Kalyug
E481985
Kalyug is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Shyam Benegal that reimagines the Mahabharata in a modern industrial and corporate setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kalyug canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4951553 — 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: Kalyug Context triple: [Shyam Benegal, notableWork, Kalyug]
-
A.
Mahaprithibi
Mahaprithibi is a celebrated Bengali poetry collection by Jibanananda Das that reflects his modernist style and introspective, evocative imagery.
-
B.
Jagati
Jagati is a classical Vedic poetic meter characterized by longer lines, commonly used in hymns of the Rigveda.
-
C.
Kalki
Kalki is the prophesied future incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu who is foretold to appear at the end of the current age to restore righteousness and cosmic order.
-
D.
Varuṇaloka
Varuṇaloka is the mythological celestial realm associated with the Vedic deity Varuna, often envisioned as his divine oceanic or watery domain.
-
E.
Kali Yuga
Kali Yuga is the fourth and final age in the Hindu cyclical concept of time, characterized by moral decline, spiritual degradation, and the predominance of conflict and materialism.
- 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: Kalyug Target entity description: Kalyug is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Shyam Benegal that reimagines the Mahabharata in a modern industrial and corporate setting.
-
A.
Mahaprithibi
Mahaprithibi is a celebrated Bengali poetry collection by Jibanananda Das that reflects his modernist style and introspective, evocative imagery.
-
B.
Jagati
Jagati is a classical Vedic poetic meter characterized by longer lines, commonly used in hymns of the Rigveda.
-
C.
Kalki
Kalki is the prophesied future incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu who is foretold to appear at the end of the current age to restore righteousness and cosmic order.
-
D.
Varuṇaloka
Varuṇaloka is the mythological celestial realm associated with the Vedic deity Varuna, often envisioned as his divine oceanic or watery domain.
-
E.
Kali Yuga
Kali Yuga is the fourth and final age in the Hindu cyclical concept of time, characterized by moral decline, spiritual degradation, and the predominance of conflict and materialism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hindi-language film
ⓘ
Indian film ⓘ drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy | Nitish Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mahabharata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Govind Nihalani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| dialoguesBy | Satyadev Dubey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Shyam Benegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Film-Valas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Bhanudas Divakar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmColor | color ⓘ |
| filmingCountry | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | Kalyug NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Vanraj Bhatia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | contemporary retelling of the Mahabharata ⓘ |
| notableFor | modern corporate reimagining of the Mahabharata ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hindi ⓘ |
| partOf | Indian parallel cinema ⓘ |
| portrays | contemporary version of Kaurava-Pandava rivalry ⓘ |
| producer | Shashi Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Film-Valas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 152 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Girish Karnad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shyam Benegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
corporate setting
ⓘ
modern industrial setting ⓘ |
| stars |
Anant Nag
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kulbhushan Kharbanda NERFINISHED ⓘ Raj Babbar NERFINISHED ⓘ Rekha NERFINISHED ⓘ Shashi Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ Sushma Seth NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
corporate power struggle
ⓘ
family business rivalry ⓘ modern interpretation of epic conflict ⓘ |
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: Kalyug Description of subject: Kalyug is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Shyam Benegal that reimagines the Mahabharata in a modern industrial and corporate setting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.