1990 film The Handmaid's Tale
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The 1990 film "The Handmaid's Tale" is a dystopian drama based on Margaret Atwood's novel, depicting a theocratic regime that subjugates women and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film) | 2 |
| 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale canonical | 1 |
| The Handmaid's Tale (film) | 1 |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T912729 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale Context triple: [The Handmaid's Tale, adaptedAs, 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale]
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A.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel depicting a theocratic regime that strips women of their rights, widely acclaimed for its feminist themes and chilling political commentary.
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B.
The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1973 film) is a cinematic adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic 1850 novel, dramatizing themes of sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community.
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C.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a Tony Award–winning musical, adapted from Manuel Puig’s novel, that blends political drama and fantasy within the confines of a Latin American prison.
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D.
The Accused
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film that powerfully examines sexual assault and victim-blaming, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Jodie Foster.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) is a romantic drama loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, notable for its significant departures from the source material and its critical and commercial failure.
- 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: 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale Target entity description: The 1990 film "The Handmaid's Tale" is a dystopian drama based on Margaret Atwood's novel, depicting a theocratic regime that subjugates women and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude.
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A.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel depicting a theocratic regime that strips women of their rights, widely acclaimed for its feminist themes and chilling political commentary.
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B.
The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1973 film) is a cinematic adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic 1850 novel, dramatizing themes of sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community.
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C.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a Tony Award–winning musical, adapted from Manuel Puig’s novel, that blends political drama and fantasy within the confines of a Latin American prison.
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D.
The Accused
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film that powerfully examines sexual assault and victim-blaming, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Jodie Foster.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) is a romantic drama loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, notable for its significant departures from the source material and its critical and commercial failure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale Description of subject: The 1990 film "The Handmaid's Tale" is a dystopian drama based on Margaret Atwood's novel, depicting a theocratic regime that subjugates women and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Handmaid’s Tale
this entity surface form:
The Handmaid's Tale (film)
this entity surface form:
The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film)
this entity surface form:
The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film)