Daru
E1013656
Daru is the central schoolteacher protagonist in the film "Loin des hommes," who faces a moral dilemma while escorting an Arab prisoner across the Algerian desert during the war of independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daru canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12989171 — 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: Daru Context triple: [Loin des hommes, characterPortrayed, Daru]
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A.
Taygi
Taygi is a lesser-known Samoyedic language of the Uralic family traditionally spoken by an indigenous group in northern Siberia.
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B.
Tsaangi
Tsaangi is a Bantu language of Central Africa closely related to Njebi and spoken by communities in Gabon.
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C.
Dugu
Dugu is a semi-legendary figure sometimes cited as an early founder of the Sayfawa dynasty, the long-ruling royal house of the Kanem-Bornu Empire in Central Africa.
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D.
Shinde
Shinde is an Indian surname historically associated with the Maratha community and borne by several notable political and public figures.
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E.
Gardo
Gardo is one of the three impoverished boys who uncover a dangerous secret while scavenging through a landfill in Andy Mulligan’s novel "Trash."
- 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: Daru Target entity description: Daru is the central schoolteacher protagonist in the film "Loin des hommes," who faces a moral dilemma while escorting an Arab prisoner across the Algerian desert during the war of independence.
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A.
Taygi
Taygi is a lesser-known Samoyedic language of the Uralic family traditionally spoken by an indigenous group in northern Siberia.
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B.
Tsaangi
Tsaangi is a Bantu language of Central Africa closely related to Njebi and spoken by communities in Gabon.
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C.
Dugu
Dugu is a semi-legendary figure sometimes cited as an early founder of the Sayfawa dynasty, the long-ruling royal house of the Kanem-Bornu Empire in Central Africa.
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D.
Shinde
Shinde is an Indian surname historically associated with the Maratha community and borne by several notable political and public figures.
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E.
Gardo
Gardo is one of the three impoverished boys who uncover a dangerous secret while scavenging through a landfill in Andy Mulligan’s novel "Trash."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Far from Men
ⓘ
Loin des hommes ⓘ |
| associatedWithWorkAuthor | Albert Camus ⓘ |
| basedOn | Daru (character in Albert Camus’s short story "The Guest") ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
ⓘ
principled ⓘ reluctant to take sides in the conflict ⓘ |
| faces | moral dilemma ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
drama
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 2014 ⓘ |
| journeyThrough |
Algerian desert
ⓘ
linked to:
Algerian Sahara
|
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralConflictAbout | delivering the prisoner to authorities ⓘ |
| nationality | French Algerian ⓘ |
| occupation | schoolteacher ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Viggo Mortensen ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Algeria ⓘ |
| task | escort an Arab prisoner ⓘ |
| teachesAt | remote schoolhouse in the Algerian highlands ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Algerian War of Independence ⓘ |
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: Daru Description of subject: Daru is the central schoolteacher protagonist in the film "Loin des hommes," who faces a moral dilemma while escorting an Arab prisoner across the Algerian desert during the war of independence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.