The Spiderwick Chronicles
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The Spiderwick Chronicles is a fantasy film adaptation of the popular children's book series, following siblings who discover a hidden world of magical creatures after moving into a mysterious old estate.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spiderwick Chronicles canonical | 10 |
| The Spiderwick Chronicles book series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6804736 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Spiderwick Chronicles Context triple: [David Strathairn, notableWork, The Spiderwick Chronicles]
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A.
The Spook’s Apprentice
The Spook’s Apprentice is a dark fantasy novel by Joseph Delaney, the first book in the Wardstone Chronicles series, following a young boy apprenticed to a local exorcist who battles ghosts, witches, and other supernatural threats.
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B.
Books of Magic
Books of Magic is a dark fantasy comic series from DC’s Vertigo imprint that follows a young boy, Timothy Hunter, as he is introduced to the hidden world of magic and destiny.
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C.
Inkspell
Inkspell is the second novel in Cornelia Funke’s popular Inkworld fantasy series, continuing the story of Meggie and her family as they become further entangled in the magical book world first introduced in Inkheart.
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D.
Wards of Faerie
Wards of Faerie is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, launching The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy with a quest centered on lost Elfstones and ancient magic.
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E.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, about a man who can bring characters from books to life by reading aloud.
- 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 Spiderwick Chronicles Target entity description: The Spiderwick Chronicles is a fantasy film adaptation of the popular children's book series, following siblings who discover a hidden world of magical creatures after moving into a mysterious old estate.
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A.
The Spook’s Apprentice
The Spook’s Apprentice is a dark fantasy novel by Joseph Delaney, the first book in the Wardstone Chronicles series, following a young boy apprenticed to a local exorcist who battles ghosts, witches, and other supernatural threats.
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B.
Books of Magic
Books of Magic is a dark fantasy comic series from DC’s Vertigo imprint that follows a young boy, Timothy Hunter, as he is introduced to the hidden world of magic and destiny.
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C.
Inkspell
Inkspell is the second novel in Cornelia Funke’s popular Inkworld fantasy series, continuing the story of Meggie and her family as they become further entangled in the magical book world first introduced in Inkheart.
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D.
Wards of Faerie
Wards of Faerie is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, launching The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy with a quest centered on lost Elfstones and ancient magic.
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E.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, about a man who can bring characters from books to life by reading aloud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fantasy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Spiderwick Chronicles book series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy |
Holly Black
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony DiTerlizzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Arthur Spiderwick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jared Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ Mallory Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ Mulgarath NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Caleb Deschanel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Mark Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Nickelodeon Movies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
children's film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family
ⓘ
good versus evil ⓘ magic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | James Horner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Siblings discover a hidden world of magical creatures after moving into a mysterious old estate. ⓘ |
| producer |
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Larry Franco NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Canton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Nickelodeon Movies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Kennedy/Marshall Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2008-02-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Berenbaum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Sayles NERFINISHED ⓘ Karey Kirkpatrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Spiderwick Estate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
David Strathairn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Freddie Highmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Short NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary-Louise Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Nolte NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Bolger NERFINISHED ⓘ Seth Rogen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
families ⓘ |
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: The Spiderwick Chronicles Description of subject: The Spiderwick Chronicles is a fantasy film adaptation of the popular children's book series, following siblings who discover a hidden world of magical creatures after moving into a mysterious old estate.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Spiderwick Chronicles book series