Lion (2016 film)
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Lion (2016 film) is a biographical drama about an Indian boy separated from his family who, as an adult in Australia, uses Google Earth to search for his birthplace and reunite with his mother.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lion (2016 film) canonical | 7 |
| Lion (film) | 6 |
| film Lion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10539769 — 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: Lion (2016 film) Context triple: [David Wenham, participatedIn, Lion (2016 film)]
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A.
Mufasa: The Lion King
Mufasa: The Lion King is an upcoming photorealistic prequel film in Disney’s Lion King franchise that explores the origin story of Simba’s father, Mufasa.
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B.
The Lion King (2019 film)
The Lion King (2019 film) is a photorealistic computer-animated remake of Disney's 1994 animated classic, retelling the story of Simba with advanced visual effects and an ensemble voice cast.
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C.
Tail of Lions (2016)
Tail of Lions (2016) is a studio album by British singer-songwriter Alex Clare that blends soulful vocals with electronic and rock-influenced production.
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D.
Leões
Leões is the popular nickname for Sporting Clube de Portugal, one of Portugal’s biggest football clubs, symbolizing the team’s lion emblem and fighting spirit.
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E.
The Lion King
The Lion King is a landmark 1994 Disney animated film that follows a young lion prince’s journey from exile to kingship and is celebrated for its music, storytelling, and cultural impact.
- 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: Lion (2016 film) Target entity description: Lion (2016 film) is a biographical drama about an Indian boy separated from his family who, as an adult in Australia, uses Google Earth to search for his birthplace and reunite with his mother.
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A.
Mufasa: The Lion King
Mufasa: The Lion King is an upcoming photorealistic prequel film in Disney’s Lion King franchise that explores the origin story of Simba’s father, Mufasa.
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B.
The Lion King (2019 film)
The Lion King (2019 film) is a photorealistic computer-animated remake of Disney's 1994 animated classic, retelling the story of Simba with advanced visual effects and an ensemble voice cast.
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C.
Tail of Lions (2016)
Tail of Lions (2016) is a studio album by British singer-songwriter Alex Clare that blends soulful vocals with electronic and rock-influenced production.
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D.
Leões
Leões is the popular nickname for Sporting Clube de Portugal, one of Portugal’s biggest football clubs, symbolizing the team’s lion emblem and fighting spirit.
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E.
The Lion King
The Lion King is a landmark 1994 Disney animated film that follows a young lion prince’s journey from exile to kingship and is celebrated for its music, storytelling, and cultural impact.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | A Long Way Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Saroo Brierley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnCoAuthor | Larry Buttrose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficeWorldwideUSD | 140000000 ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Greig Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Australia
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Garth Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | The Weinstein Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alexandre de Franceschi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTechnology | Google Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| language |
Bengali
ⓘ
English ⓘ Hindi ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Saroo Brierley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Dustin O’Halloran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Volker Bertelmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| oscarNominations | 6 ⓘ |
| portrays | Saroo Brierley’s search for his birth family ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Angie Fielder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emile Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Iain Canning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
See-Saw Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunstar Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2016-09-10 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 118 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Luke Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Australia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Abhishek Bharate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Wenham NERFINISHED ⓘ Dev Patel NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicole Kidman NERFINISHED ⓘ Priyanka Bose NERFINISHED ⓘ Rooney Mara NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunny Pawar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDateInUnitedStates | 2016-11-25 ⓘ |
| theme |
adoption
ⓘ
family reunion ⓘ identity ⓘ |
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: Lion (2016 film) Description of subject: Lion (2016 film) is a biographical drama about an Indian boy separated from his family who, as an adult in Australia, uses Google Earth to search for his birthplace and reunite with his mother.
Referenced by (14)
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