Breaking the Waves
E329725
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 emotionally intense Danish drama film directed by Lars von Trier, renowned for its raw Dogme 95 style and powerful performances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Breaking the Waves canonical | 17 |
| Breaking the Waves (1996 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3131201 — 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: Breaking the Waves Context triple: [Stellan Skarsgård, notableWork, Breaking the Waves]
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A.
Dancer in the Dark
Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 musical drama film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its tragic story, experimental Dogme 95-inspired style, and Björk’s acclaimed lead performance and music.
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B.
Heavenly Creatures
Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 psychological drama film directed by Peter Jackson that dramatizes the real-life 1950s New Zealand murder case involving two intensely bonded teenage girls.
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C.
The Father
The Father is a critically acclaimed 2020 drama film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, that portrays an elderly man's struggle with dementia through an innovative, disorienting narrative structure.
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D.
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a critically acclaimed 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee that portrays a decades-long, secret relationship between two cowboys in the American West.
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E.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 period drama film directed by Todd Haynes that explores race, sexuality, and social norms in 1950s suburban America.
- 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: Breaking the Waves Target entity description: Breaking the Waves is a 1996 emotionally intense Danish drama film directed by Lars von Trier, renowned for its raw Dogme 95 style and powerful performances.
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A.
Dancer in the Dark
Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 musical drama film directed by Lars von Trier, known for its tragic story, experimental Dogme 95-inspired style, and Björk’s acclaimed lead performance and music.
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B.
Heavenly Creatures
Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 psychological drama film directed by Peter Jackson that dramatizes the real-life 1950s New Zealand murder case involving two intensely bonded teenage girls.
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C.
The Father
The Father is a critically acclaimed 2020 drama film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, that portrays an elderly man's struggle with dementia through an innovative, disorienting narrative structure.
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D.
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain is a critically acclaimed 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee that portrays a decades-long, secret relationship between two cowboys in the American West.
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E.
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 period drama film directed by Todd Haynes that explores race, sexuality, and social norms in 1950s suburban America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Breaking the Waves Description of subject: Breaking the Waves is a 1996 emotionally intense Danish drama film directed by Lars von Trier, renowned for its raw Dogme 95 style and powerful performances.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves
subject linked to:
Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves
linked to: Breaking the Waves
subject linked to:
Bess McNeill in Breaking the Waves
subject linked to:
Mazzoli