Ridicule
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Ridicule is a 1996 French period drama film that satirizes the decadence and cruelty of pre-Revolutionary Versailles society through the story of a provincial nobleman navigating its witty but ruthless court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ridicule canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13310358 — 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: Ridicule Context triple: [Charles Berling, notableWork, Ridicule]
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Sarca
The Sarca is a river in northern Italy that flows through the Trentino region and ultimately feeds into Lake Garda.
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Contempt
Contempt is a 1963 drama film by Jean-Luc Godard that explores marital breakdown and artistic compromise within the context of a troubled film production.
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C.
Snub
Snub is the nickname of Snub Pollard, an Australian-born silent film comedian known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
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D.
Humiliation
"Humiliation" is a song by American indie rock band The National from their 2013 album *Trouble Will Find Me*.
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SARC
SARC is a leading interdisciplinary research center at Queen’s University Belfast focused on innovation in sound, music technology, and sonic arts.
- 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: Ridicule Target entity description: Ridicule is a 1996 French period drama film that satirizes the decadence and cruelty of pre-Revolutionary Versailles society through the story of a provincial nobleman navigating its witty but ruthless court.
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A.
Sarca
The Sarca is a river in northern Italy that flows through the Trentino region and ultimately feeds into Lake Garda.
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B.
Contempt
Contempt is a 1963 drama film by Jean-Luc Godard that explores marital breakdown and artistic compromise within the context of a troubled film production.
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C.
Snub
Snub is the nickname of Snub Pollard, an Australian-born silent film comedian known for his work in early Hollywood slapstick comedies.
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D.
Humiliation
"Humiliation" is a song by American indie rock band The National from their 2013 album *Trouble Will Find Me*.
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E.
SARC
SARC is a leading interdisciplinary research center at Queen’s University Belfast focused on innovation in sound, music technology, and sonic arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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film ⓘ period drama film ⓘ satirical film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
César Award for Best Costume Design
NERFINISHED
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César Award for Best Director NERFINISHED ⓘ César Award for Best Film NERFINISHED ⓘ César Award for Best Original Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Albert Delpy
NERFINISHED
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Bernard Giraudeau NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlo Brandt NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Berling NERFINISHED ⓘ Fanny Ardant NERFINISHED ⓘ François Levantal NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Mathou NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Rochefort NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Yanne NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Godrèche NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippe Laudenbach NERFINISHED ⓘ Urbain Cancelier NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent de Bouard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Thierry Arbogast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Antoine Duhamel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts | court of Louis XVI ⓘ |
| director | Patrice Leconte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editor | Joëlle Hache NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRatingFrance | U ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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historical film ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class inequality
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power of language and wit ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
cruelty of courtly wit and ridicule
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decadence of pre-Revolutionary French aristocracy ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| producer | Philippe Carcassonne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Lazennec Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | provincial nobleman ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1996-04-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Eric Vicaut
NERFINISHED
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Michel Fessler NERFINISHED ⓘ Rémi Waterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Versailles 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: Ridicule Description of subject: Ridicule is a 1996 French period drama film that satirizes the decadence and cruelty of pre-Revolutionary Versailles society through the story of a provincial nobleman navigating its witty but ruthless court.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.