Son of Saul
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Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film set in Auschwitz that follows a Jewish prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers as he obsessively seeks to give a proper burial to a boy he takes for his son.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Son of Saul canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10198229 — 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: Son of Saul Context triple: [88th Academy Awards, bestForeignLanguageFilmWinner, Son of Saul]
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A.
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life is a 2019 historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick that portrays the true story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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B.
Schindlerjuden
Schindlerjuden were the group of Jewish men, women, and children whose lives were saved from the Holocaust by German industrialist Oskar Schindler through their employment in his factories.
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C.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a 2017 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, known for its unsettling atmosphere, darkly absurd tone, and exploration of guilt and retribution.
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D.
Incendies
Incendies is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, acclaimed for its powerful exploration of family secrets and the legacy of civil war in the Middle East.
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E.
First Reformed
First Reformed is a 2017 psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader, following a troubled pastor’s crisis of faith amid environmental and personal despair.
- 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: Son of Saul Target entity description: Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film set in Auschwitz that follows a Jewish prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers as he obsessively seeks to give a proper burial to a boy he takes for his son.
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A.
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life is a 2019 historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick that portrays the true story of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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B.
Schindlerjuden
Schindlerjuden were the group of Jewish men, women, and children whose lives were saved from the Holocaust by German industrialist Oskar Schindler through their employment in his factories.
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C.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a 2017 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, known for its unsettling atmosphere, darkly absurd tone, and exploration of guilt and retribution.
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D.
Incendies
Incendies is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, acclaimed for its powerful exploration of family secrets and the legacy of civil war in the Middle East.
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E.
First Reformed
First Reformed is a 2017 psychological drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader, following a troubled pastor’s crisis of faith amid environmental and personal despair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust film
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film ⓘ |
| academyAwardsEdition | 88th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1.37:1 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
NERFINISHED
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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Mátyás Erdély NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widespread critical acclaim ⓘ |
| director | László Nemes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Mozinet
NERFINISHED
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Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Matthieu Taponier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | shallow focus cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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historical drama ⓘ war ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
German
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Hungarian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Saul Ausländer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | Sonderkommando prisoner ⓘ |
| metacriticCategory | universal acclaim ⓘ |
| musicBy | László Melis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | intense first-person perspective depiction of Auschwitz ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Saul fia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A Jewish Sonderkommando prisoner in Auschwitz obsessively seeks to give a proper burial to a boy he believes is his son. ⓘ |
| premieredAt | 2015 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Gábor Sipos
NERFINISHED
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Géza Röhrig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| representedCountryAtOscars | Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | approximately 107 ⓘ |
| setting | Auschwitz concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Géza Röhrig
NERFINISHED
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Levente Molnár NERFINISHED ⓘ Urs Rechn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
Holocaust
NERFINISHED
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death and mourning ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| title | Son of Saul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Clara Royer
NERFINISHED
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László Nemes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Son of Saul Description of subject: Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film set in Auschwitz that follows a Jewish prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers as he obsessively seeks to give a proper burial to a boy he takes for his son.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.