78th Academy Awards
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The 78th Academy Awards was the 2006 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 2005, notable for "Crash" winning Best Picture over favorites like "Brokeback Mountain."
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| 78th Academy Awards canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10584554 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 78th Academy Awards Context triple: [77th Academy Awards, followedBy, 78th Academy Awards]
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A.
79th Academy Awards
The 79th Academy Awards was the 2007 ceremony honoring the best films of 2006, notable for recognizing "The Departed" as Best Picture.
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B.
80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards was the 2008 ceremony honoring the best films of 2007, held in Hollywood and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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C.
88th Academy Awards
The 88th Academy Awards was the 2016 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 2015, notable for recognizing movies like "Spotlight," "The Revenant," and "Mad Max: Fury Road."
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D.
73rd Academy Awards
The 73rd Academy Awards was the 2001 ceremony honoring the best films of 2000, notable for "Gladiator" winning Best Picture and being hosted by Steve Martin.
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E.
76th Academy Awards
The 76th Academy Awards was the 2004 ceremony honoring the best films of 2003, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 78th Academy Awards Target entity description: The 78th Academy Awards was the 2006 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 2005, notable for "Crash" winning Best Picture over favorites like "Brokeback Mountain."
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A.
79th Academy Awards
The 79th Academy Awards was the 2007 ceremony honoring the best films of 2006, notable for recognizing "The Departed" as Best Picture.
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B.
80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards was the 2008 ceremony honoring the best films of 2007, held in Hollywood and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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C.
88th Academy Awards
The 88th Academy Awards was the 2016 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 2015, notable for recognizing movies like "Spotlight," "The Revenant," and "Mad Max: Fury Road."
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D.
73rd Academy Awards
The 73rd Academy Awards was the 2001 ceremony honoring the best films of 2000, notable for "Gladiator" winning Best Picture and being hosted by Steve Martin.
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E.
76th Academy Awards
The 76th Academy Awards was the 2004 ceremony honoring the best films of 2003, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Academy Awards ceremony ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Oscars 2006 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestActorFilm | Capote NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestActorWinner | Philip Seymour Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestActressFilm | Walk the Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestActressWinner | Reese Witherspoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestAdaptedScreenplayWinner | Brokeback Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestAnimatedFeatureWinner | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestAnimatedShortFilmWinner | The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestArtDirectionWinner | Memoirs of a Geisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestCinematographyWinner | Memoirs of a Geisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestCostumeDesignWinner | Memoirs of a Geisha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestDirectorFilm | Brokeback Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestDirectorWinner | Ang Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestDocumentaryFeatureWinner | March of the Penguins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestDocumentaryShortSubjectWinner | A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestFilmEditingWinner | Crash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestForeignLanguageFilmWinner | Tsotsi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestLiveActionShortFilmWinner | Six Shooter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestMakeupWinner | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestOriginalScoreWinner | Brokeback Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestOriginalScreenplayWinner | Crash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestOriginalSongFilm | Hustle & Flow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestOriginalSongWinner | It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestPictureWinner | Crash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSoundEditingWinner | King Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSoundMixingWinner | King Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSupportingActorFilm | Syriana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSupportingActorWinner | George Clooney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSupportingActressFilm | The Constant Gardener NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestSupportingActressWinner | Rachel Weisz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bestVisualEffectsWinner | King Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceremonyNumber | 78 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| date | 2006-03-05 ⓘ |
| director | Louis J. Horvitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | 79th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredFilmYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| host | Jon Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Hollywood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kodak Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ |
| network | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Crash winning Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain ⓘ |
| ordinalNumber | 78 ⓘ |
| precededBy | 77th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| producer | Gil Cates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: 78th Academy Awards Description of subject: The 78th Academy Awards was the 2006 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 2005, notable for "Crash" winning Best Picture over favorites like "Brokeback Mountain."
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