The Death of Stalin
E298899
The Death of Stalin is a 2017 satirical black comedy film that portrays the chaotic power struggle in the Soviet Union following Joseph Stalin’s death.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Death of Stalin canonical | 8 |
| Death of Stalin | 1 |
| The Death of Stalin (2017 film) | 1 |
| The Death of Stalin (comic series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2789651 — 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: The Death of Stalin Context triple: [Armando Iannucci, notableWork, The Death of Stalin]
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The Dictator
The Dictator is a 2012 satirical comedy film starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a tyrannical North African ruler navigating and lampooning American politics and culture.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit is a satirical World War II comedy-drama film that follows a young German boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, as he discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his home and begins to question Nazi ideology.
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E.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Ivan the Terrible, Part II is a 1958 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that continues his epic portrayal of Tsar Ivan IV’s reign and psychological descent.
- 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: The Death of Stalin Target entity description: The Death of Stalin is a 2017 satirical black comedy film that portrays the chaotic power struggle in the Soviet Union following Joseph Stalin’s death.
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A.
The Dictator
The Dictator is a 2012 satirical comedy film starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a tyrannical North African ruler navigating and lampooning American politics and culture.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Jojo Rabbit
Jojo Rabbit is a satirical World War II comedy-drama film that follows a young German boy whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, as he discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his home and begins to question Nazi ideology.
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E.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Ivan the Terrible, Part II is a 1958 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that continues his epic portrayal of Tsar Ivan IV’s reign and psychological descent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: The Death of Stalin Description of subject: The Death of Stalin is a 2017 satirical black comedy film that portrays the chaotic power struggle in the Soviet Union following Joseph Stalin’s death.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Death of Stalin (2017 film)
this entity surface form:
Death of Stalin
this entity surface form:
The Death of Stalin (comic series)