Taste of Cherry
E515493
Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that follows a man driving around Tehran in search of someone willing to bury him after his planned suicide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taste of Cherry canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5386002 — 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: Taste of Cherry Context triple: [Iranian cinema, notableFilm, Taste of Cherry]
-
A.
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Blue is a 1993 French-Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski that explores grief, freedom, and emotional rebirth as part of his acclaimed Three Colors trilogy.
-
B.
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing is a 1988 Polish drama directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski that starkly explores the morality of capital punishment through a brutal murder and its legal aftermath.
-
C.
The Exterminating Angel
The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film by Luis Buñuel that satirically portrays upper-class guests mysteriously unable to leave a dinner party, exposing the fragility of social conventions.
-
D.
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is a 1987 German romantic fantasy film by Wim Wenders about invisible angels observing and empathizing with the lives of people in a divided Berlin.
-
E.
In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical drama film about the wrongful conviction of the Guildford Four, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and Daniel Day-Lewis’s intense lead performance.
- 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: Taste of Cherry Target entity description: Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that follows a man driving around Tehran in search of someone willing to bury him after his planned suicide.
-
A.
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Blue is a 1993 French-Polish drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski that explores grief, freedom, and emotional rebirth as part of his acclaimed Three Colors trilogy.
-
B.
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Killing is a 1988 Polish drama directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski that starkly explores the morality of capital punishment through a brutal murder and its legal aftermath.
-
C.
The Exterminating Angel
The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film by Luis Buñuel that satirically portrays upper-class guests mysteriously unable to leave a dinner party, exposing the fragility of social conventions.
-
D.
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire is a 1987 German romantic fantasy film by Wim Wenders about invisible angels observing and empathizing with the lives of people in a divided Berlin.
-
E.
In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical drama film about the wrongful conviction of the Guildford Four, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and Daniel Day-Lewis’s intense lead performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Palme d'Or NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedAt | 1997 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Homayoun Payvar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| director | Abbas Kiarostami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discusses |
individual freedom
ⓘ
social responsibility ⓘ |
| distributor | MK2 Diffusion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Abbas Kiarostami
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bahman Kiarostami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmMovement | Iranian New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | a man driving around Tehran in search of someone to bury him after his planned suicide ⓘ |
| genre |
art film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | color ⓘ |
| hasFilmTechnique |
long takes
ⓘ
minimalist style ⓘ non-professional actors ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
burial
ⓘ
suicidal ideation ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mr. Badii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | road movie structure ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | open-ended ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of ethical and religious views on suicide
ⓘ
use of ambiguous ending ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| partOf | Abbas Kiarostami filmography ⓘ |
| producer | Abbas Kiarostami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Abbas Kiarostami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundMix | mono ⓘ |
| stars |
Abdolrahman Bagheri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari NERFINISHED ⓘ Homayoun Ershadi NERFINISHED ⓘ Safar Ali Moradi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
death
ⓘ
existentialism ⓘ human connection ⓘ meaning of life ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
| worldPremiereEvent | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereYear | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Taste of Cherry Description of subject: Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that follows a man driving around Tehran in search of someone willing to bury him after his planned suicide.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.