Nanban
E742940
Nanban is a 2012 Tamil-language comedy-drama film directed by Shankar, adapted from the Hindi film 3 Idiots and centered on the lives and friendships of three engineering students.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nanban canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8565089 — 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: Nanban Context triple: [Shankar, notableWork, Nanban]
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A.
Nanbu
Nanbu is a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural landscape and location near the border with Yamanashi Prefecture.
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B.
Nanzan
Nanzan was one of the three rival polities on Okinawa Island during the Sanzan period, which was eventually unified into the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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C.
Taburao
Taburao is a village on the atoll of Abaiang in the island nation of Kiribati.
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D.
Bugis
The Bugis are a seafaring Austronesian ethnic group from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known historically as skilled sailors, traders, and navigators.
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E.
Munakata
Munakata is a coastal city in Japan known for its ancient Munakata Taisha Shinto shrines and its location in northern Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu Island.
- 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: Nanban Target entity description: Nanban is a 2012 Tamil-language comedy-drama film directed by Shankar, adapted from the Hindi film 3 Idiots and centered on the lives and friendships of three engineering students.
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A.
Nanbu
Nanbu is a town in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural landscape and location near the border with Yamanashi Prefecture.
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B.
Nanzan
Nanzan was one of the three rival polities on Okinawa Island during the Sanzan period, which was eventually unified into the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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C.
Taburao
Taburao is a village on the atoll of Abaiang in the island nation of Kiribati.
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D.
Bugis
The Bugis are a seafaring Austronesian ethnic group from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, known historically as skilled sailors, traders, and navigators.
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E.
Munakata
Munakata is a coastal city in Japan known for its ancient Munakata Taisha Shinto shrines and its location in northern Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tamil-language film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | 3 Idiots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationType | official remake ⓘ |
| alternateScriptWriter | Madhan Karky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | 3 Idiots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkLanguage | Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercial success ⓘ |
| certificate | U ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Manoj Paramahamsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| dialoguesBy | Madhan Karky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Shankar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Gemini Film Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Chennai
NERFINISHED
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Ooty NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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comedy-drama ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasSong |
Asku Laska
NERFINISHED
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En Frienda Pola NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartiley Battery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Tamil ⓘ |
| leadCharacterProfession | engineering student ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
education system
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friendship ⓘ pursuit of passion ⓘ |
| musicBy | Harris Jayaraj NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| posterLanguage | Tamil ⓘ |
| producedBy | Gemini Film Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Gemini Film Circuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2012-01-12 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| remadeFromLanguage | Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| remakeOf | 3 Idiots NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 187 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Shankar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | engineering college ⓘ |
| stars |
Ileana D'Cruz
NERFINISHED
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Jiiva NERFINISHED ⓘ S. J. Suryah NERFINISHED ⓘ Sathyaraj NERFINISHED ⓘ Srikanth NERFINISHED ⓘ Vijay 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: Nanban Description of subject: Nanban is a 2012 Tamil-language comedy-drama film directed by Shankar, adapted from the Hindi film 3 Idiots and centered on the lives and friendships of three engineering students.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.