Polytechnique
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Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian drama film by Denis Villeneuve that starkly recreates the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polytechnique canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4205673 — 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: Polytechnique Context triple: [Denis Villeneuve, notableWork, Polytechnique]
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A.
École nationale supérieure d’arts et métiers
École nationale supérieure d’arts et métiers is a prestigious French grande école specializing in engineering and industrial technologies, known for training high-level engineers and technical leaders.
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B.
École centrale de Versailles
École centrale de Versailles was a short-lived post-revolutionary French educational institution that served as a precursor to the prestigious Lycée Hoche in Versailles.
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C.
École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures
École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures is a prestigious French engineering grande école renowned for training leading industrial and civil engineers.
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D.
École des Mines de Paris
École des Mines de Paris is one of France’s most prestigious engineering schools, renowned for its rigorous scientific and technical education and influential alumni in academia, industry, and government.
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E.
École des Ponts et Chaussées
École des Ponts et Chaussées is one of France’s oldest and most prestigious engineering schools, renowned for training civil engineers and leaders in infrastructure, transportation, and environmental engineering.
- 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: Polytechnique Target entity description: Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian drama film by Denis Villeneuve that starkly recreates the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.
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A.
École nationale supérieure d’arts et métiers
École nationale supérieure d’arts et métiers is a prestigious French grande école specializing in engineering and industrial technologies, known for training high-level engineers and technical leaders.
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B.
École centrale de Versailles
École centrale de Versailles was a short-lived post-revolutionary French educational institution that served as a precursor to the prestigious Lycée Hoche in Versailles.
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C.
École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures
École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures is a prestigious French engineering grande école renowned for training leading industrial and civil engineers.
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D.
École des Mines de Paris
École des Mines de Paris is one of France’s most prestigious engineering schools, renowned for its rigorous scientific and technical education and influential alumni in academia, industry, and government.
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E.
École des Ponts et Chaussées
École des Ponts et Chaussées is one of France’s oldest and most prestigious engineering schools, renowned for training civil engineers and leaders in infrastructure, transportation, and environmental engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction
NERFINISHED
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Genie Award for Best Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ Jutra Award for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Montreal massacre
NERFINISHED
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École Polytechnique massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Pierre Gill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | 1989 École Polytechnique massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Denis Villeneuve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Alliance Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Richard Comeau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmLocationTime | 1989 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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docudrama ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasColorInfo | black-and-white with some color sequences ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
mass murder
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misogyny ⓘ school shooting ⓘ violence against women ⓘ |
| musicBy | Benoît Charest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | multiple viewpoints ⓘ |
| notableFor | stark and minimalist depiction of a real-life massacre ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
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French ⓘ |
| portrays | Marc Lépine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Don Carmody
NERFINISHED
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Kim McCraw NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxime Rémillard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Micro_Scope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Remstar Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-02-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 77 ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
Montreal
NERFINISHED
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École Polytechnique de Montréal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Evelyne Brochu
NERFINISHED
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Karine Vanasse NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxim Gaudette NERFINISHED ⓘ Sébastien Huberdeau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Denis Villeneuve
NERFINISHED
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Jacques Davidts 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: Polytechnique Description of subject: Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian drama film by Denis Villeneuve that starkly recreates the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.