The Ottoman Lieutenant
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The Ottoman Lieutenant is a 2017 historical drama film set during World War I that follows a young American woman who travels to the Ottoman Empire and becomes entangled in a love triangle amid the looming Armenian genocide.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Ottoman Lieutenant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5742125 — 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 Ottoman Lieutenant Context triple: [Michiel Huisman, workedOn, The Ottoman Lieutenant]
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A.
The Most Great Sultan
The Most Great Sultan is an honorific Islamic royal title historically used by powerful Muslim rulers to emphasize their supreme authority and grandeur above other sultans.
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B.
باب المندب
باب المندب هو مضيق بحري استراتيجي يربط بين البحر الأحمر وخليج عدن ويعد من أهم ممرات الملاحة العالمية.
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C.
Aga of the Janissaries
The Aga of the Janissaries was the high-ranking commander and administrative head of the Ottoman Empire’s elite Janissary corps.
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Three Pashas
The Three Pashas were the trio of Ottoman leaders—Enver Pasha, Talat Pasha, and Cemal Pasha—who dominated the empire’s politics during World War I and were central to its wartime policies and atrocities, including the Armenian Genocide.
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E.
The Sultan
The Sultan is the benevolent yet somewhat naive ruler of Agrabah and Princess Jasmine’s father in Disney’s Aladdin story.
- 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 Ottoman Lieutenant Target entity description: The Ottoman Lieutenant is a 2017 historical drama film set during World War I that follows a young American woman who travels to the Ottoman Empire and becomes entangled in a love triangle amid the looming Armenian genocide.
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A.
The Most Great Sultan
The Most Great Sultan is an honorific Islamic royal title historically used by powerful Muslim rulers to emphasize their supreme authority and grandeur above other sultans.
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B.
باب المندب
باب المندب هو مضيق بحري استراتيجي يربط بين البحر الأحمر وخليج عدن ويعد من أهم ممرات الملاحة العالمية.
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C.
Aga of the Janissaries
The Aga of the Janissaries was the high-ranking commander and administrative head of the Ottoman Empire’s elite Janissary corps.
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D.
Three Pashas
The Three Pashas were the trio of Ottoman leaders—Enver Pasha, Talat Pasha, and Cemal Pasha—who dominated the empire’s politics during World War I and were central to its wartime policies and atrocities, including the Armenian Genocide.
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E.
The Sultan
The Sultan is the benevolent yet somewhat naive ruler of Agrabah and Princess Jasmine’s father in Disney’s Aladdin story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Affif Ben Badra
NERFINISHED
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Ben Kingsley NERFINISHED ⓘ Haluk Bilginer NERFINISHED ⓘ Hera Hilmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Hartnett NERFINISHED ⓘ Michiel Huisman NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Barrett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Daniel Aranyó NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Turkey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts |
American missionaries
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Armenian civilians ⓘ Ottoman military officers ⓘ |
| director | Joseph Ruben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paladin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Geoffrey Rowland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Cappadocia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cultural conflict
ⓘ
duty versus love ⓘ war and romance ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. Woodruff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ismail Veli NERFINISHED ⓘ Jude NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillie Rowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Geoff Zanelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
American nurse in the Ottoman Empire
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looming Armenian genocide ⓘ mission hospital in eastern Anatolia ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | love triangle ⓘ |
| posterTagline | In a land on the brink of war the most dangerous place to be is in love ⓘ |
| producer |
Gökhan Tiryaki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stephen Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Eastern Sunrise Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUnitedStates | March 10, 2017 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 106 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jeff Stockwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Ottoman Lieutenant Description of subject: The Ottoman Lieutenant is a 2017 historical drama film set during World War I that follows a young American woman who travels to the Ottoman Empire and becomes entangled in a love triangle amid the looming Armenian genocide.
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