Howard the Duck
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Howard the Duck is a 1986 live-action comedy film based on the Marvel Comics character, known for its bizarre premise, cult following, and reputation as one of the most infamous box-office failures of the 1980s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard the Duck canonical | 12 |
| Howard the Duck (1986 film) | 1 |
| Howard the Duck (Marvel Comics series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7765338 — 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)
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Target entity: Howard the Duck Context triple: [Tak Fujimoto, notableWork, Howard the Duck]
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A.
Darkwing Duck
Darkwing Duck is a comedic superhero duck from the Disney animated series of the same name, known for his crime-fighting antics and parody of classic caped crusaders.
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B.
Attila the Duck
Attila the Duck is the costumed duck mascot representing Stevens Institute of Technology at its athletic events and school functions.
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C.
Duckburg Chronicle
The Duckburg Chronicle is the primary fictional newspaper serving as the main news outlet in Disney's Duckburg universe.
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D.
Polka-Dot Man
Polka-Dot Man is a lesser-known, visually distinctive DC Comics supervillain-turned-antihero who gains bizarre powers from the multicolored dots on his costume.
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E.
Lord Love a Duck
Lord Love a Duck is a 1966 dark teen comedy film satirizing high school culture and materialism, written and directed by George Axelrod and starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld.
- 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: Howard the Duck Target entity description: Howard the Duck is a 1986 live-action comedy film based on the Marvel Comics character, known for its bizarre premise, cult following, and reputation as one of the most infamous box-office failures of the 1980s.
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A.
Darkwing Duck
Darkwing Duck is a comedic superhero duck from the Disney animated series of the same name, known for his crime-fighting antics and parody of classic caped crusaders.
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B.
Attila the Duck
Attila the Duck is the costumed duck mascot representing Stevens Institute of Technology at its athletic events and school functions.
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C.
Duckburg Chronicle
The Duckburg Chronicle is the primary fictional newspaper serving as the main news outlet in Disney's Duckburg universe.
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D.
Polka-Dot Man
Polka-Dot Man is a lesser-known, visually distinctive DC Comics supervillain-turned-antihero who gains bizarre powers from the multicolored dots on his costume.
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E.
Lord Love a Duck
Lord Love a Duck is a 1966 dark teen comedy film satirizing high school culture and materialism, written and directed by George Axelrod and starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Howard the Duck (Marvel Comics character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercial failure ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Richard H. Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally negative reviews ⓘ |
| decade | 1980s films ⓘ |
| director | Willard Huyuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Michael Chandler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sidney Wolinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | George Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features | animatronic title character ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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comedy film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ superhero film ⓘ |
| hasCultStatus | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Howard the Duck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bizarre premise
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box-office failure ⓘ cult following ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Marvel Comics film adaptations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Chip Zien as Howard the Duck (voice)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ed Gale as Howard the Duck (in-suit performer) ⓘ Jeffrey Jones as Dr. Walter Jenning ⓘ Lea Thompson as Beverly Switzler ⓘ Tim Robbins as Phil Blumburtt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Gloria Katz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Lucasfilm
NERFINISHED
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Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| rating | PG ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-08-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| runtime | 110 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gloria Katz
NERFINISHED
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Willard Huyuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Cleveland, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Chip Zien
NERFINISHED
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Ed Gale NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Lea Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visualEffectsBy | Industrial Light & Magic 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: Howard the Duck Description of subject: Howard the Duck is a 1986 live-action comedy film based on the Marvel Comics character, known for its bizarre premise, cult following, and reputation as one of the most infamous box-office failures of the 1980s.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Howard the Duck (Marvel Comics series)
this entity surface form:
Howard the Duck (1986 film)