Offside
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Offside is a 2006 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Jafar Panahi that follows a group of young women who disguise themselves as men to sneak into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Tehran, highlighting gender discrimination in Iran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Offside canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5386011 — 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: Offside Context triple: [Iranian cinema, notableFilm, Offside]
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A.
Off-Side
Off-Side is a celebrated play by South African writer Ronnie Govender that explores apartheid-era racial tensions and community life through the lens of local football culture.
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B.
The Corner Kick
The Corner Kick is a method of restarting play in association football, awarded to the attacking team when the ball crosses the goal line last touched by a defender without resulting in a goal.
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C.
Going to the Match
"Going to the Match" is a famous painting by English artist L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of football supporters heading toward a stadium in his distinctive industrial, matchstick-figure style.
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D.
The Goal Kick
The Goal Kick is a method of restarting play in association football, awarded to the defending team when the ball crosses their goal line last touched by an opponent without resulting in a goal.
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E.
Shooting into the Corner
Shooting into the Corner is a large-scale installation by artist Anish Kapoor that dramatically fires red wax into a gallery corner, exploring themes of violence, materiality, and spectacle.
- 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: Offside Target entity description: Offside is a 2006 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Jafar Panahi that follows a group of young women who disguise themselves as men to sneak into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Tehran, highlighting gender discrimination in Iran.
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A.
Off-Side
Off-Side is a celebrated play by South African writer Ronnie Govender that explores apartheid-era racial tensions and community life through the lens of local football culture.
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B.
The Corner Kick
The Corner Kick is a method of restarting play in association football, awarded to the attacking team when the ball crosses the goal line last touched by a defender without resulting in a goal.
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C.
Going to the Match
"Going to the Match" is a famous painting by English artist L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of football supporters heading toward a stadium in his distinctive industrial, matchstick-figure style.
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D.
The Goal Kick
The Goal Kick is a method of restarting play in association football, awarded to the defending team when the ball crosses their goal line last touched by an opponent without resulting in a goal.
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E.
Shooting into the Corner
Shooting into the Corner is a large-scale installation by artist Anish Kapoor that dramatically fires red wax into a gallery corner, exploring themes of violence, materiality, and spectacle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
FIPRESCI Prize (Berlin International Film Festival)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| censorshipStatusInIran | banned from public screening ⓘ |
| cinematographicStyle | realist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Jafar Panahi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorNationality | Iranian ⓘ |
| distributionType | international art-house release ⓘ |
| era | 21st-century Iranian cinema ⓘ |
| festivalScreening | Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingContext | shot during an actual World Cup qualifying match ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
social drama ⓘ sports film ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | raised international awareness of restrictions on women in Iranian stadiums ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | female supporters of the national football team ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
football fandom
ⓘ
gender discrimination in Iran ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | humorous yet critical ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of realism and humor
ⓘ
critique of gender segregation in sports venues in Iran ⓘ use of non-professional actors ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| partOf | Jafar Panahi filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of young women disguise themselves as men to sneak into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Tehran. ⓘ |
| portrays |
Iranian society
ⓘ
ban on women entering football stadiums in Iran ⓘ military conscripts ⓘ |
| producer | Jafar Panahi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| runtimeApproximate | 90 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayBasedOn | real experiences of Iranian female football fans ⓘ |
| settingEvent | World Cup qualifying match ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportDepicted | association football ⓘ |
| subject |
FIFA World Cup qualification
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iran national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 2000s ⓘ |
| writer | Jafar Panahi 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: Offside Description of subject: Offside is a 2006 Iranian comedy-drama film directed by Jafar Panahi that follows a group of young women who disguise themselves as men to sneak into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Tehran, highlighting gender discrimination in Iran.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.