The Red Violin
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The Red Violin is a 1998 drama film that traces the centuries-spanning journey of a mysterious, exquisitely crafted violin and the lives it transforms across different countries and eras.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Red Violin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11320090 — 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 Red Violin Context triple: [Don McKellar, notableWork, The Red Violin]
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A.
The Secret of the Stradivarius
The Secret of the Stradivarius is a late-19th-century novella by Hugh Conway, blending mystery and melodrama around a legendary violin and its haunting influence.
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B.
“Red Violins”
“Red Violins” is a track by the indie rock band Get Hurt, known for its emotive, guitar-driven sound.
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C.
The Green Violinist
The Green Violinist is a famous early 20th-century painting by Marc Chagall that depicts a fantastical, oversized fiddler in a dreamlike village scene, blending elements of Jewish folklore and modernist abstraction.
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D.
Rosamunde Quartett
Rosamunde Quartett is a renowned German string quartet known for its refined interpretations of both classical and contemporary repertoire.
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E.
Violin Dreams
Violin Dreams is a reflective memoir by violinist Arnold Steinhardt that explores his life in music, the challenges of mastering the violin, and the deeper meaning of artistic pursuit.
- 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 Red Violin Target entity description: The Red Violin is a 1998 drama film that traces the centuries-spanning journey of a mysterious, exquisitely crafted violin and the lives it transforms across different countries and eras.
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A.
The Secret of the Stradivarius
The Secret of the Stradivarius is a late-19th-century novella by Hugh Conway, blending mystery and melodrama around a legendary violin and its haunting influence.
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B.
“Red Violins”
“Red Violins” is a track by the indie rock band Get Hurt, known for its emotive, guitar-driven sound.
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C.
The Green Violinist
The Green Violinist is a famous early 20th-century painting by Marc Chagall that depicts a fantastical, oversized fiddler in a dreamlike village scene, blending elements of Jewish folklore and modernist abstraction.
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D.
Rosamunde Quartett
Rosamunde Quartett is a renowned German string quartet known for its refined interpretations of both classical and contemporary repertoire.
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E.
Violin Dreams
Violin Dreams is a reflective memoir by violinist Arnold Steinhardt that explores his life in music, the challenges of mastering the violin, and the deeper meaning of artistic pursuit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
1990s film
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British film ⓘ Canadian film ⓘ Italian film ⓘ drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Score
NERFINISHED
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Genie Award for Best Cinematography NERFINISHED ⓘ Genie Award for Best Direction NERFINISHED ⓘ Genie Award for Best Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralObject | a red-colored violin ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Alain Dostie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
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Italy ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | François Girard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lions Gate Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Gaétan Huot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsItem | a mysterious red-colored violin across several centuries ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology film
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drama ⓘ historical drama ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Cremona segment
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Montreal segment ⓘ Oxford segment ⓘ Shanghai segment NERFINISHED ⓘ Vienna segment ⓘ |
| language |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Mandarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainInstrumentFeatured | violin ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Corigliano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | François Girard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Niv Fichman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Cremona
NERFINISHED
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Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Shanghai NERFINISHED ⓘ Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Carlo Cecchi
NERFINISHED
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Colm Feore NERFINISHED ⓘ Don McKellar NERFINISHED ⓘ Greta Scacchi NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Flemyng NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel L. Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvia Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
art and obsession
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fate ⓘ the passage of time ⓘ the power of music ⓘ |
| title | The Red Violin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Don McKellar
NERFINISHED
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François Girard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: The Red Violin Description of subject: The Red Violin is a 1998 drama film that traces the centuries-spanning journey of a mysterious, exquisitely crafted violin and the lives it transforms across different countries and eras.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.