Sarafina!
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Sarafina! is a 1992 South African musical drama film about a young girl’s coming-of-age during the Soweto uprising against apartheid.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarafina! canonical | 14 |
| Sarafina | 3 |
| Sarafina! (1992 film) | 2 |
| Sarafina! (stage musical) | 2 |
| Sarafina! 2 | 2 |
| Sarafina! (film) | 1 |
| Sarafina! (musical) | 1 |
| Sarafina! (stage play) | 1 |
| Sarafina! universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500310 — 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: Sarafina! Context triple: [Whoopi Goldberg, notableWork, Sarafina!]
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A.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
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B.
The Preacher's Wife
The Preacher's Wife is a 1996 romantic comedy-drama film starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington, known for its gospel-infused soundtrack and heartwarming holiday-themed story.
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C.
Gypsy
Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.
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D.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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E.
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy is a landmark 1982 play (later adapted into a film) by Harvey Fierstein that follows the life, loves, and struggles of a gay drag performer in New York City.
- 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: Sarafina! Target entity description: Sarafina! is a 1992 South African musical drama film about a young girl’s coming-of-age during the Soweto uprising against apartheid.
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A.
Out of Africa
Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
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B.
The Preacher's Wife
The Preacher's Wife is a 1996 romantic comedy-drama film starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington, known for its gospel-infused soundtrack and heartwarming holiday-themed story.
-
C.
Gypsy
Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.
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D.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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E.
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy is a landmark 1982 play (later adapted into a film) by Harvey Fierstein that follows the life, loves, and struggles of a gay drag performer in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Sarafina! Description of subject: Sarafina! is a 1992 South African musical drama film about a young girl’s coming-of-age during the Soweto uprising against apartheid.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (stage musical)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina
this entity surface form:
Sarafina
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (film)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (stage play)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! universe
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (musical)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! (stage musical)
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! 2
this entity surface form:
Sarafina! 2