Epidemic
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Epidemic is a 1987 Danish experimental horror film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its meta-narrative about a screenwriter whose plague script eerily mirrors a real-world outbreak.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epidemic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9046267 — 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: Epidemic Context triple: [Lars von Trier, notableWork, Epidemic]
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A.
Outbreak
Outbreak is a 1995 medical disaster thriller film about a deadly, fast-spreading virus and the efforts of scientists and the military to contain it.
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B.
Public Health Emergency of International Concern
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern is a formal WHO designation for an extraordinary health event that poses a public health risk to multiple countries and may require a coordinated international response.
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C.
Epi
Epi is a volcanic island in central Vanuatu known for its lush landscapes, traditional villages, and surrounding coral reefs.
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D.
Outbreak of Antonine Plague
The Outbreak of the Antonine Plague was a devastating epidemic, likely smallpox, that swept through the Roman Empire in the late 2nd century CE, causing massive mortality and significant social and military disruption.
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E.
1918 influenza pandemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophic global outbreak of H1N1 influenza that infected a third of the world’s population and caused tens of millions of deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
- 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: Epidemic Target entity description: Epidemic is a 1987 Danish experimental horror film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its meta-narrative about a screenwriter whose plague script eerily mirrors a real-world outbreak.
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A.
Outbreak
Outbreak is a 1995 medical disaster thriller film about a deadly, fast-spreading virus and the efforts of scientists and the military to contain it.
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B.
Public Health Emergency of International Concern
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern is a formal WHO designation for an extraordinary health event that poses a public health risk to multiple countries and may require a coordinated international response.
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C.
Epi
Epi is a volcanic island in central Vanuatu known for its lush landscapes, traditional villages, and surrounding coral reefs.
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D.
Outbreak of Antonine Plague
The Outbreak of the Antonine Plague was a devastating epidemic, likely smallpox, that swept through the Roman Empire in the late 2nd century CE, causing massive mortality and significant social and military disruption.
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E.
1918 influenza pandemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophic global outbreak of H1N1 influenza that infected a third of the world’s population and caused tens of millions of deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Henning Bendtsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Lars von Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Zentropa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tómas Gislason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Europa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Element of Crime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental
ⓘ
horror ⓘ meta-fiction ⓘ |
| hasBlackAndWhiteSequences | true ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Kirsten Olesen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lars von Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ Niels Vørsel NERFINISHED ⓘ Udo Kier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Peter Bach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | meta-narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
low-budget production style
ⓘ
self-reflexive structure ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Danish ⓘ |
| partOf | Europa Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A screenwriter works on a script about a devastating plague that begins to parallel a real epidemic. ⓘ |
| producer | Lars von Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lars von Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Denmark 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: Epidemic Description of subject: Epidemic is a 1987 Danish experimental horror film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its meta-narrative about a screenwriter whose plague script eerily mirrors a real-world outbreak.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.