Cry Freedom
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Cry Freedom is a 1987 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Richard Attenborough that portrays the life and activism of South African leader Steve Biko and his friendship with journalist Donald Woods.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cry Freedom canonical | 11 |
| Cry Freedom (film score) | 2 |
| Cry Freedom (film) | 1 |
| The Biko Inquest | 1 |
| anti-apartheid drama Cry Freedom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1010078 — 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: Cry Freedom Context triple: [Richard Attenborough, notableWork, Cry Freedom]
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A.
Born Free
"Born Free" is a country rock song and album by American musician Kid Rock that blends heartland rock influences with themes of freedom and Americana.
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B.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s autobiographical account of his life and struggle against apartheid, charting his journey from rural childhood to becoming South Africa’s first Black president.
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C.
Toward Freedom
Toward Freedom is the subtitle of Jawaharlal Nehru’s autobiography, in which he reflects on his life, political struggles, and the Indian independence movement.
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D.
Armed Freedom
Armed Freedom is the bronze allegorical statue of a helmeted female figure representing liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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E.
The Path to Freedom
"The Path to Freedom" is a chapter in Carl Sagan’s science book *The Demon-Haunted World* that explores how scientific thinking and skepticism can liberate people from superstition and irrational beliefs.
- 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: Cry Freedom Target entity description: Cry Freedom is a 1987 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Richard Attenborough that portrays the life and activism of South African leader Steve Biko and his friendship with journalist Donald Woods.
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A.
Born Free
"Born Free" is a country rock song and album by American musician Kid Rock that blends heartland rock influences with themes of freedom and Americana.
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B.
Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s autobiographical account of his life and struggle against apartheid, charting his journey from rural childhood to becoming South Africa’s first Black president.
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C.
Toward Freedom
Toward Freedom is the subtitle of Jawaharlal Nehru’s autobiography, in which he reflects on his life, political struggles, and the Indian independence movement.
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D.
Armed Freedom
Armed Freedom is the bronze allegorical statue of a helmeted female figure representing liberty that crowns the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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E.
The Path to Freedom
"The Path to Freedom" is a chapter in Carl Sagan’s science book *The Demon-Haunted World* that explores how scientific thinking and skepticism can liberate people from superstition and irrational beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Cry Freedom Description of subject: Cry Freedom is a 1987 anti-apartheid drama film directed by Richard Attenborough that portrays the life and activism of South African leader Steve Biko and his friendship with journalist Donald Woods.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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