The Shop on Main Street
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The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovak drama film, co-directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, that poignantly depicts the moral dilemmas of the Holocaust through the relationship between a Slovak carpenter and an elderly Jewish shop owner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Shop on Main Street canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10811266 — 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: The Shop on Main Street Context triple: [Hungarian cinema, hasAcademyAwardWinningFilm, The Shop on Main Street]
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A.
The King of Main Street
The King of Main Street is a 1925 silent comedy-drama film starring Adolphe Menjou as a small-town businessman whose life is transformed by unexpected success and romance.
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B.
The Grocer’s Shop
The Grocer’s Shop is a finely detailed 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou, exemplifying his meticulous Leiden fijnschilder style in depicting a shop interior and everyday life.
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C.
The Shop
The Shop is a secretive, government-linked organization in Stephen King’s works, known for conducting unethical experiments and covert operations involving individuals with paranormal abilities.
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D.
The Shop
The Shop is the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, which served as the British Army’s principal training institution for artillery and engineering officers.
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E.
Two Story Town
"Two Story Town" is a song by the American rock band Crush.
- 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: The Shop on Main Street Target entity description: The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovak drama film, co-directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, that poignantly depicts the moral dilemmas of the Holocaust through the relationship between a Slovak carpenter and an elderly Jewish shop owner.
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A.
The King of Main Street
The King of Main Street is a 1925 silent comedy-drama film starring Adolphe Menjou as a small-town businessman whose life is transformed by unexpected success and romance.
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B.
The Grocer’s Shop
The Grocer’s Shop is a finely detailed 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou, exemplifying his meticulous Leiden fijnschilder style in depicting a shop interior and everyday life.
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C.
The Shop
The Shop is a secretive, government-linked organization in Stephen King’s works, known for conducting unethical experiments and covert operations involving individuals with paranormal abilities.
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D.
The Shop
The Shop is the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, which served as the British Army’s principal training institution for artillery and engineering officers.
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E.
Two Story Town
"Two Story Town" is a song by the American rock band Crush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust film
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film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Special Mention for Ida Kamińska at Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Trap
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
short story by Ladislav Grosman ⓘ |
| cinematography | Vladimír Novotný NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstRelease | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfProduction | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Aryanization policies
ⓘ
Holocaust in Slovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
Elmar Klos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ján Kadár NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Ústřední půjčovna filmů ⓘ |
| editedBy | Maximilián Remen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Holocaust drama
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drama ⓘ historical drama ⓘ war drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
antisemitism
ⓘ
complicity with oppression ⓘ courage and cowardice ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Rozália Lautmannová
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tóno Brtko NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Zdeněk Liška NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | moral dilemmas of an ordinary man under fascism ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Actress for Ida Kamińska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Slovak ⓘ |
| presentedAt | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Elmar Klos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ján Kadár NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Kratký Film Bratislava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1965-03-09 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 125 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Elmar Klos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ján Kadár NERFINISHED ⓘ Ladislav Grosman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Slovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| starring |
Hana Slivková
NERFINISHED
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Ida Kamińska NERFINISHED ⓘ Jozef Kroner NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Hollý NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Shop on Main Street Description of subject: The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovak drama film, co-directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, that poignantly depicts the moral dilemmas of the Holocaust through the relationship between a Slovak carpenter and an elderly Jewish shop owner.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.