The Cow
E515499
The Cow is a landmark 1969 Iranian drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui that is widely credited with helping launch the Iranian New Wave.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cow canonical | 8 |
| The Cow (novella) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5386008 — 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 Cow Context triple: [Iranian cinema, notableFilm, The Cow]
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A.
The Cow
The Cow is the English title of Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran’s longest chapter, which covers core themes of faith, law, guidance, and the relationship between God and humanity.
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B.
The Cattle
The Cattle is the English title of Surah Al-An'am, the sixth chapter of the Qur’an, which focuses on themes of monotheism, divine guidance, and the refutation of idolatry.
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C.
The Yellow Cow
The Yellow Cow is a famous 1911 Expressionist painting by German artist Franz Marc, depicting a brightly colored, leaping cow in a vivid, abstract landscape.
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D.
The Horse
"The Horse" was the nickname of Harry Gallatin, a rugged and durable Hall of Fame NBA forward known for his rebounding and toughness, primarily with the New York Knicks in the 1950s.
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E.
Strolling of the Heifers
Strolling of the Heifers is an annual agricultural-themed parade and festival in Brattleboro, Vermont, celebrating local farms, food, and rural life.
- 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 Cow Target entity description: The Cow is a landmark 1969 Iranian drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui that is widely credited with helping launch the Iranian New Wave.
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A.
The Cow
The Cow is the English title of Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran’s longest chapter, which covers core themes of faith, law, guidance, and the relationship between God and humanity.
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B.
The Cattle
The Cattle is the English title of Surah Al-An'am, the sixth chapter of the Qur’an, which focuses on themes of monotheism, divine guidance, and the refutation of idolatry.
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C.
The Yellow Cow
The Yellow Cow is a famous 1911 Expressionist painting by German artist Franz Marc, depicting a brightly colored, leaping cow in a vivid, abstract landscape.
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D.
The Horse
"The Horse" was the nickname of Harry Gallatin, a rugged and durable Hall of Fame NBA forward known for his rebounding and toughness, primarily with the New York Knicks in the 1950s.
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E.
Strolling of the Heifers
Strolling of the Heifers is an annual agricultural-themed parade and festival in Brattleboro, Vermont, celebrating local farms, food, and rural life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian New Wave film
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film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
FIPRESCI Prize at Venice Film Festival
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linked to:
FIPRESCI Prize
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| basedOn |
The Cow (novella)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Cow
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| basedOnAuthor | Gholam-Hossein Saedi ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| censorshipStatusInIran | initially banned then later released ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Fereydun Ghovanlou ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed by international critics ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | classic of Iranian cinema ⓘ |
| director | Dariush Mehrjui ⓘ |
| distribution | screened internationally at film festivals ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dariush Mehrjui ⓘ |
| era | pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema ⓘ |
| festivalScreening |
Venice International Film Festival
ⓘ
linked to:
Venice Film Festival
|
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | considered one of the most important films in Iranian film history ⓘ |
| influenced | subsequent Iranian New Wave filmmakers ⓘ |
| language |
Persian
ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
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| leadActorRole | Ezzatolah Entezami as Masht Hassan ⓘ |
| movement | Iranian New Wave ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hormoz Farhat ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping launch the Iranian New Wave
ⓘ
portrayal of rural Iranian life ⓘ psychological character study ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Gāv ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A villager becomes mentally unstable after the death of his beloved cow and begins to believe he is the cow. ⓘ |
| producer | Dariush Mehrjui ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Dariush Mehrjui
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Gholam-Hossein Saedi ⓘ |
| setting | rural Iranian village ⓘ |
| starring |
Ali Nassirian
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Ezzatolah Entezami ⓘ Jafar Vali ⓘ Jamshid Mashayekhi ⓘ |
| theme |
human–animal relationship
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identity ⓘ loss ⓘ madness ⓘ rural poverty ⓘ |
| title | The Cow ⓘ |
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 Cow Description of subject: The Cow is a landmark 1969 Iranian drama film directed by Dariush Mehrjui that is widely credited with helping launch the Iranian New Wave.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.