Surrogates
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Surrogates is a 2009 science fiction action film set in a future where humans live in isolation and interact through robotic avatars, starring Bruce Willis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surrogates canonical | 4 |
| Surrogates (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6255263 — 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: Surrogates Context triple: [Alexa Havins, notableWork, Surrogates]
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A.
Ex Machina
Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction psychological thriller film about artificial intelligence and human consciousness, written and directed by Alex Garland.
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B.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 science-fiction romantic thriller film about a politician who discovers a mysterious organization that controls fate, co-starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
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C.
Resident Aliens
Resident Aliens is a influential theological book by Stanley Hauerwas (with William H. Willimon) that argues the church should live as a distinct, countercultural community within contemporary society.
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D.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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E.
Elysium
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in a dystopian future where a wealthy elite live on a luxurious space habitat while the rest of humanity struggles on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
- 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: Surrogates Target entity description: Surrogates is a 2009 science fiction action film set in a future where humans live in isolation and interact through robotic avatars, starring Bruce Willis.
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A.
Ex Machina
Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction psychological thriller film about artificial intelligence and human consciousness, written and directed by Alex Garland.
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B.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 science-fiction romantic thriller film about a politician who discovers a mysterious organization that controls fate, co-starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
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C.
Resident Aliens
Resident Aliens is a influential theological book by Stanley Hauerwas (with William H. Willimon) that argues the church should live as a distinct, countercultural community within contemporary society.
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D.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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E.
Elysium
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in a dystopian future where a wealthy elite live on a luxurious space habitat while the rest of humanity struggles on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action film
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film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Surrogates
NERFINISHED
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graphic novel ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Robert Venditti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnIllustrator | Brett Weldele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Oliver Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jonathan Mostow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Kevin Stitt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Boston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity
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isolation ⓘ surveillance ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| leadStudioLabel | Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tom Greer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Bruce Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Marvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | investigation of murders linked to surrogate technology ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premise | Humans live in isolation and interact through robotic surrogates ⓘ |
| producer |
David Hoberman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Todd Lieberman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Mandeville Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Touchstone Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-09-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
John Brancato
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Ferris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
near future ⓘ |
| starring |
Boris Kodjoe
NERFINISHED
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Bruce Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Noseworthy NERFINISHED ⓘ James Cromwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Radha Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosamund Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ Ving Rhames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Surrogates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Surrogates Description of subject: Surrogates is a 2009 science fiction action film set in a future where humans live in isolation and interact through robotic avatars, starring Bruce Willis.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Surrogates (film)