Old Well
E443079
Old Well is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Wu Tianming and noted for its acclaimed cinematography by Zhang Yimou.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Well canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4459910 — 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: Old Well Context triple: [Zhang Yimou, cinematographyBy, Old Well]
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A.
Old Well
Old Well is an iconic neoclassical rotunda and campus symbol of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, traditionally associated with good luck for students who drink from it.
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B.
Mary’s Well
Mary’s Well is a historic spring and pilgrimage site in Nazareth traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary and the Annunciation.
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C.
The Well
"The Well" is a song by American singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 2005 album *A River Ain't Too Much to Love*, known for its sparse, introspective folk style.
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D.
The Well
The Well is a film featuring actress Dorothy Patrick, known for her roles in mid-20th-century American cinema.
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E.
The Well
The Well is a 1997 Australian psychological thriller film in which Miranda Otto gives a critically acclaimed performance as a young woman entangled in a tense, isolating relationship with her guardian.
- 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: Old Well Target entity description: Old Well is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Wu Tianming and noted for its acclaimed cinematography by Zhang Yimou.
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A.
Old Well
Old Well is an iconic neoclassical rotunda and campus symbol of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, traditionally associated with good luck for students who drink from it.
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B.
Mary’s Well
Mary’s Well is a historic spring and pilgrimage site in Nazareth traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary and the Annunciation.
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C.
The Well
"The Well" is a song by American singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 2005 album *A River Ain't Too Much to Love*, known for its sparse, introspective folk style.
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D.
The Well
The Well is a film featuring actress Dorothy Patrick, known for her roles in mid-20th-century American cinema.
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E.
The Well
The Well is a 1997 Australian psychological thriller film in which Miranda Otto gives a critically acclaimed performance as a young woman entangled in a tense, isolating relationship with her guardian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor
NERFINISHED
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Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo International Film Festival Best Actor Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo International Film Festival Best Actress Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| director | Wu Tianming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | China Film Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Zhou Ying NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Shaanxi Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRuntime | approximately 120 minutes ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Gong Li
NERFINISHED
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Guo Shaoyun NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Old Well NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Zhao Jiping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
resource scarcity
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social change in rural China ⓘ |
| hasTitleInChinese | 老井 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family responsibility
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love triangle ⓘ rural hardship ⓘ water scarcity ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | villagers searching for water ⓘ |
| notableFor | acclaimed cinematography ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| partOfMovement | Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | Chinese rural life in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| producer | Xi’an Film Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| releaseType | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Wu Tianming
NERFINISHED
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Zheng Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | rural China ⓘ |
| starredActor | Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Old Well Description of subject: Old Well is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Wu Tianming and noted for its acclaimed cinematography by Zhang Yimou.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.