Brainstorm
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Brainstorm is a 1983 science fiction thriller film about experimental mind-recording technology, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brainstorm canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11341535 — 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: Brainstorm Context triple: [Louise Fletcher, notableWork, Brainstorm]
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A.
Brainstorm
"Brainstorm" is a lesser-known work by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, best known for his dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
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B.
Brainstorms
Brainstorms is a collection of essays by philosopher Daniel Dennett that explores consciousness, intentionality, and the philosophy of mind through a naturalistic, cognitive-science-informed lens.
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C.
Ideeën
Ideeën is a multi-volume collection of essays, sketches, and aphorisms by Dutch writer Multatuli, in which he sharply critiques social injustice, colonialism, and bourgeois hypocrisy.
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D.
Scamper
Scamper is the loyal golden spaniel dog who accompanies the children in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven adventure series.
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E.
Create
Create is a programmable mobile robot platform developed by iRobot, widely used for education, research, and hobbyist robotics projects.
- 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: Brainstorm Target entity description: Brainstorm is a 1983 science fiction thriller film about experimental mind-recording technology, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
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A.
Brainstorm
"Brainstorm" is a lesser-known work by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, best known for his dark, psychologically driven storytelling.
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B.
Brainstorms
Brainstorms is a collection of essays by philosopher Daniel Dennett that explores consciousness, intentionality, and the philosophy of mind through a naturalistic, cognitive-science-informed lens.
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C.
Ideeën
Ideeën is a multi-volume collection of essays, sketches, and aphorisms by Dutch writer Multatuli, in which he sharply critiques social injustice, colonialism, and bourgeois hypocrisy.
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D.
Scamper
Scamper is the loyal golden spaniel dog who accompanies the children in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven adventure series.
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E.
Create
Create is a programmable mobile robot platform developed by iRobot, widely used for education, research, and hobbyist robotics projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Richard Yuricich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | James Horner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Douglas Trumbull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
NERFINISHED
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editor |
Frederic Steinkamp
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Steinkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Karen Brace
NERFINISHED
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Lillian Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Brace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingEndedWith | death of Natalie Wood ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | widescreen sequences for recorded experiences ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| hasRating | PG ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
life after death
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mind-recording technology ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ |
| hasTagline | "The Ultimate Experience... is now a reality." ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Natalie Wood's final film role ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
ethical issues of recording human experiences
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military interest in experimental technology ⓘ |
| producer |
Douglas Trumbull
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joel L. Freedman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1983-09-30 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| setIn | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Christopher Walken
NERFINISHED
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Cliff Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Hotton NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordan Christopher NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalie Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Brainstorm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Bruce Joel Rubin 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: Brainstorm Description of subject: Brainstorm is a 1983 science fiction thriller film about experimental mind-recording technology, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.