12 Years a Slave
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12 Years a Slave is an Academy Award–winning historical drama film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 19th-century United States.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T335264 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: 12 Years a Slave Context triple: [Benedict Cumberbatch, notableWork, 12 Years a Slave]
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The Green Book
The Green Book is Muammar Gaddafi’s political manifesto outlining his idiosyncratic “Third International Theory,” which rejects both capitalism and communism and proposes a system of direct popular rule.
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Selma (2014 film)
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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Django Unchained
Django Unchained is a 2012 Quentin Tarantino Western film that follows a freed slave teaming up with a bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner.
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Glory
"Glory" is an Academy Award–winning civil rights anthem by John Legend and Common, written for the 2014 film *Selma* and celebrated for its powerful commentary on racial justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 12 Years a Slave Target entity description: 12 Years a Slave is an Academy Award–winning historical drama film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 19th-century United States.
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A.
The Green Book
The Green Book is Muammar Gaddafi’s political manifesto outlining his idiosyncratic “Third International Theory,” which rejects both capitalism and communism and proposes a system of direct popular rule.
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B.
Selma (2014 film)
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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C.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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D.
Django Unchained
Django Unchained is a 2012 Quentin Tarantino Western film that follows a freed slave teaming up with a bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner.
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E.
Glory
"Glory" is an Academy Award–winning civil rights anthem by John Legend and Common, written for the 2014 film *Selma* and celebrated for its powerful commentary on racial justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
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How these facts were elicited
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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: 12 Years a Slave Description of subject: 12 Years a Slave is an Academy Award–winning historical drama film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 19th-century United States.
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Twelve Years a Slave
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12 Years a Slave (stage and film recognition)
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12 Years a Slave (2013 film)
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12 Years a Slave (screenplay)
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Twelve Years a Slave
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film Twelve Years a Slave
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12 Years a Slave (memoir)
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12 Years a Slave (2013 film)
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film 12 Years a Slave (2013)
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12 Years a Slave (film)
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12 Years a Slave (2013 film)