Out of Africa
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Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Out of Africa canonical | 37 |
| Out of Africa (book) | 2 |
| "Out of Africa" | 1 |
| Out of Africa (1985 film) | 1 |
| Out of Africa (memoir) | 1 |
| Out of Africa (score) | 1 |
| Out of Africa (uncredited script work) | 1 |
| film "Out of Africa" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341899 — 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: Out of Africa Context triple: [Meryl Streep, notableWork, Out of Africa]
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A.
The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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B.
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic war drama film, based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel, that follows the tragic, interwoven stories of several characters during World War II and won multiple Academy Awards.
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C.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores African American identity, family history, and the search for personal freedom through the life of its protagonist, Milkman Dead.
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D.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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E.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
- 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: Out of Africa Target entity description: Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
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A.
The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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B.
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic war drama film, based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel, that follows the tragic, interwoven stories of several characters during World War II and won multiple Academy Awards.
-
C.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores African American identity, family history, and the search for personal freedom through the life of its protagonist, Milkman Dead.
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D.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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E.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Out of Africa Description of subject: Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film set in colonial Kenya, best known for its sweeping cinematography, Oscar-winning acclaim, and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed performance.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Louise Streep
this entity surface form:
Out of Africa (score)
subject surface form:
Out of Africa
this entity surface form:
Out of Africa (book)
this entity surface form:
Out of Africa (memoir)
this entity surface form:
Out of Africa (1985 film)
subject surface form:
Meryl Streep
this entity surface form:
"Out of Africa"
this entity surface form:
film "Out of Africa"
subject surface form:
Out of Africa
this entity surface form:
Out of Africa (book)
this entity surface form:
Out of Africa (uncredited script work)