Stella
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Stella is a 1955 Greek drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, renowned for its tragic story of a fiercely independent woman and its iconic performance by Melina Mercouri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stella canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8994140 — 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: Stella Context triple: [Michael Cacoyannis, notableWork, Stella]
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Stella
Stella is an American comedy trio and sketch group best known for its absurdist humor and for featuring comedians Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain.
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Stella
Stella is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "star," used internationally and popularized in various cultures and media.
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Stella
Stella is a small municipality in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy, situated in the hilly inland area near the Ligurian coast.
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Stella
Stella is a 1990 American drama film, written by Robert Getchell and starring Bette Midler, about a working-class mother who sacrifices everything for her daughter's future.
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Stella
Stella is the beloved muse and idealized lady addressed by the poet-speaker in Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence "Astrophil and Stella."
- 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: Stella Target entity description: Stella is a 1955 Greek drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, renowned for its tragic story of a fiercely independent woman and its iconic performance by Melina Mercouri.
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Stella
Stella is a 1990 American drama film, written by Robert Getchell and starring Bette Midler, about a working-class mother who sacrifices everything for her daughter's future.
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Stella
Stella is the central character in the British television drama film "Gideon's Daughter," around whom the story's emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
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Stella
Stella is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "star," used internationally and popularized in various cultures and media.
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Stella
Stella is a key character in Guy Ritchie's crime film "RocknRolla," known as a sharp, stylish accountant entangled in the London underworld.
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Stella
Stella is the beloved muse and idealized lady addressed by the poet-speaker in Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence "Astrophil and Stella."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | play Stella with the Red Gloves ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematography | Walter Lassally NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Greece ⓘ |
| director | Michael Cacoyannis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Finos Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFestivalScreening | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination | Cannes Film Festival award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginalScore | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conflict with social norms
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female independence ⓘ love and tragedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Greek ⓘ |
| leadActor | Melina Mercouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorCharacter | Stella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | singer ⓘ |
| leadCharacterTrait | fiercely independent ⓘ |
| musicBy | Manos Hadjidakis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
iconic performance by Melina Mercouri
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portrayal of a fiercely independent female protagonist ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Greek cinema classics ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Story of a fiercely independent woman who refuses to conform to traditional expectations, leading to a tragic end ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Cacoyannis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Finos Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Cacoyannis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alekos Alexandrakis
NERFINISHED
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Giorgos Fountas NERFINISHED ⓘ Melina Mercouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Vassilis Diamantopoulos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Stella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfCannesScreening | 1955 ⓘ |
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: Stella Description of subject: Stella is a 1955 Greek drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, renowned for its tragic story of a fiercely independent woman and its iconic performance by Melina Mercouri.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.