Waves
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Waves is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults that follows a suburban African-American family coping with love, loss, and forgiveness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waves canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11337751 — 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: Waves Context triple: [Lucas Hedges, notableWork, Waves]
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A.
Waves
"Waves" is a melodic, gospel-influenced hip-hop song by Kanye West featuring Chris Brown and Kid Cudi, known for its soaring chorus and spiritual themes.
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B.
Waves
"Waves" is a smooth, atmospheric R&B song by Miguel that showcases his sensual vocals and genre-blending production.
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C.
Waves
The Waves is the nickname for the athletic teams that represent Pepperdine University in intercollegiate sports.
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D.
Wellen
Wellen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg, known for its rural character and fruit-growing landscape.
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E.
A Wave
"A Wave" is a song by the American rock band Kings of Leon from their album "When You See Yourself."
- 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: Waves Target entity description: Waves is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults that follows a suburban African-American family coping with love, loss, and forgiveness.
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A.
Waves
"Waves" is a melodic, gospel-influenced hip-hop song by Kanye West featuring Chris Brown and Kid Cudi, known for its soaring chorus and spiritual themes.
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B.
Waves
"Waves" is a smooth, atmospheric R&B song by Miguel that showcases his sensual vocals and genre-blending production.
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C.
Waves
The Waves is the nickname for the athletic teams that represent Pepperdine University in intercollegiate sports.
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D.
Wellen
Wellen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg, known for its rural character and fruit-growing landscape.
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E.
A Wave
"A Wave" is a song by the American rock band Kings of Leon from their album "When You See Yourself."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Drew Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Trey Edward Shults NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
A24
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal Pictures International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Isaac Hagy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trey Edward Shults NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features | needle-drop soundtrack ⓘ |
| follows | suburban African-American family ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasMetacriticScore | 81 ⓘ |
| hasRottenTomatoesRating | 84% ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainThemes |
forgiveness
ⓘ
loss ⓘ love ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Atticus Ross
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trent Reznor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | two-part story ⓘ |
| portrays |
family conflict
ⓘ
grief ⓘ high school wrestling ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
A24
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bron Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ JW Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUnitedStates | 2019-11-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 135 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | South Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Alexa Demie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clifton Collins Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelvin Harrison Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucas Hedges NERFINISHED ⓘ Renée Elise Goldsberry NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling K. Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylor Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereAt | Telluride Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| writer | Trey Edward Shults 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: Waves Description of subject: Waves is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults that follows a suburban African-American family coping with love, loss, and forgiveness.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.