The Insect Woman
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The Insect Woman is a 1963 Japanese drama film by Shōhei Imamura that follows a resilient rural woman’s struggle to survive and adapt amid Japan’s rapid postwar social and economic changes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Insect Woman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8624577 — 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: The Insect Woman Context triple: [Imamura Shohei, notableWork, The Insect Woman]
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A.
The Spider Woman
The Spider Woman is a 1943 Sherlock Holmes mystery film in which Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce investigate a series of bizarre deaths linked to a sinister femme fatale.
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B.
The Wasp
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C.
The Pupa
The Pupa is a mysterious, evolving alien organism in the animated series "Solar Opposites" destined to eventually terraform and reshape the Earth.
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D.
Worm Man
"Worm Man" is a song by the Misfits, featured on their 1987 album "Halfway to Sanity," known for its horror punk style and macabre themes.
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E.
Invisible Creature
Invisible Creature is a graphic design and illustration studio known for its distinctive album artwork and visual branding for prominent music artists and brands.
- 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: The Insect Woman Target entity description: The Insect Woman is a 1963 Japanese drama film by Shōhei Imamura that follows a resilient rural woman’s struggle to survive and adapt amid Japan’s rapid postwar social and economic changes.
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A.
The Spider Woman
The Spider Woman is a 1943 Sherlock Holmes mystery film in which Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce investigate a series of bizarre deaths linked to a sinister femme fatale.
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B.
The Wasp
The Wasp is a Marvel superhero, often portrayed as a size-changing, flying Avenger who fights alongside Ant-Man using advanced Pym particle technology.
-
C.
The Pupa
The Pupa is a mysterious, evolving alien organism in the animated series "Solar Opposites" destined to eventually terraform and reshape the Earth.
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D.
Worm Man
"Worm Man" is a song by the Misfits, featured on their 1987 album "Halfway to Sanity," known for its horror punk style and macabre themes.
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E.
Invisible Creature
Invisible Creature is a graphic design and illustration studio known for its distinctive album artwork and visual branding for prominent music artists and brands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
1960s film
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film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Silver Bear for Best Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedBy | Sachiko Hidari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Chōchō Miyako
NERFINISHED
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Eijirō Tōno NERFINISHED ⓘ Jūkichi Uno NERFINISHED ⓘ Kazuo Kitamura NERFINISHED ⓘ Kei Satō NERFINISHED ⓘ Masumi Harukawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sachiko Hidari NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanie Kitabayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Shinsaku Himeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| director | Shōhei Imamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Nikkatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Mutsuo Tanji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| follows | a rural woman’s struggle to survive and adapt ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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social drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | adult themes ⓘ |
| hasJapaneseTitle | Nippon konchūki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | sex worker ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
economic change
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female resilience ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| musicBy | Toshiro Mayuzumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | life of a lower-class rural woman over several decades ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| partOf | Shōhei Imamura filmography ⓘ |
| portrays |
exploitation of women
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patriarchal Japanese society ⓘ urban migration ⓘ |
| producer | Tomio Ikeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Nikkatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1963 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 123 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Shōhei Imamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | postwar Japan ⓘ |
| stars | Sachiko Hidari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleInJapanese | 日本昆虫記 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: The Insect Woman Description of subject: The Insect Woman is a 1963 Japanese drama film by Shōhei Imamura that follows a resilient rural woman’s struggle to survive and adapt amid Japan’s rapid postwar social and economic changes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.