Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...
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Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "...but the clouds..." featuring a performance by acclaimed Beckett interpreter Billie Whitelaw.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... canonical | 2 |
| Beckett on Film | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446925 — 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: Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... Context triple: [Billie Whitelaw, notableWork, Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...]
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A.
Beckett on Film: Catastrophe
Beckett on Film: Catastrophe is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Catastrophe," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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B.
Beckett on Film: Breath
Beckett on Film: Breath is a short film adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s minimalist play "Breath," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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C.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Ohio Impromptu
Beckett on Film: Ohio Impromptu is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Ohio Impromptu," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project that brought all of his stage works to the screen.
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E.
Beckett on Film: Endgame
Beckett on Film: Endgame is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play "Endgame," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project and featuring Billie Whitelaw in a prominent role.
- 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: Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... Target entity description: Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "...but the clouds..." featuring a performance by acclaimed Beckett interpreter Billie Whitelaw.
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A.
Beckett on Film: Catastrophe
Beckett on Film: Catastrophe is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Catastrophe," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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B.
Beckett on Film: Breath
Beckett on Film: Breath is a short film adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s minimalist play "Breath," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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C.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Ohio Impromptu
Beckett on Film: Ohio Impromptu is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Ohio Impromptu," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project that brought all of his stage works to the screen.
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E.
Beckett on Film: Endgame
Beckett on Film: Endgame is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play "Endgame," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project and featuring Billie Whitelaw in a prominent role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Beckett’s short plays
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surface form:
Samuel Beckett’s short play "...but the clouds..."
|
| basedOn | "...but the clouds..." ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| featuresPerformanceBy | Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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television drama ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
loss
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memory ⓘ solitude ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | featuring acclaimed Beckett interpreter Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| originalWorkMedium | stage play ⓘ |
| partOf |
Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Beckett on Film
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| seriesTheme | adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s plays ⓘ |
| title | Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... self-link ⓘ |
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: Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... Description of subject: Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds... is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "...but the clouds..." featuring a performance by acclaimed Beckett interpreter Billie Whitelaw.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...
→
partOf
→
Beckett on Film: ...but the clouds...
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Beckett on Film