English Vinglish
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English Vinglish is a 2012 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Gauri Shinde, following a homemaker’s journey to regain confidence and respect by secretly learning English.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| English Vinglish canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5884880 — 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: English Vinglish Context triple: [Adil Hussain, notableWork, English Vinglish]
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A.
Hindi Medium
Hindi Medium is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film that critiques India’s education system and social class divide, starring Irrfan Khan in a widely acclaimed lead role.
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B.
English (film)
English (film) is a cinematic work produced in the English language, likely featuring the character Rita Vrataski.
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C.
The Lunchbox
The Lunchbox is a critically acclaimed 2013 Indian romantic drama film that tells the story of an unlikely epistolary relationship sparked by a misdelivered lunchbox in Mumbai.
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D.
Maqbool
Maqbool is a critically acclaimed 2003 Indian crime drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which adapts Shakespeare’s Macbeth into the Mumbai underworld and features Irrfan Khan in a powerful lead role.
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E.
Ten Indians
"Ten Indians" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that appears in his collection *Men Without Women*, exploring themes of racism, adolescence, and emotional disillusionment.
- 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: English Vinglish Target entity description: English Vinglish is a 2012 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Gauri Shinde, following a homemaker’s journey to regain confidence and respect by secretly learning English.
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A.
Hindi Medium
Hindi Medium is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film that critiques India’s education system and social class divide, starring Irrfan Khan in a widely acclaimed lead role.
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B.
English (film)
English (film) is a cinematic work produced in the English language, likely featuring the character Rita Vrataski.
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C.
The Lunchbox
The Lunchbox is a critically acclaimed 2013 Indian romantic drama film that tells the story of an unlikely epistolary relationship sparked by a misdelivered lunchbox in Mumbai.
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D.
Maqbool
Maqbool is a critically acclaimed 2003 Indian crime drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which adapts Shakespeare’s Macbeth into the Mumbai underworld and features Irrfan Khan in a powerful lead role.
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E.
Ten Indians
"Ten Indians" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that appears in his collection *Men Without Women*, exploring themes of racism, adolescence, and emotional disillusionment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercially successful ⓘ |
| cameoAppearance | Amitabh Bachchan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Laxman Utekar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| criticalReception | positive ⓘ |
| director | Gauri Shinde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Eros International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hemanti Sarkar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDebutOf | Gauri Shinde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Tamil ⓘ Telugu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActressComeback | Sridevi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Shashi Godbole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marksReturnToCinemaAfterYears | 15 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Amit Trivedi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A homemaker enrolls in an English-speaking course to stop her husband and daughter from mocking her lack of English skills and to regain her self-respect. ⓘ |
| producer |
Kumar N. S.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
R. Balki NERFINISHED ⓘ R. K. Damani NERFINISHED ⓘ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunil Lulla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Eros International
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hope Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2012-10-05 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| remadeOrDubbedIn |
Tamil
ⓘ
Telugu ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 134 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | 2012 Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sectionScreenedIn | Gala Presentations at Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City
ⓘ
Pune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Adil Hussain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mehdi Nebbou NERFINISHED ⓘ Navika Kotia NERFINISHED ⓘ Priya Anand NERFINISHED ⓘ Shivansh Kotia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sridevi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sujata Kumar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
female empowerment
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language and identity ⓘ self-respect ⓘ |
| writer | Gauri Shinde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: English Vinglish Description of subject: English Vinglish is a 2012 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Gauri Shinde, following a homemaker’s journey to regain confidence and respect by secretly learning English.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.