Das Boot (1981 film)
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Das Boot is a 1981 German war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen that follows the harrowing World War II mission of a German U-boat crew, renowned for its intense realism and claustrophobic atmosphere.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Das Boot | 19 |
| Das Boot (1981 film) canonical | 9 |
| film Das Boot | 2 |
| Das Boot franchise | 1 |
| film "Das Boot" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1813235 — 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)
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Target entity: Das Boot (1981 film) Context triple: [Hannes Nikel, edited, Das Boot (1981 film)]
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Downfall
Downfall is the codename for the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
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Downfall
Downfall is a 2004 German historical war drama film depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in a besieged Berlin bunker.
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Luftbrücke
Luftbrücke is the German term for the Berlin Airlift, the Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948–1949.
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Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin is a landmark 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, renowned for its innovative montage editing and its influential depiction of the 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian battleship.
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Crimson Tide
Crimson Tide is the name of the University of Alabama’s famed collegiate athletic program, especially known for its powerhouse football team.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Das Boot (1981 film) Target entity description: Das Boot is a 1981 German war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen that follows the harrowing World War II mission of a German U-boat crew, renowned for its intense realism and claustrophobic atmosphere.
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A.
Downfall
Downfall is the codename for the planned but never executed Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
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B.
Downfall
Downfall is a 2004 German historical war drama film depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in a besieged Berlin bunker.
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C.
Luftbrücke
Luftbrücke is the German term for the Berlin Airlift, the Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade of 1948–1949.
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D.
Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin is a landmark 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, renowned for its innovative montage editing and its influential depiction of the 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian battleship.
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E.
Crimson Tide
Crimson Tide is the name of the University of Alabama’s famed collegiate athletic program, especially known for its powerhouse football team.
- F. None of above. chosen
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Das Boot (1981 film) Description of subject: Das Boot is a 1981 German war film directed by Wolfgang Petersen that follows the harrowing World War II mission of a German U-boat crew, renowned for its intense realism and claustrophobic atmosphere.
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Prochnow
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character "Der Alte" (the Old Man) in Das Boot
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Beverly Prochnow
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Kaleun (Captain) Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
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