Baal (film)
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Baal (film) is a 1970 television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder as the self-destructive poet-protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baal (film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6751378 — 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: Baal (film) Context triple: [Baal, hasAdaptation, Baal (film)]
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A.
Shaitan
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Seediq Bale (film)
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C.
Haasil
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D.
Yannai
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E.
Baabda
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- 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: Baal (film) Target entity description: Baal (film) is a 1970 television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder as the self-destructive poet-protagonist.
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A.
Shaitan
Shaitan is a figure in Islamic belief commonly identified as the Devil, representing evil, temptation, and rebellion against God.
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B.
Seediq Bale (film)
Seediq Bale is a Taiwanese historical epic film that dramatizes the Seediq indigenous people's resistance against Japanese colonial rule during the early 20th century.
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C.
Haasil
Haasil is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film, best known for its intense portrayal of student politics and for featuring a critically acclaimed performance by Irrfan Khan.
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D.
Yannai
Yannai is another name for Alexander Jannaeus, a Hasmonean king of Judea and high priest who ruled in the early 1st century BCE.
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E.
Baabda
Baabda is a town in Lebanon that serves as the administrative center of the Mount Lebanon Governorate and hosts the Lebanese presidential palace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Baal (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Bertolt Brecht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Günther Neutze
NERFINISHED
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Hanna Schygulla NERFINISHED ⓘ Irm Hermann NERFINISHED ⓘ Margarethe von Trotta NERFINISHED ⓘ Marian Seidowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainer Werner Fassbinder NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigi Graue NERFINISHED ⓘ Volker Spengler NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Sedlmayr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Dietrich Lohmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Klaus Doldinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Volker Schlöndorff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Claus von Boro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Baal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | television studio production ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| genre |
literary adaptation
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | adaptation of a stage play ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
art and society
ⓘ
bohemian poet ⓘ self-destruction ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
ARD
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WDR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | German television films of the 1970s ⓘ |
| portrays | a self-destructive poet ⓘ |
| producer | Volker Schlöndorff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 85 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Pea Fröhlich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rainer Werner Fassbinder NERFINISHED ⓘ Volker Schlöndorff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| star | Rainer Werner Fassbinder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Baal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Baal (film) Description of subject: Baal (film) is a 1970 television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder as the self-destructive poet-protagonist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.