Ran
E424010
Ran is a 1985 Japanese epic period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, renowned for its visually stunning, tragic retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ran canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4245836 — 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: Ran Context triple: [Akira Kurosawa, notableWork, Ran]
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A.
Kita Iwo Jima
Kita Iwo Jima is a remote, uninhabited volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean that forms part of Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago.
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B.
Hud
Hud is a prophet in Islamic tradition, known for being sent to guide the ancient people of ʿĀd away from idolatry and toward the worship of one God.
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C.
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 historical epic film directed by Edward Zwick that follows an American military advisor who becomes immersed in samurai culture during Japan’s Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Xanadu
Xanadu is the opulent, mythical pleasure-dome city evoked in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan."
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E.
Akira
Akira is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender and borne by many notable figures in fields such as science, arts, and entertainment.
- 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: Ran Target entity description: Ran is a 1985 Japanese epic period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, renowned for its visually stunning, tragic retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan.
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A.
Kita Iwo Jima
Kita Iwo Jima is a remote, uninhabited volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean that forms part of Japan’s Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago.
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B.
Hud
Hud is a prophet in Islamic tradition, known for being sent to guide the ancient people of ʿĀd away from idolatry and toward the worship of one God.
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C.
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 historical epic film directed by Edward Zwick that follows an American military advisor who becomes immersed in samurai culture during Japan’s Meiji Restoration.
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D.
Xanadu
Xanadu is the opulent, mythical pleasure-dome city evoked in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan."
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E.
Akira
Akira is a common Japanese given name used for people of any gender and borne by many notable figures in fields such as science, arts, and entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese film
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epic film ⓘ film ⓘ period drama film ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1.85:1 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Costume Design NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
King Lear
NERFINISHED
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William Shakespeare’s works NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
Asakazu Nakai
NERFINISHED
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Masaharu Ueda NERFINISHED ⓘ Takao Saitō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Eastmancolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Emi Wada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| director | Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Toho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Akira Kurosawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
epic
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period drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| musicBy | Toru Takemitsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Art Direction
NERFINISHED
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Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptation of King Lear
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elaborate battle sequences ⓘ use of color ⓘ |
| partOf | Akira Kurosawa filmography ⓘ |
| producer |
Masato Hara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Serge Silberman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Greenwich Film Productions
NERFINISHED
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Herald Ace NERFINISHED ⓘ Nippon Herald Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1985-06-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 162 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Akira Kurosawa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hideo Oguni NERFINISHED ⓘ Masato Ide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | feudal Japan ⓘ |
| starring |
Akira Terao
NERFINISHED
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Daisuke Ryū NERFINISHED ⓘ Hisashi Igawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Hitoshi Ueki NERFINISHED ⓘ Jinpachi Nezu NERFINISHED ⓘ Masayuki Yui NERFINISHED ⓘ Mieko Harada NERFINISHED ⓘ Pītā NERFINISHED ⓘ Tatsuya Nakadai NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoshiko Miyazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ran Description of subject: Ran is a 1985 Japanese epic period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, renowned for its visually stunning, tragic retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.