Awakenings
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Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Awakenings canonical | 13 |
| Awakenings (1990 film) | 1 |
| Awakenings (book) | 1 |
| Dr. Kaufman in Awakenings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1958021 — 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: Awakenings Context triple: [Penny Marshall, notableWork, Awakenings]
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A.
Marvin's Room
"Marvin's Room" is a 1996 American drama film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio alongside Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, centered on a fractured family's reconciliation in the face of terminal illness.
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B.
My Left Foot
My Left Foot is a 1989 biographical drama film about Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy, and is widely acclaimed for Daniel Day-Lewis’s Oscar-winning performance.
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C.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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D.
Talk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of love, loneliness, and communication through the intertwined lives of two men caring for women in comas.
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E.
Playing for Time
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
- 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: Awakenings Target entity description: Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
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A.
Marvin's Room
"Marvin's Room" is a 1996 American drama film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio alongside Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, centered on a fractured family's reconciliation in the face of terminal illness.
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B.
My Left Foot
My Left Foot is a 1989 biographical drama film about Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy, and is widely acclaimed for Daniel Day-Lewis’s Oscar-winning performance.
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C.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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D.
Talk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of love, loneliness, and communication through the intertwined lives of two men caring for women in comas.
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E.
Playing for Time
"Playing for Time" is a reflective, piano-driven song by Peter Gabriel that explores themes of aging, memory, and the passage of time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Awakenings Description of subject: Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Awakenings (book)
this entity surface form:
Dr. Kaufman in Awakenings
this entity surface form:
Awakenings (1990 film)