Madame Sousatzka
E578890
Madame Sousatzka is a 1988 British drama film about an eccentric piano teacher and her gifted student, adapted from Bernice Rubens' novel and starring Shirley MacLaine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame Sousatzka canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6240725 — 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: Madame Sousatzka Context triple: [John Schlesinger, directed, Madame Sousatzka]
-
A.
Orlova
Orlova is a Russian surname most famously associated with Lyubov Orlova, a celebrated Soviet film and theater actress.
-
B.
Grushenka
Grushenka is a central female character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov," known for her complex mix of sensuality, capriciousness, and capacity for moral and spiritual transformation.
-
C.
Praskovya Osipovna
Praskovya Osipovna is a minor character in Nikolai Gogol’s satirical short story "The Nose," representing the everyday Petersburg milieu that frames the absurd adventures of the protagonist’s runaway nose.
-
D.
Martha Apraksina
Martha Apraksina was a Russian noblewoman best known as the second wife of Tsar Feodor III of Russia.
-
E.
Manilov
Manilov is a dreamy, overly sentimental landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his superficial politeness and impractical idealism.
- 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: Madame Sousatzka Target entity description: Madame Sousatzka is a 1988 British drama film about an eccentric piano teacher and her gifted student, adapted from Bernice Rubens' novel and starring Shirley MacLaine.
-
A.
Orlova
Orlova is a Russian surname most famously associated with Lyubov Orlova, a celebrated Soviet film and theater actress.
-
B.
Grushenka
Grushenka is a central female character in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov," known for her complex mix of sensuality, capriciousness, and capacity for moral and spiritual transformation.
-
C.
Praskovya Osipovna
Praskovya Osipovna is a minor character in Nikolai Gogol’s satirical short story "The Nose," representing the everyday Petersburg milieu that frames the absurd adventures of the protagonist’s runaway nose.
-
D.
Martha Apraksina
Martha Apraksina was a Russian noblewoman best known as the second wife of Tsar Feodor III of Russia.
-
E.
Manilov
Manilov is a dreamy, overly sentimental landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his superficial politeness and impractical idealism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British drama film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Madame Sousatzka (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Bernice Rubens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedBy | Shirley MacLaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Madame Sousatzka (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Bruno de Keyzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | John Schlesinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Peter Honess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Madame Sousatzka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manek Sen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
eccentric piano teacher
ⓘ
gifted piano student ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Andras Hamori
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Maslansky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Cineplex Odeon Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nelson Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUK | 1988-10-14 ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1988-12-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 122 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bernice Rubens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Schlesinger NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| starring |
Geoffrey Bayldon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leigh Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ Navin Chowdhry NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Ashcroft NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley MacLaine NERFINISHED ⓘ Twiggy 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: Madame Sousatzka Description of subject: Madame Sousatzka is a 1988 British drama film about an eccentric piano teacher and her gifted student, adapted from Bernice Rubens' novel and starring Shirley MacLaine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.