Abbas Kiarostami
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Abbas Kiarostami was an acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his poetic, minimalist style and influential works such as "Taste of Cherry" and "Close-Up."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abbas Kiarostami canonical | 44 |
| Abbas Kiarostami Productions | 1 |
| Abbas Kiarostami appears as a fictionalized director | 1 |
| Abbas Kiarostami filmography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2436892 — 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: Abbas Kiarostami Context triple: [Juliette Binoche, hasWorkedWith, Abbas Kiarostami]
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish filmmaker renowned for his slow-paced, visually meticulous, and introspective dramas exploring existential themes and complex human relationships.
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B.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov was a visionary Soviet-Armenian film director renowned for his highly poetic, visually innovative films such as "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and "The Color of Pomegranates."
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C.
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais was a pioneering French film director associated with the Left Bank of the French New Wave, renowned for his innovative narrative structures and explorations of memory and time in films like "Hiroshima mon amour" and "Last Year at Marienbad."
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D.
Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos was a renowned Greek filmmaker celebrated for his slow, meditative style, long takes, and politically charged, poetic explorations of history and memory.
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Louis Malle
Louis Malle was a French film director and screenwriter known for his innovative, often provocative works that bridged the French New Wave and more classical narrative cinema.
- 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: Abbas Kiarostami Target entity description: Abbas Kiarostami was an acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his poetic, minimalist style and influential works such as "Taste of Cherry" and "Close-Up."
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A.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish filmmaker renowned for his slow-paced, visually meticulous, and introspective dramas exploring existential themes and complex human relationships.
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B.
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov was a visionary Soviet-Armenian film director renowned for his highly poetic, visually innovative films such as "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and "The Color of Pomegranates."
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C.
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais was a pioneering French film director associated with the Left Bank of the French New Wave, renowned for his innovative narrative structures and explorations of memory and time in films like "Hiroshima mon amour" and "Last Year at Marienbad."
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D.
Theo Angelopoulos
Theo Angelopoulos was a renowned Greek filmmaker celebrated for his slow, meditative style, long takes, and politically charged, poetic explorations of history and memory.
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E.
Louis Malle
Louis Malle was a French film director and screenwriter known for his innovative, often provocative works that bridged the French New Wave and more classical narrative cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Abbas Kiarostami Description of subject: Abbas Kiarostami was an acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his poetic, minimalist style and influential works such as "Taste of Cherry" and "Close-Up."
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Abbas Kiarostami
linked to: Abbas Kiarostami
linked to: Abbas Kiarostami