Visit to a Small Planet
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Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 science-fiction comedy film starring Jerry Lewis, adapted from Gore Vidal’s play about an alien visitor who comes to Earth and becomes entangled in Cold War-era American culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Visit to a Small Planet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6262643 — 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: Visit to a Small Planet Context triple: [Norman Taurog, notableWork, Visit to a Small Planet]
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A.
The Mysterious Planet
The Mysterious Planet is a science fiction novel by Lester del Rey, known for blending adventure with speculative scientific ideas in a mysterious extraterrestrial setting.
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B.
The Inhabited Planet
"The Inhabited Planet" is a science fiction short story featured in Arthur C. Clarke’s humorous bar-story collection *Tales from the White Hart*.
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C.
The Planetary Report
The Planetary Report is a magazine published by The Planetary Society that covers planetary science, space exploration, and related advocacy efforts for a general audience.
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D.
The Lives of the Planets
"The Lives of the Planets" is an episode of Carl Sagan’s landmark science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the origins, evolution, and diverse characteristics of the planets in our solar system.
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E.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
- 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: Visit to a Small Planet Target entity description: Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 science-fiction comedy film starring Jerry Lewis, adapted from Gore Vidal’s play about an alien visitor who comes to Earth and becomes entangled in Cold War-era American culture.
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A.
The Mysterious Planet
The Mysterious Planet is a science fiction novel by Lester del Rey, known for blending adventure with speculative scientific ideas in a mysterious extraterrestrial setting.
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B.
The Inhabited Planet
"The Inhabited Planet" is a science fiction short story featured in Arthur C. Clarke’s humorous bar-story collection *Tales from the White Hart*.
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C.
The Planetary Report
The Planetary Report is a magazine published by The Planetary Society that covers planetary science, space exploration, and related advocacy efforts for a general audience.
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D.
The Lives of the Planets
"The Lives of the Planets" is an episode of Carl Sagan’s landmark science documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage* that explores the origins, evolution, and diverse characteristics of the planets in our solar system.
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E.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Visit to a Small Planet (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Gore Vidal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Barbara Lawson
NERFINISHED
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Bert Freed NERFINISHED ⓘ Earl Holliman NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellen Corby NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Gale Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ James Millhollin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerome Cowan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Blackman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Turkel NERFINISHED ⓘ John Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Milton Frome NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Loyal Griggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Norman Taurog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Warren Low NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Kreton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Jerry Lewis as Kreton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | alien visitor ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Walter Scharf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
American culture
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Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPlayPremiereYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| playwrightOfSourceWork | Gore Vidal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hal Wallis Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 85 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Edmund Beloin
NERFINISHED
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Henry Garson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Cold War era ⓘ |
| starredActor | Jerry Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studio | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Visit to a Small Planet 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: Visit to a Small Planet Description of subject: Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 science-fiction comedy film starring Jerry Lewis, adapted from Gore Vidal’s play about an alien visitor who comes to Earth and becomes entangled in Cold War-era American culture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.