Malèna
E612019
Malèna is a 2000 Italian coming-of-age drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, known for its poignant portrayal of a beautiful war widow observed through the eyes of a young boy in World War II Sicily.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malèna canonical | 7 |
| Malèna (2000 film) | 2 |
| Malèna (franchise) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6700305 — 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: Malèna Context triple: [Lajos Koltai, notableWork, Malèna]
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A.
Amorina
Amorina is a 19th-century Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, known for its romantic and psychological depth within early modern Swedish literature.
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B.
Méjanelle
Méjanelle is a French wine-producing area recognized as a subregion within the broader Languedoc appellation in southern France.
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C.
Maiao
Maiao is a small, sparsely populated island in French Polynesia’s Society Islands, known for its traditional Polynesian lifestyle and limited accessibility.
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D.
Iole
Iole is a figure in Greek mythology, a princess of Oechalia whose relationship with Heracles ultimately leads to the jealousy of his wife Deianira and Heracles’ tragic death.
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E.
Marga
Marga is a feminine given name, commonly used as a short or diminutive form of names like Margarita or Margareta.
- 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: Malèna Target entity description: Malèna is a 2000 Italian coming-of-age drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, known for its poignant portrayal of a beautiful war widow observed through the eyes of a young boy in World War II Sicily.
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A.
Amorina
Amorina is a 19th-century Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, known for its romantic and psychological depth within early modern Swedish literature.
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B.
Méjanelle
Méjanelle is a French wine-producing area recognized as a subregion within the broader Languedoc appellation in southern France.
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C.
Maiao
Maiao is a small, sparsely populated island in French Polynesia’s Society Islands, known for its traditional Polynesian lifestyle and limited accessibility.
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D.
Iole
Iole is a figure in Greek mythology, a princess of Oechalia whose relationship with Heracles ultimately leads to the jealousy of his wife Deianira and Heracles’ tragic death.
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E.
Marga
Marga is a feminine given name, commonly used as a short or diminutive form of names like Margarita or Margareta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian film
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film ⓘ |
| ageRating | R (USA theatrical release) ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy | Andrea Crisanti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Lajos Koltai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Ennio Morricone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignBy | Maurizio Millenotti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| director | Giuseppe Tornatore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Medusa Film
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editedBy | Massimo Quaglia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmLocation | Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adolescence
ⓘ
gossip and ostracism ⓘ loneliness ⓘ sexual awakening ⓘ war and society ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Italian ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Malèna Scordia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Renato Amoroso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicGenre | film score ⓘ |
| narrator | Renato Amoroso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| portrays | war widow ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Medusa Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Malèna Scordia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateItaly | 2000-10-27 ⓘ |
| releaseEvent | 2000 Venice Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 109 ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Sicily NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Giuseppe Sulfaro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Luciano Federico NERFINISHED ⓘ Matilde Piana NERFINISHED ⓘ Monica Bellucci NERFINISHED ⓘ Pietro Notarianni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Giuseppe Tornatore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Luciano Vincenzoni 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: Malèna Description of subject: Malèna is a 2000 Italian coming-of-age drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, known for its poignant portrayal of a beautiful war widow observed through the eyes of a young boy in World War II Sicily.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Malèna (2000 film)
this entity surface form:
Malèna (2000 film)
this entity surface form:
Malèna (franchise)