Brooklyn
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"Brooklyn" is a 2015 period drama film about a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York in the 1950s and must choose between her new life in America and her roots in Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brooklyn canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11088567 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Brooklyn Context triple: [Eva Birthistle, notableWork, Brooklyn]
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a populous and culturally diverse borough of New York City known for its distinct neighborhoods, arts scene, and iconic landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a small inner-ring suburb of Cleveland located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a residential suburb within the Milnerton area of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a small city in Poweshiek County, Iowa, known for its collection of flags from around the world and its nickname "Community of Flags."
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a historic, primarily residential neighborhood in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, known for its close-in location, community feel, and mix of older homes and light industrial areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Brooklyn Target entity description: "Brooklyn" is a 2015 period drama film about a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York in the 1950s and must choose between her new life in America and her roots in Ireland.
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A.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a populous and culturally diverse borough of New York City known for its distinct neighborhoods, arts scene, and iconic landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge.
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B.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a residential suburb within the Milnerton area of Cape Town, South Africa.
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C.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate that existed in Wellington and was represented in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a small city in Poweshiek County, Iowa, known for its collection of flags from around the world and its nickname "Community of Flags."
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E.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a small inner-ring suburb of Cleveland located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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period drama film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ |
| author | Colm Tóibín NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Academy Award for Best Actress
NERFINISHED
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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Brooklyn (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Eilis Lacey
NERFINISHED
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Father Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Kehoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Fiorello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Yves Bélanger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
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Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Fox Searchlight Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jake Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
period drama
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romantic drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorPlays | Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Irish immigration to the United States
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homesickness ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Brook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a young Irish woman choosing between life in America and roots in Ireland ⓘ |
| producer |
Amanda Posey
NERFINISHED
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Finola Dwyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Item 7
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Parallel Films NERFINISHED ⓘ Wildgaze Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUnitedStates | 2015-11-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 111 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nick Hornby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
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Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1950s ⓘ |
| starring |
Domhnall Gleeson
NERFINISHED
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Emory Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Broadbent NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie Walters NERFINISHED ⓘ Saoirse Ronan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereEvent | 2015 Sundance Film Festival 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: Brooklyn Description of subject: "Brooklyn" is a 2015 period drama film about a young Irish woman who emigrates to New York in the 1950s and must choose between her new life in America and her roots in Ireland.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.