Treasure Island (1990 TV film)
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Treasure Island (1990 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate adventure novel, featuring an ensemble cast in a family-oriented retelling of Jim Hawkins’ quest for buried treasure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Treasure Island (1990 TV film) canonical | 1 |
| Treasure Island (1990 film) | 1 |
| Treasure Island (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10877121 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treasure Island (1990 TV film) Context triple: [Shirley Henderson, notableWork, Treasure Island (1990 TV film)]
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Treasure Island (1972 film)
Treasure Island (1972 film) is a British adventure movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel, produced by Harry Alan Towers.
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B.
Treasure Island (1950 film)
Treasure Island (1950 film) is a classic Walt Disney adventure movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, following young Jim Hawkins on a perilous quest for pirate treasure.
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C.
Treasure Island (1934 film)
Treasure Island (1934 film) is a classic adventure movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, following young Jim Hawkins on a perilous quest for pirate treasure.
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D.
Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd was a 17th-century Scottish sea captain whose controversial career as a privateer-turned-alleged pirate led to his famous trial and execution in London.
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E.
Five on a Treasure Island
Five on a Treasure Island is the inaugural adventure novel in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series, introducing the group of children and their dog as they uncover hidden treasure on a coastal island.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treasure Island (1990 TV film) Target entity description: Treasure Island (1990 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate adventure novel, featuring an ensemble cast in a family-oriented retelling of Jim Hawkins’ quest for buried treasure.
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A.
Treasure Island (1972 film)
Treasure Island (1972 film) is a British adventure movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel, produced by Harry Alan Towers.
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B.
Treasure Island (1950 film)
Treasure Island (1950 film) is a classic Walt Disney adventure movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, following young Jim Hawkins on a perilous quest for pirate treasure.
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C.
Treasure Island (1934 film)
Treasure Island (1934 film) is a classic adventure movie adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, following young Jim Hawkins on a perilous quest for pirate treasure.
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D.
Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd was a 17th-century Scottish sea captain whose controversial career as a privateer-turned-alleged pirate led to his famous trial and execution in London.
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E.
Five on a Treasure Island
Five on a Treasure Island is the inaugural adventure novel in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series, introducing the group of children and their dog as they uncover hidden treasure on a coastal island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television film
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television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | classic pirate adventure novel ⓘ |
| basedOn | Treasure Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Charlton Heston as Long John Silver
NERFINISHED
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Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins ⓘ Christopher Lee as Blind Pew NERFINISHED ⓘ Clive Wood as Captain Smollett NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Glover as Dr. Livesey NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Amer as Ben Gunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Reed as Billy Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Postlethwaite as George Merry NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Johnson as Squire Trelawney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Tony Imi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Chris Boardman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Fraser C. Heston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Turner Network Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Terry Blythe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Cornwall
NERFINISHED
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Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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family film ⓘ pirate film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Captain Smollett
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Livesey NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Hawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Long John Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ Squire Trelawney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Jim Hawkins’ quest for buried treasure ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalReleaseFormat | television ⓘ |
| producer | Fraser C. Heston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
HTV
NERFINISHED
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Turner Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 131 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Fraser C. Heston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Charlton Heston
NERFINISHED
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Christian Bale NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Clive Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Glover NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Amer NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Postlethwaite NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
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: Treasure Island (1990 TV film) Description of subject: Treasure Island (1990 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate adventure novel, featuring an ensemble cast in a family-oriented retelling of Jim Hawkins’ quest for buried treasure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Treasure Island (1990 film)
this entity surface form:
Treasure Island (TV series)