Dr. Thorkel

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Dr. Thorkel is the main villainous scientist in the 1940 science fiction horror film "Dr. Cyclops," known for using radiation to shrink humans for his experiments.

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Label Occurrences
Dr. Thorkel canonical 2

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
mad scientist
villain
appearsIn Dr. Cyclops
appearsInGenre horror film
science fiction film
associatedWithTheme abuse of scientific power
dangers of unchecked science
createdFor Paramount Pictures film production
eraOfCreation Hollywood Golden Age
surface form: Golden Age of Hollywood
fictionalStatus non-supernatural human villain
filmReleaseYear 1940
goal pursuit of scientific knowledge regardless of ethics
languageOfWork English
medium live-action film
moralAlignment villainous
nationalityInStory likely German
notableFor using radiation to shrink humans
occupation scientist
personalityTrait amoral
obsessive
ruthless
primaryMethod exposure to concentrated radiation
roleInStory main antagonist
scientificField radiation research
settingOfWorkplace remote jungle laboratory
threatTo other characters in Dr. Cyclops
treatsHumansAs experimental subjects
usesForExperiments shrunken humans

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: Dr. Thorkel
Description of subject: Dr. Thorkel is the main villainous scientist in the 1940 science fiction horror film "Dr. Cyclops," known for using radiation to shrink humans for his experiments.

Referenced by (2)

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

Dr. Cyclops character Dr. Thorkel
Dr. Cyclops hasVillain Dr. Thorkel