Vera Drake
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Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film directed by Mike Leigh about a working-class woman in 1950s London who secretly performs illegal abortions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vera Drake canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1258648 — 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: Vera Drake Context triple: [Timothy Spall, notableWork, Vera Drake]
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A.
It’s a Sin
It’s a Sin is a British television drama miniseries created by Russell T Davies that follows a group of friends in 1980s London whose lives are profoundly affected by the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis.
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B.
Philomena
Philomena is a 2013 British drama film, based on a true story, that follows an Irish woman’s decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
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C.
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue is a 2020 British drama film, directed by Steve McQueen as part of his Small Axe anthology, that explores institutional racism in the London Metropolitan Police through the true story of Black officer Leroy Logan.
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D.
Gosford Park
Gosford Park is a 2001 British ensemble murder mystery film directed by Robert Altman, set in a 1930s English country estate and acclaimed for its intricate upstairs-downstairs storytelling and star-studded cast.
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E.
Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is a 2011 period drama film, starring Glenn Close as a woman living as a man in 19th-century Ireland, that explores themes of gender identity, survival, and social constraint.
- 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: Vera Drake Target entity description: Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film directed by Mike Leigh about a working-class woman in 1950s London who secretly performs illegal abortions.
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A.
It’s a Sin
It’s a Sin is a British television drama miniseries created by Russell T Davies that follows a group of friends in 1980s London whose lives are profoundly affected by the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis.
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B.
Philomena
Philomena is a 2013 British drama film, based on a true story, that follows an Irish woman’s decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
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C.
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue is a 2020 British drama film, directed by Steve McQueen as part of his Small Axe anthology, that explores institutional racism in the London Metropolitan Police through the true story of Black officer Leroy Logan.
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D.
Gosford Park
Gosford Park is a 2001 British ensemble murder mystery film directed by Robert Altman, set in a 1930s English country estate and acclaimed for its intricate upstairs-downstairs storytelling and star-studded cast.
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E.
Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is a 2011 period drama film, starring Glenn Close as a woman living as a man in 19th-century Ireland, that explores themes of gender identity, survival, and social constraint.
- 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: Vera Drake Description of subject: Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film directed by Mike Leigh about a working-class woman in 1950s London who secretly performs illegal abortions.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eddie Marsan