Theodore Rex
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Theodore Rex is a 1995 science-fiction buddy cop comedy film set in a futuristic world where a dinosaur detective teams up with a human cop to solve a series of crimes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theodore Rex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10287184 — 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: Theodore Rex Context triple: [Bud Cort, playedIn, Theodore Rex]
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A.
Ronald Roose
Ronald Roose is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction film "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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B.
Theodore
Theodore is a masculine given name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of God," from which the nickname Ted is derived.
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C.
Bush
Bush is a British post-grunge rock band that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with hits like "Glycerine" and "Machinehead."
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D.
Bush
Bush is a 2015 funk-influenced studio album by American rapper Snoop Dogg, produced primarily by Pharrell Williams.
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E.
Bush
Bush is an alternative name for Emerson House, a specific building or residence associated with the Emerson name.
- 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: Theodore Rex Target entity description: Theodore Rex is a 1995 science-fiction buddy cop comedy film set in a futuristic world where a dinosaur detective teams up with a human cop to solve a series of crimes.
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A.
Ronald Roose
Ronald Roose is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science fiction film "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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B.
Theodore
Theodore is a masculine given name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of God," from which the nickname Ted is derived.
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C.
Bush
Bush is an alternative name for Emerson House, a specific building or residence associated with the Emerson name.
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D.
Bush
Bush is a 2015 funk-influenced studio album by American rapper Snoop Dogg, produced primarily by Pharrell Williams.
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E.
Bush
Bush is a British post-grunge rock band that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with hits like "Glycerine" and "Machinehead."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jonathan Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jonathan Betuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New Line Cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editingBy | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Detective Katie Coltrane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Theodore Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | live-action ⓘ |
| genre |
buddy cop
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasMPAARating | PG ⓘ |
| hasSpeciesOfMainCharacter | dinosaur ⓘ |
| hasTagline | The world's toughest cop is getting a brand new partner. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
buddy cop dynamics
ⓘ
crime investigation ⓘ human-dinosaur partnership ⓘ |
| includesElement | animatronic dinosaur suit ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Whoopi Goldberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Detective Katie Coltrane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Theodore Rex the dinosaur detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Randy Edelman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFact | Originally intended for theatrical release but released direct-to-video in the United States. ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A dinosaur detective teams up with a human cop to solve a series of crimes in a futuristic world. ⓘ |
| producer |
Jonathan Betuel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Gilbert Abramson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | direct-to-video (United States) ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jonathan Betuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | futuristic city ⓘ |
| settingTime | near future ⓘ |
| starring |
Armin Mueller-Stahl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bud Cort NERFINISHED ⓘ George Newbern NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Roundtree NERFINISHED ⓘ Whoopi Goldberg 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: Theodore Rex Description of subject: Theodore Rex is a 1995 science-fiction buddy cop comedy film set in a futuristic world where a dinosaur detective teams up with a human cop to solve a series of crimes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.