving Godzilla ⓘ |
| producer | Toho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ratingSystem |
MPAA film rating system
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surface form:
MPAA
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| releaseCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2016-07-29 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 120 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Hideaki Anno ⓘ |
| setting |
Japan
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Tokyo ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Hideaki Anno
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Shinji Higuchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
disaster response
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government bureaucracy ⓘ nuclear anxiety ⓘ |
| title | Shin Godzilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: "Shin Godzilla" (2016) Description of subject: "Shin Godzilla" (2016) is a Japanese kaiju film that reimagines Godzilla as an evolving, terrifying force of nature and serves as a dark political satire on government bureaucracy and disaster response.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Toho
this entity surface form:
Shin Godzilla
this entity surface form:
Shin Godzilla (2016 film)
this entity surface form:
Shin Godzilla