Mad Max

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Australian film action film dystopian film film

Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film that launched a popular franchise and helped establish Mel Gibson as an international star.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Mad Max canonical	27
Mad Max film series	1
Mad Max franchise	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Australian film ⓘ action film ⓘ dystopian film ⓘ film ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	The Road Warrior franchise first film ⓘ
award	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Editing ⓘ surface form: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Editing (nominated) AFI Award for Best Original Music Score ⓘ surface form: Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Music Score (won)
boxOfficeUSD	over 100000000 ⓘ
budgetUSD	approximately 350000 ⓘ
cinematographyBy	David Eggby ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Australia ⓘ
director	George Miller ⓘ
distributor	American International Pictures ⓘ surface form: American International Pictures (US) Roadshow Film Distributors ⓘ
editedBy	Cliff Hayes ⓘ Tony Paterson ⓘ
filmingLocation	Victoria (Australia) ⓘ surface form: Victoria, Australia
followedBy	Mad Max 2 ⓘ
franchise	Mad Max self-link ⓘ
genre	action ⓘ dystopian ⓘ science fiction ⓘ
hasSequel	Mad Max 2 ⓘ Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ⓘ Mad Max: Fury Road ⓘ
mainCharacter	Max Rockatansky ⓘ
musicBy	Howard Blake ⓘ surface form: Brian May (composer)
notableFor	establishing Mel Gibson as an international star ⓘ launching the Mad Max franchise ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
portrays	breakdown of law and order ⓘ
producer	Byron Kennedy ⓘ
productionCompany	Kennedy Miller Productions ⓘ
ratingSystem	Australian classification system ⓘ
recordHeld	most profitable film ever made at the time of its release ⓘ
releaseDate	12 April 1979 ⓘ
releaseYear	1979 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	93 ⓘ
setIn	near-future Australia ⓘ
starring	Hugh Keays-Byrne ⓘ Joanne Samuel ⓘ Mel Gibson ⓘ Roger Ward ⓘ Steve Bisley ⓘ Tim Burns ⓘ
theme	revenge ⓘ societal collapse ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ
writer	George Miller ⓘ James McCausland ⓘ

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: Mad Max
Description of subject: Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film that launched a popular franchise and helped establish Mel Gibson as an international star.

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Australian New Wave cinema → notableFilm → Mad Max ⓘ

Mad Max: Fury Road → partOf → Mad Max ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mad Max franchise

Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road → appearsInFranchise → Mad Max ⓘ

subject surface form: Imperator Furiosa

Village Roadshow Pictures → notableFranchise → Mad Max ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mad Max film series

Richard Francis-Bruce → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

Mad Max → franchise → Mad Max self-link ⓘ

Mel Gibson → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

Mel Gibson → starredIn → Mad Max ⓘ

Max Mayfield → nickname → Mad Max ⓘ

George Miller → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

Walter Black; Mel Gibson → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

subject surface form: Mel Gibson

Kennedy Miller Mitchell → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga → partOfSeries → Mad Max ⓘ

Hugh Keays-Byrne → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

Hugh Keays-Byrne → portrayedIn → Mad Max ⓘ

Margaret Sixel → edited → Mad Max ⓘ

Max Rockatansky → fictionalUniverse → Mad Max ⓘ

Max Rockatansky → firstAppearance → Mad Max ⓘ

Max Rockatansky → filmAppearance → Mad Max ⓘ

Immortan Joe → franchise → Mad Max ⓘ

Nux → franchise → Mad Max ⓘ

Citadel → franchise → Mad Max ⓘ

subject surface form: Citadel (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Green Place of Many Mothers → universe → Mad Max ⓘ

Green Place → appearsInFranchise → Mad Max ⓘ

Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome → franchise → Mad Max ⓘ

subject surface form: Aunty Entity

Vuvalini → fictionalUniverse → Mad Max ⓘ

Australian cinema → notableFilm → Mad Max ⓘ

David Eggby → notableWork → Mad Max ⓘ

David Eggby → workedOn → Mad Max ⓘ