The Invisible Boy
E1045101
The Invisible Boy is a 1957 science fiction film best known for featuring the robot Robby from "Forbidden Planet" and starring child actor Richard Eyer as a boy who becomes invisible through a supercomputer experiment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Invisible Boy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13499571 — 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: The Invisible Boy Context triple: [Richard Eyer, notableWork, The Invisible Boy]
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A.
The Invisible
The Invisible is a 2007 supernatural thriller film about a teenager who, after being brutally attacked, exists in a ghost-like state and must solve his own attempted murder before his body dies.
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B.
The Invisible Girl
The Invisible Girl is the superhero identity of Sue Storm, a founding member of Marvel’s Fantastic Four who can turn invisible and generate powerful force fields.
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C.
A Strange Boy
"A Strange Boy" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced sound.
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D.
The Lost Boy
The Lost Boy is a two-part story from the British science fiction series The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring Luke Smith as he confronts a mysterious organization and shocking revelations about his origins.
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E.
The Lost Boy
The Lost Boy is the critically acclaimed 2019 debut studio album by American rapper YBN Cordae, showcasing his lyrical skill and introspective storytelling.
- 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: The Invisible Boy Target entity description: The Invisible Boy is a 1957 science fiction film best known for featuring the robot Robby from "Forbidden Planet" and starring child actor Richard Eyer as a boy who becomes invisible through a supercomputer experiment.
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A.
The Invisible
The Invisible is a 2007 supernatural thriller film about a teenager who, after being brutally attacked, exists in a ghost-like state and must solve his own attempted murder before his body dies.
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B.
The Invisible Girl
The Invisible Girl is the superhero identity of Sue Storm, a founding member of Marvel’s Fantastic Four who can turn invisible and generate powerful force fields.
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C.
A Strange Boy
"A Strange Boy" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced sound.
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D.
The Lost Boy
The Lost Boy is the critically acclaimed 2019 debut studio album by American rapper YBN Cordae, showcasing his lyrical skill and introspective storytelling.
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E.
The Lost Boy
The Lost Boy is a two-part story from the British science fiction series The Sarah Jane Adventures, featuring Luke Smith as he confronts a mysterious organization and shocking revelations about his origins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Diane Brewster
NERFINISHED
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Harold J. Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Abbott NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Eyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Robby the Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harold Lipstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Herman Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Boemler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature | Robby the Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Robby the Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Forbidden Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
children's film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Les Baxter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young boy becomes invisible after an experiment involving a supercomputer and a robot goes wrong. ⓘ |
| producer | Nicholas Nayfack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1957-10-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| stars | Richard Eyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Invisible Boy 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: The Invisible Boy Description of subject: The Invisible Boy is a 1957 science fiction film best known for featuring the robot Robby from "Forbidden Planet" and starring child actor Richard Eyer as a boy who becomes invisible through a supercomputer experiment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.