Onibaba
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Onibaba is a 1964 Japanese horror film by Kaneto Shindō, renowned for its stark black-and-white imagery and allegorical tale of survival, violence, and desire set in medieval rural Japan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Onibaba canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9846928 — 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: Onibaba Context triple: [Japanese New Wave, notableFilm, Onibaba]
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A.
Kagemusha
Kagemusha is a 1980 Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that explores themes of identity and power through the story of a thief recruited to impersonate a dying warlord.
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B.
Rashōmon
Rashōmon is a seminal short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores moral ambiguity and human desperation in a decaying Kyoto.
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C.
Otaru
Otaru is a historic port city in northern Japan known for its picturesque canal, preserved Meiji- and Taishō-era architecture, and fresh seafood.
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D.
Shishinden
Shishinden is the main ceremonial hall of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, historically used for enthronement rites and important imperial functions in Japan.
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E.
Ikiru
Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that follows a terminally ill bureaucrat’s search for meaning in his final days.
- 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: Onibaba Target entity description: Onibaba is a 1964 Japanese horror film by Kaneto Shindō, renowned for its stark black-and-white imagery and allegorical tale of survival, violence, and desire set in medieval rural Japan.
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A.
Kagemusha
Kagemusha is a 1980 Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that explores themes of identity and power through the story of a thief recruited to impersonate a dying warlord.
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B.
Rashōmon
Rashōmon is a seminal short story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores moral ambiguity and human desperation in a decaying Kyoto.
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C.
Otaru
Otaru is a historic port city in northern Japan known for its picturesque canal, preserved Meiji- and Taishō-era architecture, and fresh seafood.
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D.
Shishinden
Shishinden is the main ceremonial hall of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, historically used for enthronement rites and important imperial functions in Japan.
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E.
Ikiru
Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that follows a terminally ill bureaucrat’s search for meaning in his final days.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese horror film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Buddhist parable about a demon mask ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Kiyomi Kuroda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| director | Kaneto Shindō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Toho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hisao Enoki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalScreening | Venice Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Chiba Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ period drama film ⓘ psychological horror film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Hachi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
older woman ⓘ younger daughter-in-law ⓘ |
| homeMediaRelease |
Criterion Collection Blu-ray
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Criterion Collection DVD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later Japanese horror cinema ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hikaru Hayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | two women surviving by killing lost samurai ⓘ |
| notableFor |
allegorical storytelling
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stark black-and-white imagery ⓘ use of Noh-inspired demon mask ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| originalTitle | 鬼婆 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 1964 Venice Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Kindai Eiga Kyokai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Kaneto Shindō NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Muromachi period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
reed-filled marsh
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rural Japan ⓘ |
| settingTime | medieval Japan ⓘ |
| stars |
Jitsuko Yoshimura
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jūkichi Uno NERFINISHED ⓘ Kei Satō NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobuko Otowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
jealousy
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moral corruption ⓘ sexual desire ⓘ survival ⓘ violence ⓘ war ⓘ |
| title | Onibaba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Kaneto Shindō 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: Onibaba Description of subject: Onibaba is a 1964 Japanese horror film by Kaneto Shindō, renowned for its stark black-and-white imagery and allegorical tale of survival, violence, and desire set in medieval rural Japan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.