It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958 film)
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 American science fiction horror film about a deadly alien creature stalking the crew of a spaceship returning from Mars, often cited as a precursor to later films like Alien.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9152184 — 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: It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958 film) Context triple: [Edward Small Productions, notableWork, It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958 film)]
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A.
It Came from Outer Space
It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction film about an alien spacecraft crash-landing in the Arizona desert, noted for its early use of 3D and its sympathetic portrayal of extraterrestrials.
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B.
Them!
Them! is a 1954 science fiction horror film about giant, irradiated ants that became a classic of the atomic-age monster movie genre.
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C.
Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
Invaders from Mars (1953 film) is a 1950s American science fiction movie about a young boy who witnesses a flying saucer landing and discovers that the adults around him are being taken over by sinister alien forces.
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D.
The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
The War of the Worlds (1953 film) is a landmark science fiction movie that reimagines H.G. Wells's alien invasion novel with Cold War-era anxieties and groundbreaking special effects.
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E.
Quatermass and the Pit (film)
Quatermass and the Pit is a 1967 British science fiction horror film, based on Nigel Kneale’s TV serial, that blends alien invasion themes with psychological terror beneath the London Underground.
- 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: It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958 film) Target entity description: It! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 American science fiction horror film about a deadly alien creature stalking the crew of a spaceship returning from Mars, often cited as a precursor to later films like Alien.
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A.
It Came from Outer Space
It Came from Outer Space is a 1953 American science fiction film about an alien spacecraft crash-landing in the Arizona desert, noted for its early use of 3D and its sympathetic portrayal of extraterrestrials.
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B.
Them!
Them! is a 1954 science fiction horror film about giant, irradiated ants that became a classic of the atomic-age monster movie genre.
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C.
Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
Invaders from Mars (1953 film) is a 1950s American science fiction movie about a young boy who witnesses a flying saucer landing and discovers that the adults around him are being taken over by sinister alien forces.
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D.
The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
The War of the Worlds (1953 film) is a landmark science fiction movie that reimagines H.G. Wells's alien invasion novel with Cold War-era anxieties and groundbreaking special effects.
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E.
Quatermass and the Pit (film)
Quatermass and the Pit is a 1967 British science fiction horror film, based on Nigel Kneale’s TV serial, that blends alien invasion themes with psychological terror beneath the London Underground.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Ann Doran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dabbs Greer NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Spalding NERFINISHED ⓘ Marshall Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Langton NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Corrigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Benedict NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawn Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Thom Carney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Kenneth Peach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Edward L. Cahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Grant Whytock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
hostile alien life
ⓘ
isolation in space ⓘ paranoia among crew members ⓘ |
| influenced | Alien (1979 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| leadActor | Marshall Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| monsterType | extraterrestrial creature ⓘ |
| musicBy | Paul Sawtell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | survival horror aboard a spacecraft ⓘ |
| notableFor | being cited as a precursor to Alien ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A deadly alien creature stalks the crew of a spaceship returning from Mars. ⓘ |
| producer | Robert E. Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 69 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jerome Bixby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Mars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
spacecraft ⓘ |
| storyBy | Jerome Bixby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | set in the future ⓘ |
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: It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958 film) Description of subject: It! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 American science fiction horror film about a deadly alien creature stalking the crew of a spaceship returning from Mars, often cited as a precursor to later films like Alien.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.