Lone Pine Mall
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Lone Pine Mall is the fictional shopping center in the Back to the Future films where Marty McFly first encounters Doc Brown’s time-traveling DeLorean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lone Pine Mall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7940334 — 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: Lone Pine Mall Context triple: [Hill Valley, hasLandmark, Lone Pine Mall]
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A.
Limeridge Mall
Limeridge Mall is a major shopping centre in Hamilton, Ontario, featuring a wide range of retail stores, dining options, and services.
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B.
Eastwood Mall
Eastwood Mall is a major shopping and lifestyle center located within Eastwood City in Quezon City, Philippines, featuring retail stores, dining, and entertainment venues.
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C.
Twin Pines Mall
Twin Pines Mall is a fictional shopping center in the "Back to the Future" film series, serving as a key setting for Marty McFly's time-traveling adventures in Hill Valley.
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D.
Centerpoint Mall
Centerpoint Mall is a large enclosed shopping centre located at the boundary of Toronto’s North York district and the city of Vaughan, featuring a variety of retail stores, services, and dining options.
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E.
West Valley Mall
West Valley Mall is a regional shopping center located in Tracy, California, featuring a variety of retail stores, dining options, and entertainment venues.
- 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: Lone Pine Mall Target entity description: Lone Pine Mall is the fictional shopping center in the Back to the Future films where Marty McFly first encounters Doc Brown’s time-traveling DeLorean.
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A.
Limeridge Mall
Limeridge Mall is a major shopping centre in Hamilton, Ontario, featuring a wide range of retail stores, dining options, and services.
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B.
Eastwood Mall
Eastwood Mall is a major shopping and lifestyle center located within Eastwood City in Quezon City, Philippines, featuring retail stores, dining, and entertainment venues.
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C.
Twin Pines Mall
Twin Pines Mall is a fictional shopping center in the "Back to the Future" film series, serving as a key setting for Marty McFly's time-traveling adventures in Hill Valley.
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D.
Centerpoint Mall
Centerpoint Mall is a large enclosed shopping centre located at the boundary of Toronto’s North York district and the city of Vaughan, featuring a variety of retail stores, services, and dining options.
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E.
West Valley Mall
West Valley Mall is a regional shopping center located in Tracy, California, featuring a variety of retail stores, dining options, and entertainment venues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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fictional shopping mall ⓘ film setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Back to the Future
NERFINISHED
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Back to the Future film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
adventure film
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comedy film ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Emmett "Doc" Brown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jennifer Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ Libyan terrorists ⓘ Marty McFly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWork | DeLorean time machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Bob Gale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Zemeckis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diegeticTimePeriod | 1985 ⓘ |
| fictionalCounterpartOf | Twin Pines Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocationCity | City of Industry, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocationRealWorld | Puente Hills Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Back to the Future (1985 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchiseElementType | recurring location ⓘ |
| genreContext |
science fiction film
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time travel narrative ⓘ |
| hasSignageText | LONE PINE MALL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inUniverseFunction | regional shopping center ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hill Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nameChangeReasonInStory | destruction of one of Old Man Peabody’s twin pine trees ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Doc Brown tests the DeLorean time machine there
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Libyan terrorists confront Doc Brown in its parking lot ⓘ Marty McFly first witnesses time travel there ⓘ Marty McFly travels from 1985 to 1955 from its parking lot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Back to the Future franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousNameInStory | Twin Pines Mall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCountryOfWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingForSceneType |
parking lot chase
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time-travel experiment ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
altered timeline
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butterfly effect of small changes in the past ⓘ |
| usedAsPlotDeviceFor | showing consequences of time travel on the present ⓘ |
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: Lone Pine Mall Description of subject: Lone Pine Mall is the fictional shopping center in the Back to the Future films where Marty McFly first encounters Doc Brown’s time-traveling DeLorean.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.