For Sama
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For Sama is a 2019 Syrian documentary film that chronicles filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab’s life, love, and motherhood amid the siege of Aleppo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| For Sama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7493471 — 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: For Sama Context triple: [BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, notableWinner, For Sama]
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A.
Sama Gaun
Sama Gaun is a remote Himalayan village in Nepal that serves as a key acclimatization and trekking stop on the Manaslu Circuit near Mount Manaslu.
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B.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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C.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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D.
Mama
"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
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E.
Amal
Amal is a feminine given name of Arabic origin meaning "hope" or "aspiration," used in various cultures around the world.
- 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: For Sama Target entity description: For Sama is a 2019 Syrian documentary film that chronicles filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab’s life, love, and motherhood amid the siege of Aleppo.
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A.
Sama Gaun
Sama Gaun is a remote Himalayan village in Nepal that serves as a key acclimatization and trekking stop on the Manaslu Circuit near Mount Manaslu.
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B.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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C.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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D.
Mama
"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
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E.
Amal
Amal is a feminine given name of Arabic origin meaning "hope" or "aspiration," used in various cultures around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Syrian film
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documentary film ⓘ war documentary ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
NERFINISHED
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British Independent Film Award for Best Director NERFINISHED ⓘ British Independent Film Award for Best Documentary NERFINISHED ⓘ British Independent Film Award for Best Editing NERFINISHED ⓘ L’Œil d’or – Cannes Documentary Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Waad Al-Kateab’s video diaries from Aleppo ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
Edward Watts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Waad Al-Kateab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Channel 4
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PBS Frontline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor |
Chloe Lambourne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simon McMahon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Hamza Al-Kateab
NERFINISHED
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Sama Al-Kateab NERFINISHED ⓘ Waad Al-Kateab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
autobiographical film
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documentary ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| narrator | Waad Al-Kateab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 2019 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Channel 4 News
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edward Watts NERFINISHED ⓘ Waad Al-Kateab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Channel 4 News
NERFINISHED
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ITN Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseCountry |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenedInSection | Special Screenings at Cannes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Aleppo
NERFINISHED
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Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Siege of Aleppo
NERFINISHED
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Syrian civil war NERFINISHED ⓘ life in wartime NERFINISHED ⓘ motherhood ⓘ |
| theme |
civilian experience of war
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family ⓘ love in wartime ⓘ |
| title | For Sama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Edward Watts
NERFINISHED
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Waad Al-Kateab 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: For Sama Description of subject: For Sama is a 2019 Syrian documentary film that chronicles filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab’s life, love, and motherhood amid the siege of Aleppo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.