Kafka
E735091
Kafka is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh that blends biographical elements of writer Franz Kafka’s life with surreal, Kafkaesque fiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kafka canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8450208 — 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: Kafka Context triple: [Steven Soderbergh, notableWork, Kafka]
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A.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform widely used for building real-time data pipelines and messaging systems.
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B.
Kafka y sus precursores
Kafka y sus precursores es un célebre ensayo de Jorge Luis Borges en el que analiza la obra de Franz Kafka a través de sus antecedentes literarios y la idea de que un autor puede crear a sus precursores.
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C.
Georg Kafka
Georg Kafka was a member of the Kafka family and a relative of the renowned writer Franz Kafka.
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D.
Gabriele Kafka
Gabriele Kafka was one of Franz Kafka’s sisters, a member of the Kafka family in early 20th-century Prague.
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E.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a 20th-century Bohemian novelist and short-story writer whose surreal, existential works like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" profoundly shaped modern literature.
- 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: Kafka Target entity description: Kafka is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh that blends biographical elements of writer Franz Kafka’s life with surreal, Kafkaesque fiction.
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A.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform widely used for building real-time data pipelines and messaging systems.
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B.
Kafka y sus precursores
Kafka y sus precursores es un célebre ensayo de Jorge Luis Borges en el que analiza la obra de Franz Kafka a través de sus antecedentes literarios y la idea de que un autor puede crear a sus precursores.
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C.
Georg Kafka
Georg Kafka was a member of the Kafka family and a relative of the renowned writer Franz Kafka.
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D.
Gabriele Kafka
Gabriele Kafka was one of Franz Kafka’s sisters, a member of the Kafka family in early 20th-century Prague.
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E.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a 20th-century Bohemian novelist and short-story writer whose surreal, existential works like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial" profoundly shaped modern literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alternateVersionTitle | Mr. Kneff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Franz Kafka ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Walt Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Steven Soderbergh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editor | Steven Mirrione NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | insurance clerk ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasBlackAndWhiteSequences | true ⓘ |
| hasColorSequences | true ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasElement |
conspiracy
ⓘ
mysterious organization ⓘ secret police ⓘ |
| hasMainSubject | Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
Kafkaesque
ⓘ
surreal ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
authoritarianism
ⓘ
bureaucracy ⓘ identity ⓘ paranoia ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Cliff Martinez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fictionalized biography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Kafkaesque visual style
ⓘ
blend of biography and surreal fiction ⓘ |
| partOf | Steven Soderbergh filmography ⓘ |
| portrays | Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Harry Benn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lem Dobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alec Guinness
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ian Holm NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeremy Irons NERFINISHED ⓘ Joel Grey NERFINISHED ⓘ Theresa Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Kafka Description of subject: Kafka is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh that blends biographical elements of writer Franz Kafka’s life with surreal, Kafkaesque fiction.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.