Selma Ježková
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Selma Ježková is the tragic, near-blind Czech immigrant and factory worker portrayed by Björk in Lars von Trier’s musical drama film "Dancer in the Dark."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selma Ježková canonical | 4 |
| Selma Jezkova | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9428555 — 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: Selma Ježková Context triple: [Dancer in the Dark, followsCharacter, Selma Ježková]
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A.
Dagmar Pecková
Dagmar Pecková is a renowned Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer known for her performances on major European stages and her interpretations of both classical and contemporary repertoire.
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B.
Marta Kubišová
Marta Kubišová is a Czech singer and dissident renowned both for her powerful anti-communist protest songs and for her prominent role in the Czechoslovak human rights movement.
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C.
Milena Králíčková
Milena Králíčková is a Czech academic and physician who serves as the rector of Charles University in Prague.
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D.
Dagmar Havlová
Dagmar Havlová is a Czech actress and former First Lady of the Czech Republic, known for her film and theater work as well as her marriage to President Václav Havel.
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E.
Magdaléna Husáková
Magdaléna Husáková was the wife of former Czechoslovak president Gustáv Husák and a Slovak communist activist who was imprisoned during the Stalinist purges.
- 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: Selma Ježková Target entity description: Selma Ježková is the tragic, near-blind Czech immigrant and factory worker portrayed by Björk in Lars von Trier’s musical drama film "Dancer in the Dark."
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A.
Dagmar Pecková
Dagmar Pecková is a renowned Czech mezzo-soprano opera singer known for her performances on major European stages and her interpretations of both classical and contemporary repertoire.
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B.
Marta Kubišová
Marta Kubišová is a Czech singer and dissident renowned both for her powerful anti-communist protest songs and for her prominent role in the Czechoslovak human rights movement.
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C.
Milena Králíčková
Milena Králíčková is a Czech academic and physician who serves as the rector of Charles University in Prague.
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D.
Dagmar Havlová
Dagmar Havlová is a Czech actress and former First Lady of the Czech Republic, known for her film and theater work as well as her marriage to President Václav Havel.
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E.
Magdaléna Husáková
Magdaléna Husáková was the wife of former Czechoslovak president Gustáv Husák and a Slovak communist activist who was imprisoned during the Stalinist purges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dancer in the Dark ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmReleasedIn | 2000 ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| createdBy | Lars von Trier ⓘ |
| fantasizesThrough | musical numbers ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Lars von Trier ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | musical drama ⓘ |
| hasChild | Gene Ježek ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Czech background ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Kathy ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasHobby | musicals ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCondition | progressive blindness ⓘ |
| hasNationality | Czech ⓘ |
| hasNeighbor | Bill Houston ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
amateur stage performer
ⓘ
factory worker ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | working class ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
imaginative
ⓘ
musically talented ⓘ optimistic ⓘ self-sacrificing ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
film Dancer in the Dark
ⓘ
linked to:
Dancer in the Dark
|
| isExploitedBy | Bill Houston ⓘ |
| isImmigrantTo |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isKnownFor |
daydreaming musical sequences
ⓘ
singing in the factory ⓘ |
| isMotherOf | Gene Ježek ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Czech
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | tragic heroine ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| portrayedByNationality |
Icelandic singer Björk
ⓘ
linked to:
Bjork
|
| primaryMotivation | to save money for her son’s eye operation ⓘ |
| residesIn | rural United States ⓘ |
| savesMoneyFor | Gene’s medical operation ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | death ⓘ |
| storySettingPeriod | 1960s United States ⓘ |
| storyThemeInvolvement |
capital punishment
ⓘ
disability ⓘ immigration ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| visualImpairmentInheritedBy | Gene Ježek ⓘ |
| worksAt | factory ⓘ |
| wronglyAccusedOf | murder ⓘ |
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: Selma Ježková Description of subject: Selma Ježková is the tragic, near-blind Czech immigrant and factory worker portrayed by Björk in Lars von Trier’s musical drama film "Dancer in the Dark."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Selma Ježková