Waking Life
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Waking Life is a 2001 animated philosophical film directed by Richard Linklater that explores lucid dreaming and existential questions through a series of surreal, dialogue-driven vignettes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waking Life canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6700271 — 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: Waking Life Context triple: [Julie Delpy, starredIn, Waking Life]
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A.
Talk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of love, loneliness, and communication through the intertwined lives of two men caring for women in comas.
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B.
Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 surreal drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman that follows a theater director whose increasingly elaborate stage production blurs the boundaries between art, reality, and identity.
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C.
The Fountain
The Fountain is a 2006 science fiction romantic drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky that intertwines three narratives across time to explore themes of love, mortality, and the quest for eternal life.
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D.
Le Rêve
Le Rêve is a 1888 novel by Émile Zola that departs from his usual gritty naturalism to tell a more lyrical, dreamlike story of a young orphan girl’s idealized love and religious devotion.
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E.
Hearts in Atlantis
Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of interconnected novellas by Stephen King that blend coming-of-age drama with supernatural and Dark Tower–related elements set against the backdrop of mid-20th-century America.
- 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: Waking Life Target entity description: Waking Life is a 2001 animated philosophical film directed by Richard Linklater that explores lucid dreaming and existential questions through a series of surreal, dialogue-driven vignettes.
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A.
Talk to Her
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar that explores themes of love, loneliness, and communication through the intertwined lives of two men caring for women in comas.
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B.
Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 surreal drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman that follows a theater director whose increasingly elaborate stage production blurs the boundaries between art, reality, and identity.
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C.
The Fountain
The Fountain is a 2006 science fiction romantic drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky that intertwines three narratives across time to explore themes of love, mortality, and the quest for eternal life.
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D.
Le Rêve
Le Rêve is a 1888 novel by Émile Zola that departs from his usual gritty naturalism to tell a more lyrical, dreamlike story of a young orphan girl’s idealized love and religious devotion.
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E.
Hearts in Atlantis
Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of interconnected novellas by Stephen King that blend coming-of-age drama with supernatural and Dark Tower–related elements set against the backdrop of mid-20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Waking Life Description of subject: Waking Life is a 2001 animated philosophical film directed by Richard Linklater that explores lucid dreaming and existential questions through a series of surreal, dialogue-driven vignettes.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.