The Salesman
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The Salesman is an acclaimed 2016 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi that explores moral conflict and social tensions in contemporary Tehran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Salesman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5386005 — 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: The Salesman Context triple: [Iranian cinema, notableFilm, The Salesman]
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A.
The Offer
The Offer is a biographical drama miniseries that chronicles the tumultuous behind-the-scenes making of the classic film The Godfather.
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B.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day is a novella by Saul Bellow that follows a day in the life of a failed salesman confronting personal and financial ruin in mid-20th-century New York.
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C.
The Dresser
The Dresser is a 1983 British drama film, adapted from Ronald Harwood’s play, about the complex relationship between an aging Shakespearean actor and his devoted dresser during World War II.
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D.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
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E.
Road to Zanzibar
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, known as one of the early entries in their popular "Road to..." film series.
- 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: The Salesman Target entity description: The Salesman is an acclaimed 2016 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi that explores moral conflict and social tensions in contemporary Tehran.
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A.
The Offer
The Offer is a biographical drama miniseries that chronicles the tumultuous behind-the-scenes making of the classic film The Godfather.
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B.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day is a novella by Saul Bellow that follows a day in the life of a failed salesman confronting personal and financial ruin in mid-20th-century New York.
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C.
The Dresser
The Dresser is a 1983 British drama film, adapted from Ronald Harwood’s play, about the complex relationship between an aging Shakespearean actor and his devoted dresser during World War II.
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D.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
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E.
Road to Zanzibar
Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, known as one of the early entries in their popular "Road to..." film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian film
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film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
NERFINISHED
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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestActorAwardedTo | Shahab Hosseini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestScreenplayAwardedTo | Asghar Farhadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Hossein Jafarian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
moral conflict
ⓘ
social tensions ⓘ |
| director | Asghar Farhadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Cohen Media Group
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Memento Films Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hayedeh Safiyari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPlayWithinFilm | Death of a Salesman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
justice
ⓘ
marital strain ⓘ masculinity ⓘ privacy ⓘ revenge ⓘ shame ⓘ social class ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Death of a Salesman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metacriticScore | 85 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Sattar Oraki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of ethical ambiguity
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portrayal of contemporary Iranian middle class ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| producer | Asghar Farhadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Asghar Farhadi Production
NERFINISHED
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Memento Films Production NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| rottenTomatoesRating | 96 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 125 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Babak Karimi
NERFINISHED
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Shahab Hosseini NERFINISHED ⓘ Taraneh Alidoosti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Asghar Farhadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Salesman Description of subject: The Salesman is an acclaimed 2016 Iranian drama film directed by Asghar Farhadi that explores moral conflict and social tensions in contemporary Tehran.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.