The Seventh Seal
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The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish existential drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its iconic imagery of a medieval knight playing chess with Death and its exploration of faith, mortality, and the human condition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Seventh Seal canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5399205 — 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 Seventh Seal Context triple: [Ingmar Bergman, notableWork, The Seventh Seal]
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A.
Taste of Cherry
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.
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B.
Jedermann
Jedermann is a famous morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that has become an iconic centerpiece of the annual Salzburg Festival.
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C.
The Swede
The Swede is a prominent and menacing antagonist in the television series "Hell on Wheels," known for his cold, calculating nature and complex relationship with the show's protagonists.
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D.
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.
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E.
Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata is a 1978 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its intense psychological portrayal of a strained mother-daughter relationship.
- 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 Seventh Seal Target entity description: The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish existential drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its iconic imagery of a medieval knight playing chess with Death and its exploration of faith, mortality, and the human condition.
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A.
Taste of Cherry
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.
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B.
Jedermann
Jedermann is a famous morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that has become an iconic centerpiece of the annual Salzburg Festival.
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C.
The Swede
The Swede is a prominent and menacing antagonist in the television series "Hell on Wheels," known for his cold, calculating nature and complex relationship with the show's protagonists.
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D.
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.
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E.
Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata is a 1978 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its intense psychological portrayal of a strained mother-daughter relationship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
existentialist film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Trämålning
NERFINISHED
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Wood Painting ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | one-act play ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gunnar Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| director | Ingmar Bergman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Svensk Filmindustri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Lennart Wallén NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmMovement | European art cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
art film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ fantasy ⓘ philosophical film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Antonius Block
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Death NERFINISHED ⓘ Jof NERFINISHED ⓘ Jöns NERFINISHED ⓘ Mia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | iconic imagery of a knight playing chess with Death ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Swedish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Det sjunde inseglet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | chess game with Death ⓘ |
| producedBy | Allan Ekelund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Svensk Filmindustri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
classic of world cinema
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landmark of Swedish cinema ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1957-02-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Ingmar Bergman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDuring | Black Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Bengt Ekerot
NERFINISHED
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Bibi Andersson NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunnar Björnstrand NERFINISHED ⓘ Max von Sydow NERFINISHED ⓘ Nils Poppe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
faith
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mortality ⓘ the human condition ⓘ the meaning of life ⓘ the silence of God NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Seventh Seal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Ingmar Bergman 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: The Seventh Seal Description of subject: The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish existential drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, renowned for its iconic imagery of a medieval knight playing chess with Death and its exploration of faith, mortality, and the human condition.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.