Brazil
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Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a bureaucratic, totalitarian society and its distinctive, surreal visual style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brazil canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T619787 — 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: Brazil Context triple: [Terry Gilliam, directed, Brazil]
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A.
Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America, known for its vast Amazon rainforest, diverse culture, and major cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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B.
Paraguay
Paraguay is a landlocked country in central South America known for its bilingual Spanish and Guaraní culture and its location along the Paraguay and Paraná rivers.
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C.
Argentina
Argentina is a large South American nation known for its diverse landscapes from the Andes to the Pampas, its vibrant culture including tango and football, and its capital city Buenos Aires.
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D.
Uruguay
Uruguay is a small South American country known for its stable democracy, high standard of living, and Atlantic coastline between Brazil and Argentina.
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E.
Peru
Peru is a South American country known for its rich Inca heritage, diverse landscapes from Andes mountains to Amazon rainforest, and the iconic archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
- 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: Brazil Target entity description: Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a bureaucratic, totalitarian society and its distinctive, surreal visual style.
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A.
Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America, known for its vast Amazon rainforest, diverse culture, and major cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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B.
Paraguay
Paraguay is a landlocked country in central South America known for its bilingual Spanish and Guaraní culture and its location along the Paraguay and Paraná rivers.
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C.
Argentina
Argentina is a large South American nation known for its diverse landscapes from the Andes to the Pampas, its vibrant culture including tango and football, and its capital city Buenos Aires.
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D.
Uruguay
Uruguay is a small South American country known for its stable democracy, high standard of living, and Atlantic coastline between Brazil and Argentina.
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E.
Peru
Peru is a South American country known for its rich Inca heritage, diverse landscapes from Andes mountains to Amazon rainforest, and the iconic archaeological site of Machu Picchu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dystopian film
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film ⓘ satirical film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| award |
Academy Award for Best Art Direction
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Art Direction (nominated)
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated)
BAFTA Award for Best Production Design ⓘ
surface form:
BAFTA Award for Best Production Design (won)
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| basedOn |
1984
ⓘ
surface form:
Nineteen Eighty-Four (inspired by)
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| castMember |
Bob Hoskins
ⓘ
Ian Holm ⓘ Ian Richardson ⓘ Jim Broadbent ⓘ Jonathan Pryce ⓘ Katherine Helmond ⓘ Kim Greist ⓘ Michael Palin ⓘ Peter Vaughan ⓘ Robert De Niro ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Roger Pratt ⓘ |
| composer | Michael Kamen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cultStatus | cult classic ⓘ |
| director | Terry Gilliam ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Julian Doyle ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
dystopian ⓘ satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| leadActor | Jonathan Pryce ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sam Lowry ⓘ |
| musicFeature | Song "Aquarela do Brasil" by Ary Barroso ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly satirical portrayal of bureaucracy
ⓘ
depiction of totalitarian surveillance state ⓘ distinctive surreal production design ⓘ multiple different cuts and endings ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Arnon Milchan
ⓘ
Terry Gilliam ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Embassy Pictures
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surface form:
Embassy International Pictures
Silver Screen Partners ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | low-level government employee ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 20 February 1985 (UK) ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 132 minutes (theatrical cut) ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles McKeown
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Terry Gilliam ⓘ Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
| setting | bureaucratic totalitarian state ⓘ |
| title | Brazil self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
retro-futuristic
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surreal ⓘ |
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: Brazil Description of subject: Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film known for its darkly satirical portrayal of a bureaucratic, totalitarian society and its distinctive, surreal visual style.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bob Hoskins