Fences (2016 film)
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Fences (2016 film) is a 2016 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington, adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an African American family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fences | 27 |
| Fences (2016 film) canonical | 7 |
| Fences (play) | 3 |
| Fences (film) | 2 |
| Fences (Broadway revival) | 1 |
| Fences (franchise) | 1 |
| Fences (play, Broadway revival) | 1 |
| Fences (stage production) | 1 |
| “Fences” by August Wilson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T684120 — 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)
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Target entity: Fences (2016 film) Context triple: [Scott Rudin, notableWork, Fences (2016 film)]
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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B.
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
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The Green Book
The Green Book is Muammar Gaddafi’s political manifesto outlining his idiosyncratic “Third International Theory,” which rejects both capitalism and communism and proposes a system of direct popular rule.
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The Color Purple (Broadway revival)
The Color Purple (Broadway revival) is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical revival of the stage adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, noted for its powerful gospel-, blues-, and soul-infused score and acclaimed performances.
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E.
August: Osage County
August: Osage County is a darkly comic drama about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize–winning play and known for its acclaimed ensemble cast.
- 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: Fences (2016 film) Target entity description: Fences (2016 film) is a 2016 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington, adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an African American family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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A.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 drama film adaptation of August Wilson's play, depicting tensions within a 1920s blues band and featuring one of Chadwick Boseman's most acclaimed final performances.
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B.
If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by James Baldwin that portrays a young Black couple’s love and struggle for justice in Harlem amid systemic racism and wrongful imprisonment.
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C.
The Green Book
The Green Book is Muammar Gaddafi’s political manifesto outlining his idiosyncratic “Third International Theory,” which rejects both capitalism and communism and proposes a system of direct popular rule.
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D.
The Color Purple (Broadway revival)
The Color Purple (Broadway revival) is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical revival of the stage adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, noted for its powerful gospel-, blues-, and soul-infused score and acclaimed performances.
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E.
August: Osage County
August: Osage County is a darkly comic drama about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize–winning play and known for its acclaimed ensemble cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Fences (2016 film) Description of subject: Fences (2016 film) is a 2016 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington, adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an African American family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
Referenced by (44)
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