The War
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The War is a 1994 American drama film starring Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood that explores the lasting emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a Southern family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The War canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4977911 — 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: The War Context triple: [TriBeCa Productions, notableWork, The War]
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A.
One War
One War is a Russian film directed by Vera Glagoleva that portrays the struggles and moral complexities faced by women during World War II.
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B.
The Spirit of War
The Spirit of War is a 19th-century painting by American landscape artist Jasper Francis Cropsey that allegorically depicts the destructive forces and atmosphere of war.
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C.
The Wars to Come
"The Wars to Come" is a musical track from the Game of Thrones Season 5 soundtrack composed by Ramin Djawadi, reflecting the series’ dark, foreboding tone.
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D.
War Without End
"War Without End" is a book by Michael Klare that analyzes the geopolitical, economic, and military dynamics driving perpetual global conflict in the post–Cold War era.
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E.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
- 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: The War Target entity description: The War is a 1994 American drama film starring Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood that explores the lasting emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a Southern family.
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A.
One War
One War is a Russian film directed by Vera Glagoleva that portrays the struggles and moral complexities faced by women during World War II.
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B.
The Spirit of War
The Spirit of War is a 19th-century painting by American landscape artist Jasper Francis Cropsey that allegorically depicts the destructive forces and atmosphere of war.
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C.
The Wars to Come
"The Wars to Come" is a musical track from the Game of Thrones Season 5 soundtrack composed by Ramin Djawadi, reflecting the series’ dark, foreboding tone.
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D.
War Without End
"War Without End" is a book by Michael Klare that analyzes the geopolitical, economic, and military dynamics driving perpetual global conflict in the post–Cold War era.
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E.
War of Wear and Tear
War of Wear and Tear is an alternative name for a war of attrition, a prolonged conflict in which each side aims to gradually exhaust the enemy’s personnel, resources, and morale rather than achieve swift, decisive victories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: The War Description of subject: The War is a 1994 American drama film starring Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood that explores the lasting emotional impact of the Vietnam War on a Southern family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.