The Idiot
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The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name and transposed to a postwar Hokkaido setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Idiot canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4245876 — 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 Idiot Context triple: [Akira Kurosawa, notableWork, The Idiot]
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A.
The Idiot
The Idiot is a 19th-century novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores innocence, morality, and the corruption of society through the tragic figure of Prince Myshkin.
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B.
An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary comedy series that follows Karl Pilkington’s reluctant journeys around the world, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
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C.
Diary of a Madman
"Diary of a Madman" is a dark, horrorcore hip-hop track by the group Gravediggaz, known for its eerie production and macabre, narrative-driven lyrics.
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D.
That Yellow Bastard
That Yellow Bastard is a neo-noir crime thriller segment of Frank Miller’s Sin City, centered on an aging cop’s final battle to save a young woman from a grotesquely deformed serial predator.
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E.
Baghead
Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
- 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 Idiot Target entity description: The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name and transposed to a postwar Hokkaido setting.
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A.
The Idiot
The Idiot is a 19th-century novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky that explores innocence, morality, and the corruption of society through the tragic figure of Prince Myshkin.
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B.
An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary comedy series that follows Karl Pilkington’s reluctant journeys around the world, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
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C.
Diary of a Madman
"Diary of a Madman" is a dark, horrorcore hip-hop track by the group Gravediggaz, known for its eerie production and macabre, narrative-driven lyrics.
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D.
That Yellow Bastard
That Yellow Bastard is a neo-noir crime thriller segment of Frank Miller’s Sin City, centered on an aging cop’s final battle to save a young woman from a grotesquely deformed serial predator.
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E.
Baghead
Baghead is a 2008 indie horror-comedy film about struggling filmmakers who retreat to a cabin in the woods to write a screenplay, only to encounter a mysterious figure with a bag over their head.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese film
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black-and-white film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | literary adaptation ⓘ |
| artDirector | Takashi Matsuyama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Idiot (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| characterBasedOn |
Nastasya Filippovna
NERFINISHED
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Parfyon Rogozhin NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Myshkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Toshio Ubukata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Masae Miyazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| director | Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| distributor | Shochiku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Toshio Goto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedInKurosawaFilmographyBy | Ikiru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
compassion
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guilt ⓘ redemption ⓘ tragic love ⓘ |
| musicBy | Fumio Hayasaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | transposing Dostoevsky’s novel to postwar Hokkaido ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| partiallyLost | yes ⓘ |
| partOfFilmographyOf | Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededInKurosawaFilmographyBy | Rashomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Shochiku
NERFINISHED
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Shochiku Ofuna Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateJapan | 1951-05-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| romanizedTitle | Hakuchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeOriginalCut | 265 minutes ⓘ |
| runtimeTheatricalCut | 166 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Akira Kurosawa
NERFINISHED
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Eijirō Hisaita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Hokkaido NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | postwar Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Masayuki Mori
NERFINISHED
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Setsuko Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Toshirō Mifune NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoshiko Kuga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleInJapanese | 白痴 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Idiot Description of subject: The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name and transposed to a postwar Hokkaido setting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.