Shadowlands
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Shadowlands is a biographical stage play and later film that poignantly depicts the relationship between author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Davidman, exploring themes of love, faith, and loss.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shadowlands canonical | 11 |
| Shadowlands (1993 film) | 1 |
| Shadowlands (album) | 1 |
| Shadowlands (stage play) | 1 |
| Shadowlands (television film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T584065 — 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: Shadowlands Context triple: [Claire Bloom, notableWork, Shadowlands]
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A.
The Guild
The Guild is a network of leading European research-intensive universities that collaborates to influence higher education and research policy and promote excellence in scholarship.
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B.
Saviors
Saviors is a studio album by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s band, known for its politically charged punk rock sound and socially conscious themes.
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C.
Lord of Djedu
Lord of Djedu is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian god Osiris, emphasizing his role as the chief deity and ruler of the cult center at Djedu (Busiris) in the Nile Delta.
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D.
Realm of the Four Parts
Realm of the Four Parts is the English translation of the Quechua name "Tawantinsuyu," referring to the vast, four-region domain of the Inca Empire in pre-Columbian South America.
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E.
Nine Worlds
Nine Worlds are the interconnected realms of existence in Norse mythology, encompassing the domains of gods, humans, giants, and other beings within the world-tree Yggdrasil.
- 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: Shadowlands Target entity description: Shadowlands is a biographical stage play and later film that poignantly depicts the relationship between author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Davidman, exploring themes of love, faith, and loss.
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A.
The Guild
The Guild is a network of leading European research-intensive universities that collaborates to influence higher education and research policy and promote excellence in scholarship.
-
B.
Saviors
Saviors is a studio album by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s band, known for its politically charged punk rock sound and socially conscious themes.
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C.
Lord of Djedu
Lord of Djedu is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian god Osiris, emphasizing his role as the chief deity and ruler of the cult center at Djedu (Busiris) in the Nile Delta.
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D.
Realm of the Four Parts
Realm of the Four Parts is the English translation of the Quechua name "Tawantinsuyu," referring to the vast, four-region domain of the Inca Empire in pre-Columbian South America.
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E.
Nine Worlds
Nine Worlds are the interconnected realms of existence in Norse mythology, encompassing the domains of gods, humans, giants, and other beings within the world-tree Yggdrasil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographical play
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film adaptation ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn |
the life of C. S. Lewis
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the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
Christian faith
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atheism to faith journey of Joy Davidman ⓘ family life of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman ⓘ intellectual life at Oxford ⓘ |
| explores |
the cost of love
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the meaning of faith in the face of tragedy ⓘ the tension between theology and personal suffering ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical drama
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religious drama ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
C. S. Lewis
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Joy Davidman ⓘ |
| medium |
cinema
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theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
emotional and spiritual transformation of C. S. Lewis
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the impact of romantic love on a Christian apologist ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | character-driven drama ⓘ |
| portrays |
C. S. Lewis as an Oxford don
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C. S. Lewis’s crisis of faith ⓘ C. S. Lewis’s relationship with his brother Warren Lewis ⓘ Joy Davidman as an American poet ⓘ the courtship of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman ⓘ the death of Joy Davidman ⓘ the illness of Joy Davidman ⓘ |
| setting | Oxford ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Christian audiences
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adult ⓘ fans of C. S. Lewis ⓘ |
| theme |
faith
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grief ⓘ loss ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ suffering ⓘ the problem of pain ⓘ |
| tone |
introspective
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poignant ⓘ |
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: Shadowlands Description of subject: Shadowlands is a biographical stage play and later film that poignantly depicts the relationship between author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Davidman, exploring themes of love, faith, and loss.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Richard Attenborough
this entity surface form:
Shadowlands (stage play)
this entity surface form:
Shadowlands (television film)
this entity surface form:
Shadowlands (1993 film)
this entity surface form:
Shadowlands (album)