Pigs and Battleships
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Pigs and Battleships is a 1961 satirical Japanese film that critiques postwar society through a darkly comic story of small-time gangsters entangled with U.S. military presence in a port town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pigs and Battleships canonical | 2 |
| Battleship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8624576 — 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: Pigs and Battleships Context triple: [Imamura Shohei, notableWork, Pigs and Battleships]
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A.
Battleship
Battleship is a 2012 science fiction naval war film loosely inspired by the classic board game, featuring an alien invasion and large-scale maritime combat.
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B.
Minesweeper
Minesweeper is a classic single-player logic puzzle video game in which players uncover squares on a grid while avoiding hidden mines.
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C.
Tanks a Million
Tanks a Million is a 1941 American military comedy film best known for starring William Tracy as the fast-talking, regulation-obsessed soldier Dorian "Dodo" Doubleday.
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D.
Battle of the Pockets
The Battle of the Pockets was a series of intense engagements during the early World War II fighting on Bataan in which U.S. and Filipino forces contained and destroyed Japanese penetrations in their defensive lines.
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E.
Tanker War
The Tanker War was a phase of the Iran–Iraq War during which both sides attacked oil tankers and merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf to disrupt each other’s economic lifelines and pressure international involvement.
- 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: Pigs and Battleships Target entity description: Pigs and Battleships is a 1961 satirical Japanese film that critiques postwar society through a darkly comic story of small-time gangsters entangled with U.S. military presence in a port town.
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A.
Battleship
Battleship is a 2012 science fiction naval war film loosely inspired by the classic board game, featuring an alien invasion and large-scale maritime combat.
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B.
Minesweeper
Minesweeper is a classic single-player logic puzzle video game in which players uncover squares on a grid while avoiding hidden mines.
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C.
Tanks a Million
Tanks a Million is a 1941 American military comedy film best known for starring William Tracy as the fast-talking, regulation-obsessed soldier Dorian "Dodo" Doubleday.
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D.
Battle of the Pockets
The Battle of the Pockets was a series of intense engagements during the early World War II fighting on Bataan in which U.S. and Filipino forces contained and destroyed Japanese penetrations in their defensive lines.
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E.
Tanker War
The Tanker War was a phase of the Iran–Iraq War during which both sides attacked oil tankers and merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf to disrupt each other’s economic lifelines and pressure international involvement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Shinsaku Himeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| director | Shohei Imamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Nikkatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Mutsuo Tanji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmMovement | Japanese New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_and_Battleships NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubtitlesAvailable | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Haruko
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kinta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Toshiro Mayuzumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
U.S. military presence in Japan
ⓘ
postwar Japanese society ⓘ small-time gangsters ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic tone
ⓘ
depiction of U.S. military influence in a Japanese port town ⓘ satirical critique of postwar Japanese society ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| portrays |
clash between traditional values and modernization
ⓘ
corruption in port-town underworld ⓘ exploitation linked to U.S. military bases ⓘ |
| producer | Tomio Ikeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Nikkatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1961-10-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 108 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Hisashi Yamanouchi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shohei Imamura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Yokosuka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Hiroyuki Nagato
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jitsuko Yoshimura NERFINISHED ⓘ Masao Mishima NERFINISHED ⓘ Tetsuro Tamba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
Americanization of Japan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
gender inequality ⓘ organized crime ⓘ poverty and aspiration ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Pigs and Battleships Description of subject: Pigs and Battleships is a 1961 satirical Japanese film that critiques postwar society through a darkly comic story of small-time gangsters entangled with U.S. military presence in a port town.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Battleship