Emir Kusturica
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Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor, and musician renowned for his surreal, darkly comic films such as "Time of the Gypsies" and "Underground," which have won multiple major international awards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emir Kusturica canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5457863 — 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: Emir Kusturica Context triple: [University of Sarajevo, hasNotableAlumni, Emir Kusturica]
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A.
Goran Bregović
Goran Bregović is a renowned Bosnian musician and composer known for blending Balkan folk traditions with rock and orchestral music, and for his influential film scores and performances with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra.
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B.
Branko Šegota
Branko Šegota is a former Canadian indoor and outdoor soccer forward best known as one of the top scorers in North American indoor soccer history.
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C.
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is an acclaimed Austrian film director and screenwriter known for his austere, unsettling dramas that critically examine modern society and human psychology.
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D.
Ranko Matasović
Ranko Matasović is a Croatian linguist and Indo-Europeanist known for his work on Celtic languages and historical linguistics.
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E.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov was a visionary Soviet-Armenian film director renowned for his highly poetic, visually innovative films such as "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and "The Color of Pomegranates."
- 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: Emir Kusturica Target entity description: Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor, and musician renowned for his surreal, darkly comic films such as "Time of the Gypsies" and "Underground," which have won multiple major international awards.
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A.
Goran Bregović
Goran Bregović is a renowned Bosnian musician and composer known for blending Balkan folk traditions with rock and orchestral music, and for his influential film scores and performances with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra.
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B.
Branko Šegota
Branko Šegota is a former Canadian indoor and outdoor soccer forward best known as one of the top scorers in North American indoor soccer history.
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C.
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is an acclaimed Austrian film director and screenwriter known for his austere, unsettling dramas that critically examine modern society and human psychology.
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D.
Ranko Matasović
Ranko Matasović is a Croatian linguist and Indo-Europeanist known for his work on Celtic languages and historical linguistics.
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E.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov was a visionary Soviet-Armenian film director renowned for his highly poetic, visually innovative films such as "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and "The Color of Pomegranates."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award
NERFINISHED
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César Award for Best Foreign Film NERFINISHED ⓘ FIPRESCI Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Palm for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Palme d'Or NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Emir Kusturica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
NERFINISHED
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Serbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convertedTo | Eastern Orthodoxy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| created | Drvengrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-11-24 ⓘ |
| directed |
Arizona Dream
NERFINISHED
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Black Cat, White Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Do You Remember Dolly Bell? NERFINISHED ⓘ Life Is a Miracle NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Milky Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Time of the Gypsies NERFINISHED ⓘ Underground NERFINISHED ⓘ When Father Was Away on Business NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Bosniak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | No Smoking Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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drama film ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Dunja Kusturica
NERFINISHED
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Stribor Kusturica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Bosnian
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Serbian ⓘ |
| movement | Yugoslav Black Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Emir Kusturica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arizona Dream
NERFINISHED
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Black Cat, White Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Do You Remember Dolly Bell? NERFINISHED ⓘ Life Is a Miracle NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Milky Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Time of the Gypsies NERFINISHED ⓘ Underground NERFINISHED ⓘ When Father Was Away on Business NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ musician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sarajevo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Serbian Orthodox Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Drvengrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Maja Kusturica 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: Emir Kusturica Description of subject: Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor, and musician renowned for his surreal, darkly comic films such as "Time of the Gypsies" and "Underground," which have won multiple major international awards.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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hasNotableAlumni
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Emir Kusturica
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