Guru Dutt
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Guru Dutt was a pioneering Indian filmmaker and actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned for his poetic, melancholic cinema and classics like "Pyaasa" and "Kaagaz Ke Phool."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guru Dutt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4951593 — 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: Guru Dutt Context triple: [Shyam Benegal, relative, Guru Dutt]
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A.
Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha was a renowned Indian film director celebrated for his socially conscious and critically acclaimed works in Bengali cinema.
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B.
Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta is an Indian film director known for his socially and politically charged cinema, including acclaimed works in both mainstream and parallel Bollywood.
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C.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker best known for directing socially charged and stylistically distinctive films such as "Rang De Basanti" and "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag."
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D.
Satyajit Sen
Satyajit Sen is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Sen.
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E.
Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai is a prominent Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for directing several major Bollywood hits since the late 1970s.
- 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: Guru Dutt Target entity description: Guru Dutt was a pioneering Indian filmmaker and actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned for his poetic, melancholic cinema and classics like "Pyaasa" and "Kaagaz Ke Phool."
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A.
Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha was a renowned Indian film director celebrated for his socially conscious and critically acclaimed works in Bengali cinema.
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B.
Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta is an Indian film director known for his socially and politically charged cinema, including acclaimed works in both mainstream and parallel Bollywood.
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C.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an acclaimed Indian filmmaker best known for directing socially charged and stylistically distinctive films such as "Rang De Basanti" and "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag."
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D.
Satyajit Sen
Satyajit Sen is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Sen.
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E.
Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai is a prominent Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for directing several major Bollywood hits since the late 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
choreographer ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| actedIn |
Aar-Paar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baazi NERFINISHED ⓘ Chaudhvin Ka Chand NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaagaz Ke Phool NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. & Mrs. '55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pyaasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1964 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Guru Dutt Padukone
NERFINISHED
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Gurudutt Padukone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Bombay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1925-07-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Bangalore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British India ⓘ Kingdom of Mysore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suspected suicide ⓘ |
| citizenship | India ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1964-10-10 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Bombay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ Maharashtra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directed |
Aar-Paar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baazi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaagaz Ke Phool NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. & Mrs. '55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pyaasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Konkani-speaking Saraswat Brahmin ⓘ |
| founded | Guru Dutt Films Pvt. Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
melodrama
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Arun Dutt
NERFINISHED
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Nina Dutt NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarun Dutt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | Hindi film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Indian parallel cinema
NERFINISHED
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later Hindi film directors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
melancholic themes
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poetic visual style ⓘ portrayal of the disillusioned artist ⓘ use of light and shadow in cinematography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Hindi
ⓘ
Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Golden Age of Hindi cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aar-Paar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baazi NERFINISHED ⓘ Chaudhvin Ka Chand NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaagaz Ke Phool NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. & Mrs. '55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pyaasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
choreographer ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| produced |
Aar-Paar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chaudhvin Ka Chand NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaagaz Ke Phool NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. & Mrs. '55 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pyaasa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Atmaram Padukone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lalita Lajmi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Geeta Dutt 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: Guru Dutt Description of subject: Guru Dutt was a pioneering Indian filmmaker and actor of the 1950s and 1960s, renowned for his poetic, melancholic cinema and classics like "Pyaasa" and "Kaagaz Ke Phool."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.