Bimal Roy
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Bimal Roy was a renowned Indian film director celebrated for his socially conscious, realist storytelling and classic Hindi films such as "Do Bigha Zamin" and "Bandini."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bimal Roy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6967944 — 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: Bimal Roy Context triple: [Golden Age of Hindi cinema, notableDirector, Bimal Roy]
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A.
Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt was a pioneering Indian filmmaker and actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned for his poetic, melancholic cinema and classics like "Pyaasa" and "Kaagaz Ke Phool."
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B.
M.S. Sathyu
M.S. Sathyu is an acclaimed Indian film director best known for his socially conscious and politically charged works, including the landmark film "Garm Hava," which helped define the parallel cinema movement.
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C.
Govind Nihalani
Govind Nihalani is an acclaimed Indian cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work in parallel cinema and socially conscious films.
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D.
Kamal Amrohi
Kamal Amrohi was a renowned Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for classic Hindi cinema works such as "Mahal" and "Pakeezah."
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E.
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen was a renowned Indian film director and a leading figure of parallel cinema, celebrated for his socially and politically charged films.
- 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: Bimal Roy Target entity description: Bimal Roy was a renowned Indian film director celebrated for his socially conscious, realist storytelling and classic Hindi films such as "Do Bigha Zamin" and "Bandini."
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A.
Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt was a pioneering Indian filmmaker and actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned for his poetic, melancholic cinema and classics like "Pyaasa" and "Kaagaz Ke Phool."
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B.
M.S. Sathyu
M.S. Sathyu is an acclaimed Indian film director best known for his socially conscious and politically charged works, including the landmark film "Garm Hava," which helped define the parallel cinema movement.
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C.
Govind Nihalani
Govind Nihalani is an acclaimed Indian cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work in parallel cinema and socially conscious films.
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D.
Kamal Amrohi
Kamal Amrohi was a renowned Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for classic Hindi cinema works such as "Mahal" and "Pakeezah."
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E.
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen was a renowned Indian film director and a leading figure of parallel cinema, celebrated for his socially and politically charged films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Filmfare Award for Best Director
NERFINISHED
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National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Bimal Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | India ⓘ |
| directed |
Bandini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Biraj Bahu NERFINISHED ⓘ Devdas (1955 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Do Bigha Zamin NERFINISHED ⓘ Madhumati NERFINISHED ⓘ Parineeta NERFINISHED ⓘ Sujata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
Bimal Roy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bimal Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
realist cinema
ⓘ
social drama ⓘ |
| hasChild | Rinki Bhattacharya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Rinki Bhattacharya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Manobina Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
Hindi cinema
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indian film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Indian parallel cinema movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
realist filmmaking style
ⓘ
socially conscious storytelling ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Indian parallel cinema
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
social realism ⓘ |
| name | Bimal Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian ⓘ |
| notableFor | classic Hindi films of the 1950s and 1960s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bandini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Biraj Bahu NERFINISHED ⓘ Devdas (1955 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Do Bigha Zamin NERFINISHED ⓘ Madhumati NERFINISHED ⓘ Parineeta NERFINISHED ⓘ Sujata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| style | lyrical realism ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Bimal Roy: The Man Who Spoke in Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Bombay
NERFINISHED
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Mumbai 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: Bimal Roy Description of subject: Bimal Roy was a renowned Indian film director celebrated for his socially conscious, realist storytelling and classic Hindi films such as "Do Bigha Zamin" and "Bandini."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.