The Fly (1958 film)
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The Fly (1958 film) is a classic science fiction–horror movie about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to a terrifying human-fly hybrid.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fly (1958 film) canonical | 6 |
| The Fly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5500314 — 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.
Target entity: The Fly (1958 film) Context triple: [Vincent Price, notableWork, The Fly (1958 film)]
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A.
The Fly
The Fly is a comic book superhero, later known as Fly-Man, who debuted in the early 1960s from Archie Comics as an insect-powered crimefighter.
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The Fly
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to his gradual transformation into a human-fly hybrid.
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C.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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D.
V’Ger
V’Ger is the immensely powerful, evolved space probe that serves as the central enigmatic antagonist in the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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E.
It Came from Outer Space
It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction film about an alien spacecraft crash-landing in the Arizona desert, noted for its early use of 3D and its sympathetic portrayal of extraterrestrials.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Fly (1958 film) Target entity description: The Fly (1958 film) is a classic science fiction–horror movie about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to a terrifying human-fly hybrid.
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A.
The Fly
The Fly is a comic book superhero, later known as Fly-Man, who debuted in the early 1960s from Archie Comics as an insect-powered crimefighter.
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B.
The Fly
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to his gradual transformation into a human-fly hybrid.
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C.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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D.
V’Ger
V’Ger is the immensely powerful, evolved space probe that serves as the central enigmatic antagonist in the film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."
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E.
It Came from Outer Space
It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction film about an alien spacecraft crash-landing in the Arizona desert, noted for its early use of 3D and its sympathetic portrayal of extraterrestrials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | CinemaScope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Fly (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | George Langelaan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnPublicationYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
David Hedison as André Delambre
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Herbert Marshall as Inspector Charas ⓘ Patricia Owens as Hélène Delambre ⓘ Vincent Price as François Delambre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Karl Struss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Color by DeLuxe ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Kurt Neumann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Merrill G. White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Curse of the Fly
NERFINISHED
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Return of the Fly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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science fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
André Delambre
NERFINISHED
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François Delambre NERFINISHED ⓘ Hélène Delambre NERFINISHED ⓘ Inspector Charas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Paul Sawtell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | framed as a murder investigation and confession ⓘ |
| notableFor | early use of body horror in mainstream American cinema ⓘ |
| notableScene |
The reveal of André Delambre with a fly head and clawed arm
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The tiny fly with a human head crying "Help me!" in a spider web ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A scientist becomes a human-fly hybrid after a teleportation experiment goes wrong. ⓘ |
| producer | Kurt Neumann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1958-07-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| remadeAs | The Fly (1986 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | James Clavell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Montreal
NERFINISHED
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Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starred |
David Hedison
NERFINISHED
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Herbert Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
ethics of science
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loss of humanity ⓘ scientific experimentation gone wrong ⓘ |
| title | The Fly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: The Fly (1958 film) Description of subject: The Fly (1958 film) is a classic science fiction–horror movie about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to a terrifying human-fly hybrid.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.