The Fly II
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The Fly II is a 1989 science fiction horror film and sequel to David Cronenberg’s The Fly, following the tragic transformation of the original scientist’s son.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fly II canonical | 2 |
| The Fly II (additional sequences) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6955732 — 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 Fly II Context triple: [Frank Darabont, screenwriterOf, The Fly II]
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A.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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B.
The Fly
The Fly is a comic book superhero, later known as Fly-Man, who debuted in the early 1960s from Archie Comics as an insect-powered crimefighter.
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C.
The Fly
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to his gradual transformation into a human-fly hybrid.
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D.
The Fly (1958 film)
The Fly (1958 film) is a classic science fiction–horror movie about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to a terrifying human-fly hybrid.
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E.
Fly (1999)
Fly (1999) is a Grammy-winning country music album by the Dixie Chicks that helped cement their mainstream popularity with hits like "Cowboy Take Me Away" and "Goodbye Earl."
- 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 Fly II Target entity description: The Fly II is a 1989 science fiction horror film and sequel to David Cronenberg’s The Fly, following the tragic transformation of the original scientist’s son.
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A.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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B.
The Fly
The Fly is a comic book superhero, later known as Fly-Man, who debuted in the early 1960s from Archie Comics as an insect-powered crimefighter.
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C.
The Fly
The Fly is a 1986 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to his gradual transformation into a human-fly hybrid.
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D.
The Fly (1958 film)
The Fly (1958 film) is a classic science fiction–horror movie about a scientist whose teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, leading to a terrifying human-fly hybrid.
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E.
Fly (1999)
Fly (1999) is a Grammy-winning country music album by the Dixie Chicks that helped cement their mainstream popularity with hits like "Cowboy Take Me Away" and "Goodbye Earl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Fly (1986 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Anton Bartok
NERFINISHED
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Beth Logan NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Brundle NERFINISHED ⓘ Stathis Borans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robin Vidgeon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Chris Walas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| editedBy | Sean Barton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresFictionalTechnology | teleportation pods ⓘ |
| follows | The Fly (1986 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
body horror film
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corporate exploitation
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genetic mutation ⓘ scientific experimentation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | Anton Bartok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainProtagonist | Martin Brundle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Christopher Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | extensive practical creature effects ⓘ |
| parentWork | The Fly franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Fly film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | The film follows Martin Brundle, the son of scientist Seth Brundle, who suffers from accelerated growth and genetic mutation due to his father’s teleportation experiments. ⓘ |
| prequel | The Fly (1986 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Steven-Charles Jaffe
NERFINISHED
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Stuart Cornfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Brooksfilms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | February 10, 1989 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jim Wheat
NERFINISHED
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Ken Wheat NERFINISHED ⓘ Mick Garris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Bartok Industries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specialEffectsBy | Chris Walas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Daphne Zuniga
NERFINISHED
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Eric Stoltz NERFINISHED ⓘ John Getz NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Fly II 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 Fly II Description of subject: The Fly II is a 1989 science fiction horror film and sequel to David Cronenberg’s The Fly, following the tragic transformation of the original scientist’s son.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Fly II (additional sequences)
subject surface form:
The Fly (1986 film)