Willow

E14248

adventure film fantasy film film

Willow is a 1988 fantasy adventure film directed by Ron Howard that follows an aspiring sorcerer who must protect a prophesied child from an evil queen.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Willow canonical	30
Willow (1988 film)	8
Willow (TV series)	6
1988 film Willow	4
Willow (2022 TV series)	3
Willow universe	3
Willow film series	1
film Willow (1988)	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	adventure film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ film ⓘ
antagonist	Queen Bavmorda ⓘ
basedOn	original story by George Lucas ⓘ
cinematographyBy	Adrian Biddle ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Ron Howard ⓘ
distributedBy	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
distributedInFormat	theatrical release ⓘ
editedBy	Richard Hiscott ⓘ Tina Hirsch ⓘ
filmingLocation	New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
genre	adventure ⓘ fantasy ⓘ
hasHomeMediaRelease	Blu-ray ⓘ DVD ⓘ VHS ⓘ digital download ⓘ
hasSequelSeries	Willow self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Willow (2022 TV series)
hasTheme	destiny ⓘ good versus evil ⓘ heroic quest ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainCharacter	Willow Ufgood ⓘ
mainCharacterOccupation	aspiring sorcerer ⓘ
musicBy	James Horner ⓘ
nominatedFor	Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing ⓘ Academy Award for Best Visual Effects ⓘ
partOf	Willow franchise ⓘ
plotSummary	An aspiring sorcerer must protect a prophesied child from an evil queen. ⓘ
producer	George Lucas ⓘ Joe Johnston ⓘ
productionCompany	Lucasfilm ⓘ
releaseDate	1988-05-20 ⓘ
releaseYear	1988 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	126 ⓘ
screenwriter	Bob Dolman ⓘ
setInUniverse	fictional fantasy world ⓘ
specialEffectsCompany	Industrial Light & Magic ⓘ
starring	Billy Barty ⓘ Jean Marsh ⓘ Joanne Whalley ⓘ Val Kilmer ⓘ Warwick Davis ⓘ
storyBy	George Lucas ⓘ

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: Willow
Description of subject: Willow is a 1988 fantasy adventure film directed by Ron Howard that follows an aspiring sorcerer who must protect a prophesied child from an evil queen.

Referenced by (56)

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

Ron Howard → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Ron Howard → directed → Willow ⓘ

George Lucas → produced → Willow ⓘ

Willow → hasSequelSeries → Willow self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (2022 TV series)

Ronald → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

subject surface form: Ronald William Howard

Ronald William Howard → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

subject surface form: Ron Howard

Warwick Davis → knownFor → Willow ⓘ

Warwick Davis → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (1988 film)

Jonathan Kasdan → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (TV series)

Jonathan Kasdan → showrunnerOf → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (TV series)

Joanne Whalley → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (2022 TV series)

Jean Marsh → appearedIn → Willow ⓘ

Dennis Muren → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Dennis Muren → workedOn → Willow ⓘ

Billy Barty → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Queen Bavmorda → appearsIn → Willow ⓘ

Queen Bavmorda → featuredIn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1988 film Willow

Phil Tippett → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Val Kilmer → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Val Kilmer → appearedIn → Willow ⓘ

Willow Ufgood → givenName → Willow ⓘ

Willow Ufgood → appearsIn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (1988 film)

Willow Ufgood → createdFor → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (1988 film)

Willow Ufgood → firstAppearance → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (1988 film)

Kevin Pollak → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Willow (film score) → forWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (1988 film)

Willow (film score) → basedOn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (1988 film)

Mike Hill → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Kenny Baker → appearedIn → Willow ⓘ

Richard Hiscott → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (TV series)

Richard Hiscott → workedOn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (TV series)

Rick Overton → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Rick Overton → workedOn → Willow ⓘ

Bob Dolman → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Bob Dolman → coWrote → Willow ⓘ

Tony Revolori → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (TV series)

Tony Revolori → portrayedInWork → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (TV series)

Gavan O'Herlihy → appearedIn → Willow ⓘ

Mike Edmonds → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Malcolm Dixon → notableWork → Willow ⓘ

Madmartigan → appearsIn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1988 film Willow

Madmartigan → firstAppearance → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: film Willow (1988)

Sorsha → appearsIn → Willow ⓘ

Sorsha → introducedIn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1988 film Willow

Sorsha → appearsIn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow (2022 TV series)

Sorsha → settingUniverse → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: Willow universe

Fin Raziel → appearsIn → Willow ⓘ

this entity surface form: 1988 film Willow