Thirst
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Thirst is a 2009 South Korean horror-drama film directed by Park Chan-wook that follows a priest-turned-vampire struggling with faith, desire, and morality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thirst canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9087926 — 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: Thirst Context triple: [Chung Chung-hoon, notableWork, Thirst]
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A.
Properties of Thirst
Properties of Thirst is a historical novel by Marianne Wiggins that explores family, identity, and injustice in World War II–era America, particularly around the Japanese American internment camps.
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B.
Mezdra
Mezdra is a small town in northwestern Bulgaria known as a key railway junction and its location in the scenic Iskar River Gorge.
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C.
Hunger
Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen that portrays the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by Bobby Sands in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison.
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D.
Hunger
"Hunger" is a 2018 song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine that explores themes of longing, vulnerability, and self-destructive desire.
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E.
Hunger
Hunger is a seminal 1890 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun that follows a starving writer’s psychological descent and is considered an early landmark of modernist literature.
- 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: Thirst Target entity description: Thirst is a 2009 South Korean horror-drama film directed by Park Chan-wook that follows a priest-turned-vampire struggling with faith, desire, and morality.
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A.
Properties of Thirst
Properties of Thirst is a historical novel by Marianne Wiggins that explores family, identity, and injustice in World War II–era America, particularly around the Japanese American internment camps.
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B.
Mezdra
Mezdra is a small town in northwestern Bulgaria known as a key railway junction and its location in the scenic Iskar River Gorge.
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C.
Hunger
Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen that portrays the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by Bobby Sands in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison.
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D.
Hunger
"Hunger" is a 2018 song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine that explores themes of longing, vulnerability, and self-destructive desire.
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E.
Hunger
Hunger is a seminal 1890 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun that follows a starving writer’s psychological descent and is considered an early landmark of modernist literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
South Korean film
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film ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Bakjwi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Thérèse Raquin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Émile Zola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Chung Chung-hoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Korea ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Park Chan-wook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | CJ Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Kim Jae-bum
NERFINISHED
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Kim Sang-bum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSection | In Competition at Cannes ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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horror ⓘ vampire film ⓘ |
| language | Korean ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | Catholic priest ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Sang-hyun
NERFINISHED
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Tae-ju NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jo Yeong-wook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Park Chan-wook’s distinctive visual style
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combining horror and dark romance ⓘ |
| originalTitle | 박쥐 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A Catholic priest becomes a vampire after a failed medical experiment and struggles with his faith and desires. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Kim Ok-bin
NERFINISHED
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Song Kang-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Park Chan-wook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Moho Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| setting | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
desire
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faith ⓘ forbidden love ⓘ morality ⓘ vampirism ⓘ |
| writer |
Jeong Seo-kyeong
NERFINISHED
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Park Chan-wook 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: Thirst Description of subject: Thirst is a 2009 South Korean horror-drama film directed by Park Chan-wook that follows a priest-turned-vampire struggling with faith, desire, and morality.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.