Majid Majidi
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Majid Majidi is an acclaimed Iranian film director best known internationally for his humanistic, socially conscious dramas such as "Children of Heaven."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Majid Majidi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5385979 — 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: Majid Majidi Context triple: [Iranian cinema, notableDirector, Majid Majidi]
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A.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a prominent Iranian filmmaker and writer known for his innovative, socially and politically engaged films that helped bring international recognition to contemporary Iranian cinema.
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B.
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi is an acclaimed Iranian filmmaker known for his socially critical, realist films and for continuing to make movies despite government bans and restrictions.
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C.
Jafar Tabrizi
Jafar Tabrizi was a prominent Timurid-era Persian artist and calligrapher renowned for his contributions to miniature painting and manuscript illumination.
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D.
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami was an acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his poetic, minimalist style and influential works such as "Taste of Cherry" and "Close-Up."
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E.
Parviz Davoodi
Parviz Davoodi is an Iranian economist and conservative politician who served as the first vice president of Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- 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: Majid Majidi Target entity description: Majid Majidi is an acclaimed Iranian film director best known internationally for his humanistic, socially conscious dramas such as "Children of Heaven."
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A.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a prominent Iranian filmmaker and writer known for his innovative, socially and politically engaged films that helped bring international recognition to contemporary Iranian cinema.
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B.
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi is an acclaimed Iranian filmmaker known for his socially critical, realist films and for continuing to make movies despite government bans and restrictions.
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C.
Jafar Tabrizi
Jafar Tabrizi was a prominent Timurid-era Persian artist and calligrapher renowned for his contributions to miniature painting and manuscript illumination.
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D.
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami was an acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his poetic, minimalist style and influential works such as "Taste of Cherry" and "Close-Up."
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E.
Parviz Davoodi
Parviz Davoodi is an Iranian economist and conservative politician who served as the first vice president of Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Prix des Amériques
NERFINISHED
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Montreal World Film Festival award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-04-17 ⓘ |
| directed |
Baran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Children of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad: The Messenger of God NERFINISHED ⓘ The Color of Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ The Father NERFINISHED ⓘ The Song of Sparrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Majid Majidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Majidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
social realism ⓘ |
| givenName | Majid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
humanistic films
ⓘ
socially conscious dramas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Iranian New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Majid Majidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Iranian ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Baran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Children of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad: The Messenger of God NERFINISHED ⓘ The Color of Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ The Father NERFINISHED ⓘ The Song of Sparrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Majid Majidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Baran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Children of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ The Color of Paradise 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: Majid Majidi Description of subject: Majid Majidi is an acclaimed Iranian film director best known internationally for his humanistic, socially conscious dramas such as "Children of Heaven."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.