The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 made-for-television drama film starring John Travolta as a boy with a compromised immune system who must live in a sterile environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Boy in the Plastic Bubble canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7141659 — 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 Boy in the Plastic Bubble Context triple: [David Permut, notableWork, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble]
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A.
The Bubble
The Bubble is a recording studio and music production facility co-founded by producer and engineer Frenchie Smith, known for its work with rock and alternative artists.
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B.
Hole in the Wall
Hole in the Wall is a famous natural sea-arch rock formation along South Africa’s Wild Coast, known for its striking coastal scenery and cultural significance.
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C.
Ten Years in the Tub
Ten Years in the Tub is a collection of Nick Hornby’s book-review columns, offering a decade-long chronicle of his reading life and literary enthusiasms.
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D.
Goodbye to Childhood
"Goodbye to Childhood" is a song from the 1963 jazz album *Speak Like a Child* by trumpeter and composer Freddie Hubbard.
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E.
The Baby
"The Baby" is a country song recorded by Blake Shelton that became one of his early signature hits.
- 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 Boy in the Plastic Bubble Target entity description: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 made-for-television drama film starring John Travolta as a boy with a compromised immune system who must live in a sterile environment.
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A.
The Bubble
The Bubble is a recording studio and music production facility co-founded by producer and engineer Frenchie Smith, known for its work with rock and alternative artists.
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B.
Hole in the Wall
Hole in the Wall is a famous natural sea-arch rock formation along South Africa’s Wild Coast, known for its striking coastal scenery and cultural significance.
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C.
Ten Years in the Tub
Ten Years in the Tub is a collection of Nick Hornby’s book-review columns, offering a decade-long chronicle of his reading life and literary enthusiasms.
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D.
Goodbye to Childhood
"Goodbye to Childhood" is a song from the 1963 jazz album *Speak Like a Child* by trumpeter and composer Freddie Hubbard.
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E.
The Baby
"The Baby" is a country song recorded by Blake Shelton that became one of his early signature hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| basedOn | the lives of David Vetter and Ted DeVita ⓘ |
| broadcastType | prime-time television movie ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | William Cronjager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Randal Kleiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Art Seid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingFormat | color ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
medical drama ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDescription | 1976 American made-for-TV drama about a boy living in a sterile plastic enclosure due to immune deficiency. ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
ⓘ
isolation ⓘ medical ethics ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| inspiredOtherWork | Bubble Boy (2001 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFictionalWorkAbout |
primary immunodeficiency
ⓘ
severe combined immunodeficiency ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tod Lubitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Snow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early major role for John Travolta ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalReleaseDate | 1976-11-12 ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A boy with a compromised immune system must live in a sterile plastic environment to avoid infection. ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter | John Travolta as Tod Lubitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Aaron Spelling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leonard Goldberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Spelling-Goldberg Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | made-for-television film ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Douglas Day Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | suburban United States ⓘ |
| starring |
Diana Hyland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glynnis O'Connor NERFINISHED ⓘ John Travolta NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 1970s ⓘ |
| writer | Douglas Day Stewart 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 Boy in the Plastic Bubble Description of subject: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 made-for-television drama film starring John Travolta as a boy with a compromised immune system who must live in a sterile environment.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.