The Dust of Time
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The Dust of Time is a 2008 art-house drama film by Greek director Theo Angelopoulos that weaves a man's search for his parents into a sweeping meditation on history, memory, and exile across the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Dust of Time canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9097646 — 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: The Dust of Time Context triple: [Theo Angelopoulos, notableWork, The Dust of Time]
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A.
Ashes of Time
Ashes of Time is a visually poetic 1994 wuxia film by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai that reimagines characters from Jin Yong’s novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in a fragmented, introspective style.
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B.
The Refusal of Time
The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
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C.
The Matter of Time
The Matter of Time is a monumental series of weathered steel sculptures by Richard Serra that creates immersive, maze-like spatial experiences for viewers, permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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D.
Shadows of Time
Shadows of Time is a film associated with Indian actor Sanjay Suri, recognized as one of his notable screen performances.
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E.
The Temporal Void
The Temporal Void is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton, the second book in his Void Trilogy, blending space opera with a mysterious, universe-altering phenomenon at its core.
- 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: The Dust of Time Target entity description: The Dust of Time is a 2008 art-house drama film by Greek director Theo Angelopoulos that weaves a man's search for his parents into a sweeping meditation on history, memory, and exile across the 20th century.
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A.
Ashes of Time
Ashes of Time is a visually poetic 1994 wuxia film by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai that reimagines characters from Jin Yong’s novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in a fragmented, introspective style.
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B.
The Refusal of Time
The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
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C.
The Matter of Time
The Matter of Time is a monumental series of weathered steel sculptures by Richard Serra that creates immersive, maze-like spatial experiences for viewers, permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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D.
Shadows of Time
Shadows of Time is a film associated with Indian actor Sanjay Suri, recognized as one of his notable screen performances.
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E.
The Temporal Void
The Temporal Void is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton, the second book in his Void Trilogy, blending space opera with a mysterious, universe-altering phenomenon at its core.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art-house film
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film ⓘ |
| cinematicStyle |
long takes
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slow cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Greece ⓘ |
| director | Theo Angelopoulos ⓘ |
| directorNationality | Greek ⓘ |
| follows | The Weeping Meadow ⓘ |
| genre |
art film
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drama ⓘ historical film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | A ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | search for parents ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
exile
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history ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Theo Angelopoulos Trilogy ⓘ |
| productionType | international co-production ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Theo Angelopoulos ⓘ |
| setting |
Europe
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Soviet Union ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| title | The Dust of Time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: The Dust of Time Description of subject: The Dust of Time is a 2008 art-house drama film by Greek director Theo Angelopoulos that weaves a man's search for his parents into a sweeping meditation on history, memory, and exile across the 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.