Europa
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Europa is a 1991 surreal, noir-style drama film by Danish director Lars von Trier, known for its striking visual style and hypnotic narrative set in post-World War II Germany.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Europa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9046265 — 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: Europa Context triple: [Lars von Trier, notableWork, Europa]
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Europa
Europa is one of Jupiter’s large icy moons, notable for its smooth frozen surface and the subsurface ocean that makes it a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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B.
Europa
Europa is a European-themed section of the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, featuring attractions, architecture, and cuisine inspired by various European countries.
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Europa
Europa is a figure in Greek mythology, a Phoenician princess famously abducted by Zeus and later the eponymous queen of Crete.
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Europa Europa
Europa Europa is a 1990 German drama film based on the true story of a Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust by posing as a member of the Hitler Youth.
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Euroa
Euroa is a small rural town in northeastern Victoria, Australia, known for its agricultural surroundings and historic connection to the Kelly Gang bushrangers.
- 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: Europa Target entity description: Europa is a 1991 surreal, noir-style drama film by Danish director Lars von Trier, known for its striking visual style and hypnotic narrative set in post-World War II Germany.
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A.
Europa
Europa is a figure in Greek mythology, a Phoenician princess famously abducted by Zeus and later the eponymous queen of Crete.
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B.
Europa
Europa is one of Jupiter’s large icy moons, notable for its smooth frozen surface and the subsurface ocean that makes it a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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C.
Europa
Europa is a European-themed section of the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, featuring attractions, architecture, and cuisine inspired by various European countries.
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D.
Europa Europa
Europa Europa is a 1990 German drama film based on the true story of a Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust by posing as a member of the Hitler Youth.
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E.
Euroa
Euroa is a small rural town in northeastern Victoria, Australia, known for its agricultural surroundings and historic connection to the Kelly Gang bushrangers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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noir film ⓘ surrealist film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Zentropa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Best Artistic Contribution at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
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Jury Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival ⓘ Technical Grand Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
Edward Klosinski
NERFINISHED
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Henning Bendtsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Paul Meurisse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Lars von Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hervé Schneid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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film noir ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess |
black-and-white
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color ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt0101829 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Leopold Kessler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | train conductor ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joachim Holbek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Max von Sydow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hypnotic narrative
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striking visual style ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
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German ⓘ |
| partOf | Europa trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Lars von Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Zentropa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 112 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | 1991 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPlace | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTime | post-World War II era ⓘ |
| starring |
Barbara Sukowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eddie Constantine NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Marc Barr NERFINISHED ⓘ Udo Kier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
rear projection
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superimposition ⓘ |
| writer |
Lars von Trier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Niels Vørsel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Europa Description of subject: Europa is a 1991 surreal, noir-style drama film by Danish director Lars von Trier, known for its striking visual style and hypnotic narrative set in post-World War II Germany.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.