Blindness
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"Blindness" is a 2008 dystopian drama film, based on José Saramago’s novel, that portrays the collapse of society after a sudden epidemic of mass blindness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blindness canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9995582 — 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: Blindness Context triple: [Alice Braga, notableWork, Blindness]
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A.
The Blind Leading the Blind
The Blind Leading the Blind is a 1568 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a line of blind men stumbling into a ditch, often interpreted as a moral and religious allegory about human folly and misguided leadership.
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B.
Les Aveugles
Les Aveugles is a symbolist one-act play by Maurice Maeterlinck that portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest, exploring themes of fate, uncertainty, and human helplessness.
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C.
Ciega, Sordomuda
"Ciega, Sordomuda" is a popular Latin pop-rock song by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, known as one of the standout singles from her breakthrough album "¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?"
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D.
The Blind Girl
The Blind Girl is a celebrated 1856 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, depicting two roadside beggar girls and exploring themes of disability, perception, and the natural world.
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E.
The Country of the Blind
"The Country of the Blind" is a classic short story by H. G. Wells about a sighted man who discovers a secluded valley of blind people and challenges their radically different perception of reality.
- 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: Blindness Target entity description: "Blindness" is a 2008 dystopian drama film, based on José Saramago’s novel, that portrays the collapse of society after a sudden epidemic of mass blindness.
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A.
The Blind Leading the Blind
The Blind Leading the Blind is a 1568 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a line of blind men stumbling into a ditch, often interpreted as a moral and religious allegory about human folly and misguided leadership.
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B.
Les Aveugles
Les Aveugles is a symbolist one-act play by Maurice Maeterlinck that portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest, exploring themes of fate, uncertainty, and human helplessness.
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C.
Ciega, Sordomuda
"Ciega, Sordomuda" is a popular Latin pop-rock song by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira, known as one of the standout singles from her breakthrough album "¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?"
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D.
The Blind Girl
The Blind Girl is a celebrated 1856 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, depicting two roadside beggar girls and exploring themes of disability, perception, and the natural world.
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E.
The Country of the Blind
"The Country of the Blind" is a classic short story by H. G. Wells about a sighted man who discovers a secluded valley of blind people and challenges their radically different perception of reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dystopian film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | José Saramago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Blindness (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | César Charlone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Marco Antônio Guimarães
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Uakti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Brazil
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Japan ⓘ |
| depicts |
authoritarianism
ⓘ
moral degradation ⓘ pandemic ⓘ |
| director | Fernando Meirelles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editor | Daniel Rezende NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Montevideo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
São Paulo NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
dystopian ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Alice Braga
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Danny Glover NERFINISHED ⓘ Don McKellar NERFINISHED ⓘ Gael García Bernal NERFINISHED ⓘ Julianne Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Ruffalo NERFINISHED ⓘ Maury Chaykin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitchell Nye NERFINISHED ⓘ Yoshino Kimura NERFINISHED ⓘ Yusuke Iseya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
blindness
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epidemic ⓘ quarantine ⓘ social collapse ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | quarantine facility ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Andrea Barata Ribeiro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Niv Fichman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonoko Sakai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Bee Vine Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
O2 Filmes NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhombus Media NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 121 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Don McKellar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | unnamed city ⓘ |
| worldPremiereEvent | 2008 Cannes Film Festival 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: Blindness Description of subject: "Blindness" is a 2008 dystopian drama film, based on José Saramago’s novel, that portrays the collapse of society after a sudden epidemic of mass blindness.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.