Heavy Metal
E591698
"Heavy Metal" is a 1981 animated science fantasy anthology film known for its adult-oriented themes, stylized visuals, and influential rock and metal soundtrack.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heavy Metal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6416659 — 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: Heavy Metal Context triple: [Elmer Bernstein, notableWork, Heavy Metal]
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A.
Metal
Metal is Apple’s low-level, high-performance graphics and compute API used for rendering and GPU-accelerated processing across its platforms.
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B.
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a late-1970s and early-1980s UK music movement that revitalized heavy metal with faster tempos, aggressive riffs, and a DIY ethos, launching bands like Iron Maiden and Def Leppard to international prominence.
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C.
Hard Rock
Hard Rock is a globally recognized entertainment and hospitality brand known for its rock-and-roll–themed restaurants, hotels, casinos, and music memorabilia.
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D.
Thrash
Thrash is the bird-themed mascot of the former NHL team the Atlanta Thrashers, known for his energetic and entertaining presence at games.
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E.
Heavy
"Heavy" is a 2017 pop-rock single by Linkin Park featuring Kiiara that marked a stylistic shift toward a more minimalist, electronic-influenced sound and sparked mixed reactions from fans and critics.
- 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: Heavy Metal Target entity description: "Heavy Metal" is a 1981 animated science fantasy anthology film known for its adult-oriented themes, stylized visuals, and influential rock and metal soundtrack.
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A.
Metal
Metal is Apple’s low-level, high-performance graphics and compute API used for rendering and GPU-accelerated processing across its platforms.
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B.
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a late-1970s and early-1980s UK music movement that revitalized heavy metal with faster tempos, aggressive riffs, and a DIY ethos, launching bands like Iron Maiden and Def Leppard to international prominence.
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C.
Hard Rock
Hard Rock is a globally recognized entertainment and hospitality brand known for its rock-and-roll–themed restaurants, hotels, casinos, and music memorabilia.
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D.
Thrash
Thrash is the bird-themed mascot of the former NHL team the Atlanta Thrashers, known for his energetic and entertaining presence at games.
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E.
Heavy
"Heavy" is a 2017 pop-rock single by Linkin Park featuring Kiiara that marked a stylistic shift toward a more minimalist, electronic-influenced sound and sparked mixed reactions from fans and critics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
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anthology film ⓘ science fantasy film ⓘ |
| animationStudio |
Atkinson Film-Arts
NERFINISHED
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CineGroupe NERFINISHED ⓘ Rovio Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Heavy Metal (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Bernard Zitzermann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Gerald Potterton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Ian Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Heavy Metal magazine stories ⓘ |
| genre |
adult animation
ⓘ
anthology ⓘ science fantasy ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
B-17
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captain Sternn NERFINISHED ⓘ Den NERFINISHED ⓘ Grimaldi NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ So Beautiful and So Dangerous NERFINISHED ⓘ Soft Landing NERFINISHED ⓘ Taarna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSoundtrackGenre |
heavy metal
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rock ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | Loc-Nar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Elmer Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
adult-oriented themes
ⓘ
influential rock and metal soundtrack ⓘ stylized visuals ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Ivan Reitman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| rating | R ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1981-08-07 ⓘ |
| runtime | 90 minutes ⓘ |
| title | Heavy Metal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceCastMember |
Don Francks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eugene Levy NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Ramis NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackie Burroughs NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Flaherty NERFINISHED ⓘ John Candy NERFINISHED ⓘ Marilyn Lightstone NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Romanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Heavy Metal Description of subject: "Heavy Metal" is a 1981 animated science fantasy anthology film known for its adult-oriented themes, stylized visuals, and influential rock and metal soundtrack.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.