Ikiru
E424004
Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that follows a terminally ill bureaucrat’s search for meaning in his final days.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ikiru canonical | 10 |
| Ikiru (Japanese) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4245828 — 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: Ikiru Context triple: [Akira Kurosawa, notableWork, Ikiru]
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A.
Rashōmon
Rashōmon is a seminal short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores moral ambiguity and human desperation in a decaying Kyoto.
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B.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Man of a Thousand Faces is a 1957 biographical film dramatizing the life and career of legendary character actor and makeup pioneer Lon Chaney.
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C.
Otaru
Otaru is a historic port city in northern Japan known for its picturesque canal, preserved Meiji- and Taishō-era architecture, and fresh seafood.
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D.
Inujima
Inujima is a small Japanese island in the Seto Inland Sea known for its contemporary art installations, preserved industrial ruins, and role in the Setouchi Triennale art festival.
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E.
Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic drama film directed by Terrence Malick, renowned for its poetic storytelling and stunning cinematography depicting early 20th-century rural 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: Ikiru Target entity description: Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that follows a terminally ill bureaucrat’s search for meaning in his final days.
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A.
Rashōmon
Rashōmon is a seminal short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores moral ambiguity and human desperation in a decaying Kyoto.
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B.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Man of a Thousand Faces is a 1957 biographical film dramatizing the life and career of legendary character actor and makeup pioneer Lon Chaney.
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C.
Otaru
Otaru is a historic port city in northern Japan known for its picturesque canal, preserved Meiji- and Taishō-era architecture, and fresh seafood.
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D.
Inujima
Inujima is a small Japanese island in the Seto Inland Sea known for its contemporary art installations, preserved industrial ruins, and role in the Setouchi Triennale art festival.
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E.
Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic drama film directed by Terrence Malick, renowned for its poetic storytelling and stunning cinematography depicting early 20th-century rural America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ikiru Description of subject: Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that follows a terminally ill bureaucrat’s search for meaning in his final days.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.