Black Rain
E491546
Black Rain is an alternate title for "The Last Wave," a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir that blends legal drama with supernatural and apocalyptic themes involving Aboriginal spirituality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Black Rain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072219 — 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: Black Rain Context triple: [The Last Wave, hasAlternateTitle, Black Rain]
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A.
Steel Rain
"Steel Rain" is a moody, atmospheric rock song by Chris Cornell from his solo album *Euphoria Morning*, showcasing his distinctive vocals and introspective songwriting.
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B.
Red Rain
"Red Rain" is a 1986 art rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its atmospheric production, vivid apocalyptic imagery, and role as the opening track on his acclaimed album *So*.
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C.
Like the Rain
"Like the Rain" is a popular 1996 country song by Clint Black that became one of his signature hits.
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D.
In the Rain
"In the Rain" is a song best known as a soulful 1971 hit by the American R&B group The Dramatics, featuring lush production and emotive vocals.
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E.
Rains
Rains is the surname of English actor Claude Rains, renowned for his roles in classic films such as "Casablanca" and "The Invisible Man."
- 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: Black Rain Target entity description: Black Rain is an alternate title for "The Last Wave," a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir that blends legal drama with supernatural and apocalyptic themes involving Aboriginal spirituality.
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A.
Steel Rain
"Steel Rain" is a moody, atmospheric rock song by Chris Cornell from his solo album *Euphoria Morning*, showcasing his distinctive vocals and introspective songwriting.
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B.
Red Rain
"Red Rain" is a 1986 art rock song by Peter Gabriel, known for its atmospheric production, vivid apocalyptic imagery, and role as the opening track on his acclaimed album *So*.
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C.
Like the Rain
"Like the Rain" is a popular 1996 country song by Clint Black that became one of his signature hits.
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D.
In the Rain
"In the Rain" is a song best known as a soulful 1971 hit by the American R&B group The Dramatics, featuring lush production and emotive vocals.
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E.
Rains
Rains is the surname of English actor Claude Rains, renowned for his roles in classic films such as "Casablanca" and "The Invisible Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alternateTitleOf | The Last Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Russell Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| director | Peter Weir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | United Artists ⓘ |
| editedBy | Max Lemon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
apocalyptic film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ mystery film ⓘ supernatural film ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Black Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElement |
apocalyptic visions
ⓘ
courtroom proceedings ⓘ prophetic dreams ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Aboriginal spirituality
ⓘ
legal drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| musicBy | Charles Wain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producedBy |
Hal McElroy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim McElroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | McElroy & McElroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | feature film ⓘ |
| refersTo | 1977 Australian film The Last Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977-11-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| starring |
David Gulpilil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frederick Parslow NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Hamnett NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Chamberlain NERFINISHED ⓘ Vivean Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenBy |
Peter Weir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Petru Popescu NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Morphett 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: Black Rain Description of subject: Black Rain is an alternate title for "The Last Wave," a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir that blends legal drama with supernatural and apocalyptic themes involving Aboriginal spirituality.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.