Salaam Bombay!
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Salaam Bombay! is a critically acclaimed 1988 Indian drama film directed by Mira Nair that portrays the harsh realities of street children in Mumbai.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Salaam Bombay! canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10392373 — 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: Salaam Bombay! Context triple: [Mira Nair, notableWork, Salaam Bombay!]
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A.
Mother India
Mother India is a national personification of India depicted as a nurturing yet embattled mother figure, widely used in literature, art, and political discourse to inspire patriotism and sacrifice.
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B.
Ghare Baire (1984 film)
Ghare Baire (1984 film) is an Indian Bengali-language drama directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novel, that explores nationalism, modernity, and a complex love triangle in early 20th-century Bengal.
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C.
Mr. India
Mr. India is a popular 1987 Indian science-fiction superhero film, best known for its invisible hero, iconic villain Mogambo, and Sridevi’s celebrated performance.
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D.
Maqbool
Maqbool is a critically acclaimed 2003 Indian crime drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which adapts Shakespeare’s Macbeth into the Mumbai underworld and features Irrfan Khan in a powerful lead role.
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E.
Nayak
Nayak refers to the dynasty of South Indian rulers, particularly known for their reign over Madurai and their significant contributions to Dravidian art, architecture, and culture during the post-Vijayanagara period.
- 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: Salaam Bombay! Target entity description: Salaam Bombay! is a critically acclaimed 1988 Indian drama film directed by Mira Nair that portrays the harsh realities of street children in Mumbai.
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A.
Mother India
Mother India is a national personification of India depicted as a nurturing yet embattled mother figure, widely used in literature, art, and political discourse to inspire patriotism and sacrifice.
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B.
Ghare Baire (1984 film)
Ghare Baire (1984 film) is an Indian Bengali-language drama directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novel, that explores nationalism, modernity, and a complex love triangle in early 20th-century Bengal.
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C.
Mr. India
Mr. India is a popular 1987 Indian science-fiction superhero film, best known for its invisible hero, iconic villain Mogambo, and Sridevi’s celebrated performance.
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D.
Maqbool
Maqbool is a critically acclaimed 2003 Indian crime drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, which adapts Shakespeare’s Macbeth into the Mumbai underworld and features Irrfan Khan in a powerful lead role.
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E.
Nayak
Nayak refers to the dynasty of South Indian rulers, particularly known for their reign over Madurai and their significant contributions to Dravidian art, architecture, and culture during the post-Vijayanagara period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian film
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film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Caméra d'Or
NERFINISHED
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National Film Award for Best Child Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sandi Sissel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | India ⓘ |
| director | Mira Nair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Cinécom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Barry Alexander Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSection | Un Certain Regard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Bombay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mumbai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt0096028 ⓘ |
| hasReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaLanguageEdition |
en
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hi ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
child labor
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poverty ⓘ street children ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| musicBy | L. Subramaniam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCastMember |
Chanda Sharma
NERFINISHED
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Hansa Vithal NERFINISHED ⓘ Nana Patekar NERFINISHED ⓘ Raghuvir Yadav NERFINISHED ⓘ Shafiq Syed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hindi ⓘ |
| portrays |
crime in urban India
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drug addiction ⓘ life of street children in Mumbai ⓘ prostitution ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 1988 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Mira Nair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mira Nair Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1988-05-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 113 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Mira Nair
NERFINISHED
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Sooni Taraporevala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
Bombay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mumbai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Salaam Bombay! 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: Salaam Bombay! Description of subject: Salaam Bombay! is a critically acclaimed 1988 Indian drama film directed by Mira Nair that portrays the harsh realities of street children in Mumbai.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.