mother!
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mother! is a 2017 psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, known for its allegorical narrative, intense performances, and polarizing reception.
All labels observed (1)
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| mother! canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5576707 — 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: mother! Context triple: [Protozoa Pictures, notableWork, mother!]
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A.
Mom
Mom is a popular American sitcom starring Allison Janney and Anna Faris that follows a dysfunctional mother-daughter duo in recovery from addiction.
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MOM
MOM is India’s first interplanetary spacecraft, a Mars orbiter launched by ISRO that made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit.
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Mam
Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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Mamayi
Mamayi was a powerful 14th-century military and political leader of the Golden Horde who played a central role in its internal power struggles and conflicts with emerging Russian principalities.
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E.
Mommy
Mommy is a domineering, materialistic matriarch and central figure in Edward Albee’s absurdist one-act play "The American Dream."
- 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: mother! Target entity description: mother! is a 2017 psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, known for its allegorical narrative, intense performances, and polarizing reception.
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A.
Mom
Mom is a popular American sitcom starring Allison Janney and Anna Faris that follows a dysfunctional mother-daughter duo in recovery from addiction.
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B.
MOM
MOM is India’s first interplanetary spacecraft, a Mars orbiter launched by ISRO that made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit.
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C.
Mam
Mam is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Mam people in the western highlands of Guatemala and parts of southern Mexico.
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D.
Mamayi
Mamayi was a powerful 14th-century military and political leader of the Golden Horde who played a central role in its internal power struggles and conflicts with emerging Russian principalities.
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E.
Mommy
Mommy is a domineering, materialistic matriarch and central figure in Edward Albee’s absurdist one-act play "The American Dream."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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psychological horror film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossUSD | 44000000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 30000000 ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Matthew Libatique ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | polarizing ⓘ |
| director | Darren Aronofsky ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | United States theatrical distribution by Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Andrew Weisblum ⓘ |
| festivalSelection |
Venice International Film Festival main competition
ⓘ
linked to:
Venice Film Festival
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| filmingFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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horror ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasMetaphoricalElements |
Biblical allegory
ⓘ
environmental allegory ⓘ |
| mainCast |
Brian Gleeson
ⓘ
Domhnall Gleeson ⓘ Ed Harris ⓘ Javier Bardem ⓘ Jennifer Lawrence ⓘ Kristen Wiig ⓘ Michelle Pfeiffer ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jóhann Jóhannsson ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | allegorical ⓘ |
| notableFor |
allegorical narrative
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controversial imagery ⓘ intense performances ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| posterTagline | Seeing is believing ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Protozoa Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 121 ⓘ |
| setting | isolated country house ⓘ |
| stars |
Ed Harris as Man
ⓘ
Javier Bardem as Him ⓘ
linked to:
Javier Bardem
Jennifer Lawrence as Mother ⓘ Michelle Pfeiffer as Woman ⓘ
linked to:
Michelle Pfeiffer
|
| themes |
creation
ⓘ
environmentalism ⓘ fame and celebrity ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| worldPremiereEvent |
74th Venice International Film Festival
ⓘ
linked to:
Venice Film Festival
|
| worldPremiereYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| writer | Darren Aronofsky ⓘ |
| writtenAndDirectedBy | Darren Aronofsky ⓘ |
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: mother! Description of subject: mother! is a 2017 psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, known for its allegorical narrative, intense performances, and polarizing reception.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.