The Selfish Giant
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The Selfish Giant is a 2013 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Clio Barnard, loosely inspired by Oscar Wilde’s short story of the same name.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Selfish Giant canonical | 11 |
| The Selfish Giant (2013 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13549642 — 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 Selfish Giant Context triple: [Harry Escott, notableWork, The Selfish Giant]
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A.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of literary fairy stories by Oscar Wilde, noted for their blend of fantasy, social criticism, and poignant moral themes.
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B.
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince is a 2018 biographical drama film written, directed by, and starring Rupert Everett, depicting the tragic final years of writer Oscar Wilde.
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C.
The Garden of Childhood
The Garden of Childhood is a reflective, autobiographical work by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky that evokes early life through vivid, lyrical memories and imagery.
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D.
The Little Shepherd
"The Little Shepherd" is a gentle, pastoral piano piece by Claude Debussy, evoking the simple, lyrical world of a young shepherd.
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E.
The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree is a classic children's picture book by Shel Silverstein that poignantly explores themes of unconditional love, selflessness, and the passage of time through the relationship between a boy and a generous tree.
- 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 Selfish Giant Target entity description: The Selfish Giant is a 2013 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Clio Barnard, loosely inspired by Oscar Wilde’s short story of the same name.
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A.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of literary fairy stories by Oscar Wilde, noted for their blend of fantasy, social criticism, and poignant moral themes.
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B.
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince is a 2018 biographical drama film written, directed by, and starring Rupert Everett, depicting the tragic final years of writer Oscar Wilde.
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C.
The Garden of Childhood
The Garden of Childhood is a reflective, autobiographical work by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky that evokes early life through vivid, lyrical memories and imagery.
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D.
The Little Shepherd
"The Little Shepherd" is a gentle, pastoral piano piece by Claude Debussy, evoking the simple, lyrical world of a young shepherd.
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E.
The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree is a classic children's picture book by Shel Silverstein that poignantly explores themes of unconditional love, selflessness, and the passage of time through the relationship between a boy and a generous tree.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Selfish Giant Description of subject: The Selfish Giant is a 2013 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Clio Barnard, loosely inspired by Oscar Wilde’s short story of the same name.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.