White Material
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White Material is a 2009 French drama film directed by Claire Denis that follows a white French coffee plantation owner, played by Isabelle Huppert, struggling to survive amid civil war in an unnamed African country.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| White Material canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9395138 — 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: White Material Context triple: [Isabelle Huppert, notableWork, White Material]
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A.
My Night at Maud’s
My Night at Maud’s is a 1969 French philosophical romantic drama film by Éric Rohmer, renowned for its talk-driven exploration of morality, chance, and desire.
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B.
Red Faun
Red Faun is an ancient Roman statue of a reclining satyr, renowned for its vivid reddish marble and housed in Rome’s Capitoline Museums.
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C.
The Fifth Woman
The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
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D.
Angel Pavement
Angel Pavement is a 1930 novel by English writer J. B. Priestley that portrays the lives and struggles of office workers in interwar London with sharp social observation and humor.
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E.
That Obscure Object of Desire
That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
- 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: White Material Target entity description: White Material is a 2009 French drama film directed by Claire Denis that follows a white French coffee plantation owner, played by Isabelle Huppert, struggling to survive amid civil war in an unnamed African country.
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A.
My Night at Maud’s
My Night at Maud’s is a 1969 French philosophical romantic drama film by Éric Rohmer, renowned for its talk-driven exploration of morality, chance, and desire.
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B.
Red Faun
Red Faun is an ancient Roman statue of a reclining satyr, renowned for its vivid reddish marble and housed in Rome’s Capitoline Museums.
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C.
The Fifth Woman
The Fifth Woman is a crime novel in Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander series, featuring the Swedish detective investigating a string of brutal, seemingly connected murders.
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D.
Angel Pavement
Angel Pavement is a 1930 novel by English writer J. B. Priestley that portrays the lives and struggles of office workers in interwar London with sharp social observation and humor.
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E.
That Obscure Object of Desire
That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 surrealist drama film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel that explores obsessive desire and the impossibility of truly possessing another person.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Adèle Ado
NERFINISHED
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Christopher Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaach de Bankolé NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabelle Huppert NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Subor NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicolas Duvauchelle NERFINISHED ⓘ William Nadylam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Maria Vial – Isabelle Huppert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Yves Cape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
French settlers in Africa
ⓘ
armed conflict ⓘ child soldiers ⓘ |
| director | Claire Denis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Ad Vitam Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Guy Lecorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasColor | color film ⓘ |
| hasOriginalTitle | White Material NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| leadActor | Isabelle Huppert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Maria Vial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stuart A. Staples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | coffee plantation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Venice Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Arnaud Dreyfus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pascal Caucheteux NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Arnal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Canal+
NERFINISHED
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CinéCinéma NERFINISHED ⓘ France 3 Cinéma NERFINISHED ⓘ Why Not Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 102 minutes ⓘ |
| screenedInSection | Venice Film Festival main competition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Claire Denis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marie NDiaye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | unnamed African country ⓘ |
| theme |
civil war
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colonial legacy ⓘ family disintegration ⓘ postcolonialism ⓘ race relations ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: White Material Description of subject: White Material is a 2009 French drama film directed by Claire Denis that follows a white French coffee plantation owner, played by Isabelle Huppert, struggling to survive amid civil war in an unnamed African country.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.