A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.
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The Stalker is a philosophical science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky that follows a mysterious guide leading two men through a surreal, forbidden Zone rumored to fulfill their innermost desires.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9046017 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires. Context triple: [Stalker, plotSummary, A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.]
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A.
the Guide
The Guide is a key character in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Exception and the Rule," serving as the local escort who accompanies the Merchant across the desert and highlights the play’s themes of class tension and mistrust.
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B.
the Guide
The Guide is an honorific title referring to Ali al-Hadi, the tenth Shia Imam, emphasizing his role in providing spiritual and religious guidance to the Muslim community.
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C.
The Guide
The Guide is the fictional, electronic travel guidebook central to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," known for its humorous and irreverent entries about life in the universe.
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D.
The Guide
"The Guide" is a track by Kid Cudi from his album "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'" that showcases his introspective, atmospheric hip-hop style.
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E.
Wommat (The Guide)
Wommat (The Guide) is a landmark 1994 world music album by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour that helped bring his blend of mbalax and pop to a global audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires. Target entity description: The Stalker is a philosophical science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky that follows a mysterious guide leading two men through a surreal, forbidden Zone rumored to fulfill their innermost desires.
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A.
the Guide
The Guide is a key character in Bertolt Brecht’s play "The Exception and the Rule," serving as the local escort who accompanies the Merchant across the desert and highlights the play’s themes of class tension and mistrust.
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B.
the Guide
The Guide is an honorific title referring to Ali al-Hadi, the tenth Shia Imam, emphasizing his role in providing spiritual and religious guidance to the Muslim community.
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C.
The Guide
The Guide is the fictional, electronic travel guidebook central to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," known for its humorous and irreverent entries about life in the universe.
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D.
The Guide
"The Guide" is a track by Kid Cudi from his album "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'" that showcases his introspective, atmospheric hip-hop style.
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E.
Wommat (The Guide)
Wommat (The Guide) is a landmark 1994 world music album by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour that helped bring his blend of mbalax and pop to a global audience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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philosophical film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| award | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes (special mention, 1980) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Roadside Picnic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy |
Arkady Strugatsky
NERFINISHED
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Boris Strugatsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Alexander Knyazhinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | combination of sepia and color sequences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| director | Andrei Tarkovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Mosfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Lyudmila Feiginova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Estonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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philosophical film ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| influenced |
Annihilation (film)
NERFINISHED
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
the Professor
NERFINISHED
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the Stalker NERFINISHED ⓘ the Writer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Eduard Artemyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long tracking shots
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philosophical dialogue ⓘ slow contemplative pacing ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires. ⓘ |
| producer | Aleksandra Demidova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 163 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Arkady Strugatsky
NERFINISHED
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Boris Strugatsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
the Zone
NERFINISHED
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unnamed industrial region ⓘ |
| theme |
desire
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ethics of wish fulfillment ⓘ faith ⓘ hope and despair ⓘ the nature of reality ⓘ |
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: A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires. Description of subject: The Stalker is a philosophical science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky that follows a mysterious guide leading two men through a surreal, forbidden Zone rumored to fulfill their innermost desires.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Stalker
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plotSummary
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A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.
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