Zubeidaa
E481991
Zubeidaa is a 2001 Indian biographical drama film directed by Shyam Benegal, known for its portrayal of a free-spirited actress who becomes entangled in royal politics and personal tragedy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zubeidaa canonical | 3 |
| Zubeidaa in Zubeidaa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4951560 — 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: Zubeidaa Context triple: [Shyam Benegal, notableWork, Zubeidaa]
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A.
Juwayriya
Juwayriya was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as one of the Mothers of the Believers in Islamic tradition.
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B.
Aziza
Aziza is a traditional deity revered in Urhobo religion, associated with spiritual protection and guidance within the culture of the Urhobo people of Nigeria.
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C.
Arwa bint Kurayz
Arwa bint Kurayz was a woman of the Quraysh tribe in early Islamic history, best known as the mother of the third Rashidun caliph, Uthman ibn Affan.
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D.
Zohra
Zohra is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Miramar," which centers on the lives and conflicts of residents in a pension in Alexandria, Egypt.
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E.
Mihr-un-Nissa
Mihr-un-Nissa, better known by her royal title Nur Jahan, was a powerful and influential Mughal empress and the twentieth wife of Emperor Jahangir, renowned for her political acumen and cultural patronage in 17th-century India.
- 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: Zubeidaa Target entity description: Zubeidaa is a 2001 Indian biographical drama film directed by Shyam Benegal, known for its portrayal of a free-spirited actress who becomes entangled in royal politics and personal tragedy.
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A.
Juwayriya
Juwayriya was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as one of the Mothers of the Believers in Islamic tradition.
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B.
Aziza
Aziza is a traditional deity revered in Urhobo religion, associated with spiritual protection and guidance within the culture of the Urhobo people of Nigeria.
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C.
Arwa bint Kurayz
Arwa bint Kurayz was a woman of the Quraysh tribe in early Islamic history, best known as the mother of the third Rashidun caliph, Uthman ibn Affan.
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D.
Zohra
Zohra is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Miramar," which centers on the lives and conflicts of residents in a pension in Alexandria, Egypt.
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E.
Mihr-un-Nissa
Mihr-un-Nissa, better known by her royal title Nur Jahan, was a powerful and influential Mughal empress and the twentieth wife of Emperor Jahangir, renowned for her political acumen and cultural patronage in 17th-century India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian film
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biographical drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| award |
National Film Award for Best Costume Design
NERFINISHED
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National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Zubeida Begum ⓘ |
| castMember |
Amrish Puri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Farida Jalal NERFINISHED ⓘ Karisma Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillete Dubey NERFINISHED ⓘ Manoj Bajpayee NERFINISHED ⓘ Rajit Kapur NERFINISHED ⓘ Rekha NERFINISHED ⓘ Shakti Kapoor NERFINISHED ⓘ Smita Jaykar NERFINISHED ⓘ Surekha Sikri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | story of a free-spirited actress ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Rajen Kothari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| director | Shyam Benegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Zee Telefilms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Aseem Sinha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasSoundtrack | Zubeidaa (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Hindi ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Karisma Kapoor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manoj Bajpayee NERFINISHED ⓘ Rekha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Javed Akhtar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicComposer | A. R. Rahman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | flashback structure ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Zee Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement |
personal tragedy
ⓘ
royal politics ⓘ |
| producer |
Shyam Benegal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zee Telefilms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Shyam Benegal Sahyadri Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 153 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Khalid Mohamed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | princely state in pre-independence India ⓘ |
| songComposer | A. R. Rahman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
clash between tradition and modernity
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identity ⓘ love and sacrifice ⓘ royal politics ⓘ women’s freedom ⓘ |
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: Zubeidaa Description of subject: Zubeidaa is a 2001 Indian biographical drama film directed by Shyam Benegal, known for its portrayal of a free-spirited actress who becomes entangled in royal politics and personal tragedy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zubeidaa in Zubeidaa