A Matter of Life and Death
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A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film, co-directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, that follows an RAF pilot caught between life and the afterlife after surviving a near-fatal wartime incident.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Matter of Life and Death canonical | 12 |
| A Matter of Life and Death (1946 film) | 2 |
| A Matter of Life and Death (film, 1946) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2772515 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Matter of Life and Death Context triple: [David Niven, notableWork, A Matter of Life and Death]
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Chimes at Midnight
Chimes at Midnight is a 1965 historical drama film directed by and starring Orson Welles, celebrated for its innovative adaptation of several of Shakespeare’s plays into a single narrative centered on Sir John Falstaff.
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B.
Defence of the Realm
Defence of the Realm is the official motto expressing the core mission of the British Armed Forces to protect the United Kingdom and its interests.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
The Dam Busters (1955 film)
The Dam Busters (1955 film) is a British war movie dramatizing the RAF’s World War II mission to destroy German dams using Barnes Wallis’s innovative “bouncing bomb.”
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E.
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour is a 2011 science fiction thriller film about a group of young people in Moscow fighting to survive an invisible alien invasion that drains electrical energy.
- 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: A Matter of Life and Death Target entity description: A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film, co-directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, that follows an RAF pilot caught between life and the afterlife after surviving a near-fatal wartime incident.
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A.
Chimes at Midnight
Chimes at Midnight is a 1965 historical drama film directed by and starring Orson Welles, celebrated for its innovative adaptation of several of Shakespeare’s plays into a single narrative centered on Sir John Falstaff.
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B.
Defence of the Realm
Defence of the Realm is the official motto expressing the core mission of the British Armed Forces to protect the United Kingdom and its interests.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
The Dam Busters (1955 film)
The Dam Busters (1955 film) is a British war movie dramatizing the RAF’s World War II mission to destroy German dams using Barnes Wallis’s innovative “bouncing bomb.”
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E.
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour is a 2011 science fiction thriller film about a group of young people in Moscow fighting to survive an invisible alien invasion that drains electrical energy.
- 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: A Matter of Life and Death Description of subject: A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film, co-directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, that follows an RAF pilot caught between life and the afterlife after surviving a near-fatal wartime incident.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946 film)
this entity surface form:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946 film)
subject surface form:
David Niven
this entity surface form:
A Matter of Life and Death (film, 1946)