A Separation
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A Separation is an acclaimed 2011 Iranian drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi that explores the moral and social complexities of a middle-class couple’s separation and its repercussions.
All labels observed (1)
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| A Separation canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5386004 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Separation Context triple: [Iranian cinema, notableFilm, A Separation]
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A.
Ajami
Ajami is an adapted form of the Arabic script historically used to write various African languages, including Pulaar, for religious, literary, and administrative purposes.
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B.
All About My Mother
All About My Mother is a 1999 Spanish drama film by Pedro Almodóvar that follows a grieving mother’s journey through friendship, identity, and womanhood in Madrid and Barcelona.
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C.
Incendies
Incendies is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, acclaimed for its powerful exploration of family secrets and the legacy of civil war in the Middle East.
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D.
Certified Copy
Certified Copy is a 2010 art-house drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, featuring Juliette Binoche as a woman whose ambiguous relationship with a writer blurs the line between reality and performance.
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E.
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.
- 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: A Separation Target entity description: A Separation is an acclaimed 2011 Iranian drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi that explores the moral and social complexities of a middle-class couple’s separation and its repercussions.
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A.
Ajami
Ajami is an adapted form of the Arabic script historically used to write various African languages, including Pulaar, for religious, literary, and administrative purposes.
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B.
All About My Mother
All About My Mother is a 1999 Spanish drama film by Pedro Almodóvar that follows a grieving mother’s journey through friendship, identity, and womanhood in Madrid and Barcelona.
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C.
Incendies
Incendies is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, acclaimed for its powerful exploration of family secrets and the legacy of civil war in the Middle East.
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D.
Certified Copy
Certified Copy is a 2010 art-house drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, featuring Juliette Binoche as a woman whose ambiguous relationship with a writer blurs the line between reality and performance.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian film
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film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
NERFINISHED
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Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ César Award for Best Foreign Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Fajr International Film Festival Crystal Simorgh for Best Director NERFINISHED ⓘ Fajr International Film Festival Crystal Simorgh for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Fajr International Film Festival Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Mahmoud Kalari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Asghar Farhadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hayedeh Safiyari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Hodjat
NERFINISHED
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Nader NERFINISHED ⓘ Razieh NERFINISHED ⓘ Simin NERFINISHED ⓘ Termeh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfStory | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
family conflict
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marital separation ⓘ moral dilemma ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| metacriticScore | 95 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Sattar Oraki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Jodaeiye Nader az Simin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 29th Fajr International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Asghar Farhadi
NERFINISHED
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Saeed Shahsavari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateIran | 2011-03-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| rottenTomatoesApprovalRating | 99% ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 123 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi
NERFINISHED
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Leila Hatami NERFINISHED ⓘ Peyman Moaadi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sareh Bayat NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarina Farhadi NERFINISHED ⓘ Shahab Hosseini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | A Separation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Asghar Farhadi 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: A Separation Description of subject: A Separation is an acclaimed 2011 Iranian drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi that explores the moral and social complexities of a middle-class couple’s separation and its repercussions.
Referenced by (4)
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