Explorers
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Explorers is a 1985 science fiction adventure film about three young boys who build a homemade spacecraft and embark on an interstellar journey, featuring an early starring role by River Phoenix.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Explorers canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8639665 — 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: Explorers Context triple: [River Phoenix, notableWork, Explorers]
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A.
Explorers
Explorers is the nickname for the men's basketball team representing La Salle University in NCAA Division I competition.
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B.
The Explorers
"The Explorers" is a poem by Walt Whitman that Ralph Vaughan Williams set in the final movement of his choral-orchestral work *A Sea Symphony*, evoking themes of seafaring, discovery, and the human spirit’s quest for the unknown.
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C.
Man the Explorer
Man the Explorer was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on humanity’s drive to discover and understand the world and beyond.
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D.
the Explorer
The Explorer is the central outsider protagonist in Franz Kafka's short story "In the Penal Colony," whose observations and moral unease frame the narrative's critique of a brutal execution device and the justice system that employs it.
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E.
Explorations
Explorations is a 1961 jazz album by pianist Bill Evans, acclaimed for its lyrical trio interplay and introspective, harmonically rich interpretations of standards.
- 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: Explorers Target entity description: Explorers is a 1985 science fiction adventure film about three young boys who build a homemade spacecraft and embark on an interstellar journey, featuring an early starring role by River Phoenix.
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A.
Explorers
Explorers is the nickname for the men's basketball team representing La Salle University in NCAA Division I competition.
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B.
The Explorers
"The Explorers" is a poem by Walt Whitman that Ralph Vaughan Williams set in the final movement of his choral-orchestral work *A Sea Symphony*, evoking themes of seafaring, discovery, and the human spirit’s quest for the unknown.
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C.
Man the Explorer
Man the Explorer was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on humanity’s drive to discover and understand the world and beyond.
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D.
the Explorer
The Explorer is the central outsider protagonist in Franz Kafka's short story "In the Penal Colony," whose observations and moral unease frame the narrative's critique of a brutal execution device and the justice system that employs it.
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E.
Explorations
Explorations is a 1961 jazz album by pianist Bill Evans, acclaimed for its lyrical trio interplay and introspective, harmonically rich interpretations of standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Hora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Joe Dante NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tina Hirsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresEarlyRoleFor |
Ethan Hawke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
River Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live action ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
ⓘ
family film ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
childhood imagination
ⓘ
first contact with extraterrestrial life ⓘ friendship ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ben Crandall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darren Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolfgang Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depicting children constructing a homemade spacecraft
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early starring role by Ethan Hawke ⓘ early starring role by River Phoenix ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Three young boys build a homemade spacecraft and embark on an interstellar journey after receiving mysterious dreams of a circuit board. ⓘ |
| producer | Edward S. Feldman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ratingSystem |
MPAA film rating system
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surface form:
MPAA
|
| releaseDate | 1985-07-12 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 109 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Eric Luke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| specialEffectsBy | Industrial Light & Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Amanda Peterson
NERFINISHED
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Bobby Fite NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethan Hawke NERFINISHED ⓘ James Cromwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Presson NERFINISHED ⓘ River Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1980s ⓘ |
| writer | Eric Luke 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: Explorers Description of subject: Explorers is a 1985 science fiction adventure film about three young boys who build a homemade spacecraft and embark on an interstellar journey, featuring an early starring role by River Phoenix.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.