Tareque Masud
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Tareque Masud was a pioneering Bangladeshi filmmaker and documentarian renowned for his socially and politically engaged cinema, including the acclaimed feature film "Matir Moina" ("The Clay Bird").
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tareque Masud canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7660470 — 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: Tareque Masud Context triple: [Matir Moina, director, Tareque Masud]
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A.
Faysal Ahmed
Faysal Ahmed is a Somali-American actor best known for his role as one of the pirates in the 2013 film "Captain Phillips."
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B.
Anisul Hoque
Anisul Hoque is a prominent Bangladeshi author, screenwriter, and journalist known for his novels, television dramas, and contributions to contemporary Bengali literature.
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C.
Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed was a prolific and hugely popular Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, and filmmaker whose novels and television dramas reshaped modern Bengali popular culture.
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D.
Ahsan Habib
Ahsan Habib is a Bangladeshi cartoonist, editor of the satire magazine Unmad, and younger brother of renowned writer Humayun Ahmed.
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E.
Syed Shamsul Haque
Syed Shamsul Haque was a prominent Bangladeshi writer and poet known for his significant contributions to modern Bengali literature across poetry, drama, and fiction.
- 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: Tareque Masud
Target entity description: Tareque Masud was a pioneering Bangladeshi filmmaker and documentarian renowned for his socially and politically engaged cinema, including the acclaimed feature film "Matir Moina" ("The Clay Bird").
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A.
Faysal Ahmed
Faysal Ahmed is a Somali-American actor best known for his role as one of the pirates in the 2013 film "Captain Phillips."
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B.
Anisul Hoque
Anisul Hoque is a prominent Bangladeshi author, screenwriter, and journalist known for his novels, television dramas, and contributions to contemporary Bengali literature.
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C.
Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed was a prolific and hugely popular Bangladeshi writer, dramatist, and filmmaker whose novels and television dramas reshaped modern Bengali popular culture.
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D.
Ahsan Habib
Ahsan Habib is a Bangladeshi cartoonist, editor of the satire magazine Unmad, and younger brother of renowned writer Humayun Ahmed.
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E.
Syed Shamsul Haque
Syed Shamsul Haque was a prominent Bangladeshi writer and poet known for his significant contributions to modern Bengali literature across poetry, drama, and fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bangladeshi person
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Bangladeshi film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
FIPRESCI Prize
NERFINISHED
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International Critics’ Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ National Film Award (Bangladesh) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | road accident ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Catherine Masud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-12-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-08-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Dhaka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Masud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema of Bangladesh
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documentary film on Liberation War of Bangladesh ⓘ |
| fullName | Tareque Masud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary film
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political cinema ⓘ socially engaged cinema ⓘ |
| givenName | Tareque NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Tareque Masud Memorial Award
NERFINISHED
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Tareque Masud Short Film Competition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
politically engaged films
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portraying the Liberation War of Bangladesh ⓘ socially conscious storytelling ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Bengali ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | traffic collision ⓘ |
| movement | independent cinema ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Matir Moina was the first Bangladeshi film to be released commercially in the United States
NERFINISHED
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Matir Moina won the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Matir Moina
NERFINISHED
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Muktir Gaan NERFINISHED ⓘ Muktir Kotha NERFINISHED ⓘ Ontarjatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Runway NERFINISHED ⓘ The Clay Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
documentary filmmaker
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
East Pakistan
NERFINISHED
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Faridpur District NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Bangladesh
NERFINISHED
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Manikganj District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| spouse | Catherine Masud 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: Tareque Masud
Description of subject: Tareque Masud was a pioneering Bangladeshi filmmaker and documentarian renowned for his socially and politically engaged cinema, including the acclaimed feature film "Matir Moina" ("The Clay Bird").
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.