The Space Children
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The Space Children is a 1958 American science fiction film about a group of children telepathically guided by an alien intelligence to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Space Children canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5297735 — 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: The Space Children Context triple: [Jack Arnold, notableWork, The Space Children]
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A.
Orphans of the Sky
Orphans of the Sky is a classic science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a generation ship whose inhabitants have forgotten their origins and believe their vessel is the entire universe.
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B.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
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C.
The Age of Space
The Age of Space was the futuristic, space-exploration-focused theme that shaped the exhibits, architecture, and cultural vision of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
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D.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a boy sold into slavery who becomes embroiled in interstellar politics and the fight against galactic slave trading.
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E.
The Reluctant Astronaut
The Reluctant Astronaut is a 1967 comedy film starring Don Knotts as a timid carnival ride operator who is unexpectedly recruited into the U.S. space program.
- 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: The Space Children Target entity description: The Space Children is a 1958 American science fiction film about a group of children telepathically guided by an alien intelligence to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.
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A.
Orphans of the Sky
Orphans of the Sky is a classic science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a generation ship whose inhabitants have forgotten their origins and believe their vessel is the entire universe.
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B.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
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C.
The Age of Space
The Age of Space was the futuristic, space-exploration-focused theme that shaped the exhibits, architecture, and cultural vision of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
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D.
Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a boy sold into slavery who becomes embroiled in interstellar politics and the fight against galactic slave trading.
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E.
The Reluctant Astronaut
The Reluctant Astronaut is a 1967 comedy film starring Don Knotts as a timid carnival ride operator who is unexpectedly recruited into the U.S. space program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Ellis W. Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Van Cleave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictType | attempted nuclear missile launch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jack Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Terry O. Morse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredOn | Mystery Science Theater 3000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasAlienEntity | giant glowing brain-like creature ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Adam Williams
NERFINISHED
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Jackie Coogan NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Webber NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandy Descher NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyler McVey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Anne Brewster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bud Brewster NERFINISHED ⓘ Col. Manley NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave Brewster NERFINISHED ⓘ Hank Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmingTechnique | special effects for alien brain creature ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| MST3KEpisode | Season 9, Episode 9 ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | children with telepathic connection to alien being ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of children are telepathically guided by an alien intelligence to sabotage a nuclear missile test and prevent a nuclear catastrophe. ⓘ |
| producer | William Alland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1958-06-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 69 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Tom Filer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
California coast
NERFINISHED
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missile base ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| theme |
Cold War anxiety
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anti-nuclear weapons ⓘ children as moral agents ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | Cold War era ⓘ |
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: The Space Children Description of subject: The Space Children is a 1958 American science fiction film about a group of children telepathically guided by an alien intelligence to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.