Once Were Warriors
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Once Were Warriors is a powerful 1994 New Zealand drama film depicting the struggles of a Māori family facing poverty, violence, and cultural disconnection.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Once Were Warriors canonical | 30 |
| Once Were Warriors (novel) | 6 |
| Once Were Warriors (film) | 2 |
| Once Were Warriors (stage and screen legacy) | 1 |
| Once Were Warriors series | 1 |
| novel "Once Were Warriors" (1990) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2246092 — 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: Once Were Warriors Context triple: [Stuart Dryburgh, notableWork, Once Were Warriors]
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A.
Field of Blood
Field of Blood is the biblical name traditionally given to the plot of land associated with Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death.
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B.
Exit Wounds
Exit Wounds is a 2001 action-crime film starring Steven Seagal and rapper DMX, centered on police corruption and explosive urban violence.
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C.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western adventure film about a legendary cache of Apache gold, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif.
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D.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale is a popular stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan, best known for its clean humor and iconic routines about food, laziness, and everyday life.
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E.
Honour & Other People’s Children
Honour & Other People’s Children is a collection of two novellas by Australian writer Helen Garner that explore complex family relationships, loyalty, and emotional entanglements in contemporary life.
- 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: Once Were Warriors Target entity description: Once Were Warriors is a powerful 1994 New Zealand drama film depicting the struggles of a Māori family facing poverty, violence, and cultural disconnection.
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A.
Field of Blood
Field of Blood is the biblical name traditionally given to the plot of land associated with Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death.
-
B.
Exit Wounds
Exit Wounds is a 2001 action-crime film starring Steven Seagal and rapper DMX, centered on police corruption and explosive urban violence.
-
C.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western adventure film about a legendary cache of Apache gold, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif.
-
D.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale is a popular stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan, best known for its clean humor and iconic routines about food, laziness, and everyday life.
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E.
Honour & Other People’s Children
Honour & Other People’s Children is a collection of two novellas by Australian writer Helen Garner that explore complex family relationships, loyalty, and emotional entanglements in contemporary life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Once Were Warriors Description of subject: Once Were Warriors is a powerful 1994 New Zealand drama film depicting the struggles of a Māori family facing poverty, violence, and cultural disconnection.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Temuera
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Alan Duff
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Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
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Bully
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