The Dinner
E515142
The Dinner is a psychological drama film adapted from Herman Koch’s novel, centering on two couples whose tense restaurant conversation gradually reveals a disturbing family secret.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Dinner canonical | 10 |
| La cena | 1 |
| The Dinner (2014 film) | 1 |
| The Dinner (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5352051 — 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 Dinner Context triple: [Oren Moverman, knownFor, The Dinner]
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A.
The Banquet
The Banquet is the English title of Dante Alighieri’s unfinished philosophical work "Convivio," which blends prose and poetry to explore ethics, politics, and knowledge.
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B.
Stranger at the Table
"Stranger at the Table" is a song from Chance the Rapper and Jeremih’s collaborative Christmas-themed mixtape "Merry Christmas Lil Mama."
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C.
The Master Butchers Singing Club
The Master Butchers Singing Club is a multigenerational novel by Louise Erdrich that follows German immigrants and their descendants in a small North Dakota town, exploring themes of family, memory, and the legacy of war.
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D.
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
"Love, Loss, and What We Ate" is a memoir by Padma Lakshmi that intertwines her personal journey through love, grief, immigration, and identity with the central role that food has played in her life.
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E.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
- 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 Dinner Target entity description: The Dinner is a psychological drama film adapted from Herman Koch’s novel, centering on two couples whose tense restaurant conversation gradually reveals a disturbing family secret.
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A.
The Banquet
The Banquet is the English title of Dante Alighieri’s unfinished philosophical work "Convivio," which blends prose and poetry to explore ethics, politics, and knowledge.
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B.
Stranger at the Table
"Stranger at the Table" is a song from Chance the Rapper and Jeremih’s collaborative Christmas-themed mixtape "Merry Christmas Lil Mama."
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C.
The Master Butchers Singing Club
The Master Butchers Singing Club is a multigenerational novel by Louise Erdrich that follows German immigrants and their descendants in a small North Dakota town, exploring themes of family, memory, and the legacy of war.
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D.
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
"Love, Loss, and What We Ate" is a memoir by Padma Lakshmi that intertwines her personal journey through love, grief, immigration, and identity with the central role that food has played in her life.
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E.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
The Dinner (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Dinner
|
| adaptationType | novel-to-film adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Dinner ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Herman Koch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacterType |
middle-class parents
ⓘ
troubled teenagers ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
psychological film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySourceCountryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| literarySourceGenre | novel ⓘ |
| literarySourceLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
family conflict
ⓘ
family secret ⓘ moral dilemma ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | gradual revelation of a secret ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | two couples ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | dialogue-driven ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two couples meet for dinner at a restaurant and their tense conversation gradually reveals a disturbing secret involving their children. ⓘ |
| primarySetting | restaurant ⓘ |
| settingType | single-evening setting ⓘ |
| theme |
parental responsibility
ⓘ
social status and privilege ⓘ violence and guilt ⓘ |
| tone |
claustrophobic
ⓘ
tense ⓘ |
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 Dinner Description of subject: The Dinner is a psychological drama film adapted from Herman Koch’s novel, centering on two couples whose tense restaurant conversation gradually reveals a disturbing family secret.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Dinner
linked to: The Dinner
linked to: The Dinner