Kony
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Kony is a critically acclaimed 1984 Bengali film directed by Saroj Dey, known for its inspiring story of a young swimmer’s struggle against social and economic adversity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kony canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7772263 — 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: Kony Context triple: [Soumitra Chatterjee, notableWork, Kony]
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Ghadamès
Ghadamès is an ancient oasis town in western Libya, renowned for its well-preserved Saharan architecture and UNESCO-listed historic old quarter.
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Kipsigis
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Haydaria
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Kindu
Kindu is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that serves as the capital of Maniema Province and an important regional transport hub.
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Issa
Issa is a masculine given name of Arabic origin commonly used in various Middle Eastern and Muslim-majority cultures.
- 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: Kony Target entity description: Kony is a critically acclaimed 1984 Bengali film directed by Saroj Dey, known for its inspiring story of a young swimmer’s struggle against social and economic adversity.
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A.
Ghadamès
Ghadamès is an ancient oasis town in western Libya, renowned for its well-preserved Saharan architecture and UNESCO-listed historic old quarter.
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B.
Kipsigis
Kipsigis is a Southern Nilotic language spoken primarily by the Kipsigis people of Kenya, who are part of the larger Kalenjin ethnic group.
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C.
Haydaria
Haydaria is a locality in Uttar Pradesh, India, known as the eastern terminus of the Purvanchal Expressway.
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D.
Kindu
Kindu is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that serves as the capital of Maniema Province and an important regional transport hub.
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E.
Issa
Issa is a masculine given name of Arabic origin commonly used in various Middle Eastern and Muslim-majority cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bengali-language film
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film ⓘ |
| awardCountry | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel "Kony" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Shakti Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| director | Saroj Dey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | Government of West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Shaktipada Roy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmIndustry | Tollywood (Bengali cinema) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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sports drama film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Nirmal Kumar
NERFINISHED
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Ruma Guha Thakurta NERFINISHED ⓘ Soumitra Chatterjee NERFINISHED ⓘ Sriparna Banerjee NERFINISHED ⓘ Sujata Sarkar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicationDate | 1984 ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
coach–athlete relationship
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competitive swimming ⓘ |
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Bengali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
overcoming economic adversity
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overcoming social adversity ⓘ sports as social mobility ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Prabir Majumdar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | young swimmer from underprivileged background ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inspirational dialogue "Fight Kony, fight"
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portrayal of class discrimination in sports ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Bengali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
corruption in sports selection
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struggles of lower middle class in India ⓘ |
| producer | Saroj Dey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 130 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Saroj Dey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Kolkata
NERFINISHED
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West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Bengali ⓘ |
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: Kony Description of subject: Kony is a critically acclaimed 1984 Bengali film directed by Saroj Dey, known for its inspiring story of a young swimmer’s struggle against social and economic adversity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.