The Amazing Colossal Man
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The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 American science fiction film about a soldier who grows to enormous size after a plutonium bomb test, directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Amazing Colossal Man canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6416792 — 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 Amazing Colossal Man Context triple: [Bert I. Gordon, notableWork, The Amazing Colossal Man]
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A.
Ape-man
Ape-man is one of the grotesque human–animal hybrid creatures created through vivisection in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau."
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B.
Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters was an experimental noise rock and performance art collective from Michigan known for its avant-garde, underground approach and later association with members of bands like The Stooges and MC5.
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C.
Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters is a 1968 Japanese kaiju film from Toho Studios that features Godzilla and numerous other giant monsters in a climactic battle against alien-controlled invaders.
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D.
The Miracle Man
The Miracle Man was the famous nickname of baseball manager George Stallings, best known for leading the 1914 Boston Braves from last place to a stunning World Series championship.
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E.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe is a 1940 science-fiction movie serial featuring the comic-strip hero Flash Gordon battling the tyrant Ming the Merciless to save the universe.
- 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 Amazing Colossal Man Target entity description: The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 American science fiction film about a soldier who grows to enormous size after a plutonium bomb test, directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon.
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A.
Ape-man
Ape-man is one of the grotesque human–animal hybrid creatures created through vivisection in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau."
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B.
Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters is a 1968 Japanese kaiju film from Toho Studios that features Godzilla and numerous other giant monsters in a climactic battle against alien-controlled invaders.
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C.
Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters was an experimental noise rock and performance art collective from Michigan known for its avant-garde, underground approach and later association with members of bands like The Stooges and MC5.
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D.
The Miracle Man
The Miracle Man was the famous nickname of baseball manager George Stallings, best known for leading the 1914 Boston Braves from last place to a stunning World Series championship.
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E.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe is a 1940 science-fiction movie serial featuring the comic-strip hero Flash Gordon battling the tyrant Ming the Merciless to save the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American International Pictures giant monster cycle ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel "The Nth Man" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Homer Eon Flint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Cathy Downs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glenn Langan NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Thor NERFINISHED ⓘ William Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Benjamin H. Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Bert I. Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disasterType | radiation accident ⓘ |
| distributor | American International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Peter Rolfe Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1950s American science fiction cinema ⓘ |
| featuredWeapon | plutonium bomb ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| followedBy | War of the Colossal Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
monster film
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science fiction ⓘ |
| leadActor | Glenn Langan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lt. Col. Glenn Manning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryTheme | true ⓘ |
| musicBy | Albert Glasser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableElement | features a giant human created by radiation exposure ⓘ |
| nuclearTheme | true ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A U.S. Army officer exposed to a plutonium bomb test grows to enormous size and becomes increasingly unstable. ⓘ |
| producer | Bert I. Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Z-M Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | U.S. Army officer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1957-10-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bert I. Gordon
NERFINISHED
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Mark Hanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sequel | War of the Colossal Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Las Vegas
NERFINISHED
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Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | drive-in theaters ⓘ |
| title | The Amazing Colossal Man 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: The Amazing Colossal Man Description of subject: The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 American science fiction film about a soldier who grows to enormous size after a plutonium bomb test, directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.