Boy
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Boy is a 2010 New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi that follows an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9739509 — 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: Boy Context triple: [Rachel House, notableWork, Boy]
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A.
Boy
"Boy" is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2, known for its youthful themes and introducing the band's distinctive post-punk sound.
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B.
Boy
Boy is a mysterious feral child with hidden powers who becomes a central companion and key figure in the animated series "Pacific Rim: The Black."
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C.
Boy
Boy is a minor but symbolically important messenger in Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot," whose brief appearances underscore the play’s themes of uncertainty and deferred hope.
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D.
Young Boy
"Young Boy" is a track by the hip-hop duo Clipse from their debut album "Lord Willin'."
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E.
Young Boy
"Young Boy" is a song featured on Paul McCartney’s 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
- 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: Boy Target entity description: Boy is a 2010 New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi that follows an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father.
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A.
Boy
"Boy" is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2, known for its youthful themes and introducing the band's distinctive post-punk sound.
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B.
Boy
Boy is a mysterious feral child with hidden powers who becomes a central companion and key figure in the animated series "Pacific Rim: The Black."
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C.
Boy
Boy is a minor but symbolically important messenger in Samuel Beckett’s play "Waiting for Godot," whose brief appearances underscore the play’s themes of uncertainty and deferred hope.
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D.
Young Boy
"Young Boy" is a track by the hip-hop duo Clipse from their debut album "Lord Willin'."
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E.
Young Boy
"Young Boy" is a song featured on Paul McCartney’s 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| award |
Audience Award at the Sydney Film Festival 2010
NERFINISHED
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Deutsche Filmkunstpreis (German Film Art Award) 2010 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Taika Waititi short film "Two Cars, One Night" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Adam Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classification | independent film ⓘ |
| countryBoxOfficeRecord | highest-grossing New Zealand film at its 2010 release ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| director | Taika Waititi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Transmission Films
NERFINISHED
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Unison Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Chris Plummer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Waihau Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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coming-of-age ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasDirectorRole | Taika Waititi as Alamein ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Māori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alamein
NERFINISHED
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Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | The Phoenix Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | Māori community life ⓘ |
| portraysEthnicGroup | Māori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiere | 2010 Sundance Film Festival ⓘ |
| producer |
Ainsley Gardiner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cliff Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clifford Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Whenua Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2010-01-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenedAt |
Berlin International Film Festival
NERFINISHED
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Melbourne International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Taika Waititi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
1984
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New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
James Rolleston
NERFINISHED
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Taika Waititi NERFINISHED ⓘ Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood
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father–son relationship ⓘ imagination ⓘ |
| writer | Taika Waititi 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: Boy Description of subject: Boy is a 2010 New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi that follows an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.