Courier
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Courier is a 1986 Soviet coming-of-age drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov that explores youth, class, and disillusionment in the late Soviet era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Courier canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9549351 — 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: Courier Context triple: [Karen Shakhnazarov, notableWork, Courier]
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A.
Courier Corporation
Courier Corporation is an American publishing company best known for owning Dover Publications and specializing in reprints and specialty print products.
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B.
Bosta
Bosta is a coastal area on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, best known for its reconstructed Iron Age house and archaeological remains revealed by shifting sands.
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C.
Sendler
Sendler is the surname of Irena Sendler, the Polish social worker renowned for rescuing thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
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D.
Courier MTA
Courier MTA is a modular, open-source mail transfer agent for Unix-like systems known for its integrated mail services and focus on reliability and scalability.
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E.
Posta
Posta is a popular Turkish daily newspaper known for its mass-market appeal and wide circulation.
- 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: Courier Target entity description: Courier is a 1986 Soviet coming-of-age drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov that explores youth, class, and disillusionment in the late Soviet era.
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A.
Courier Corporation
Courier Corporation is an American publishing company best known for owning Dover Publications and specializing in reprints and specialty print products.
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B.
Bosta
Bosta is a coastal area on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, best known for its reconstructed Iron Age house and archaeological remains revealed by shifting sands.
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C.
Sendler
Sendler is the surname of Irena Sendler, the Polish social worker renowned for rescuing thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
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D.
Courier MTA
Courier MTA is a modular, open-source mail transfer agent for Unix-like systems known for its integrated mail services and focus on reliability and scalability.
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E.
Posta
Posta is a popular Turkish daily newspaper known for its mass-market appeal and wide circulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel by Karen Shakhnazarov ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| depicts |
Soviet intelligentsia
ⓘ
Soviet urban life ⓘ working-class youth ⓘ |
| director | Karen Shakhnazarov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Mosfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresTopic |
everyday life in late Soviet society
ⓘ
generation gap ⓘ social inequality in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| filmFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | teenage boy working as a courier ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasAgeRating | for general audiences in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | The Courier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fyodor Dunayevsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Inna Churikova NERFINISHED ⓘ Oleg Basilashvili NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCinematographyBy | Vladimir Shevtsik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEditingBy | Lyudmila Yelyan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Eduard Artemyev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFocus |
conflict between ideals and reality
ⓘ
personal identity search ⓘ |
| hasProducer | Karen Shakhnazarov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRuntime | approximately 88 minutes ⓘ |
| hasScreenwriter | Karen Shakhnazarov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleInRussian | Курьер ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class
ⓘ
disillusionment ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | late Soviet era ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Soviet theatrical release ⓘ |
| partOf | late Soviet cinema ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mosfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Courier Description of subject: Courier is a 1986 Soviet coming-of-age drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov that explores youth, class, and disillusionment in the late Soviet era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.