ShadowMachine
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ShadowMachine is an American animation and production studio known for its work on acclaimed stop-motion and adult animated projects.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ShadowMachine canonical | 11 |
| Shadow Machine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1747604 — 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: ShadowMachine Context triple: [Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, productionCompany, ShadowMachine]
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A.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
Mimics
Mimics are a highly adaptive alien species from the science fiction story "Edge of Tomorrow" (and its source novel "All You Need Is Kill") known for their time-resetting ability and relentless war against humanity.
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D.
Looper
Looper is a 2012 science-fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson, known for its time-travel premise and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis.
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E.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
- 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: ShadowMachine Target entity description: ShadowMachine is an American animation and production studio known for its work on acclaimed stop-motion and adult animated projects.
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A.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
Mimics
Mimics are a highly adaptive alien species from the science fiction story "Edge of Tomorrow" (and its source novel "All You Need Is Kill") known for their time-resetting ability and relentless war against humanity.
-
D.
Looper
Looper is a 2012 science-fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson, known for its time-travel premise and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis.
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E.
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror-comedy film written and directed by Stephen King, in which machines suddenly become homicidal and terrorize a group of people trapped at a truck stop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animation studio
ⓘ
television production company ⓘ |
| animationTechnique |
2D animation
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CGI ⓘ stop-motion ⓘ |
| awardRecognitionFor |
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
ⓘ
linked to:
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Robot Chicken ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Adult Swim
ⓘ
Comedy Central ⓘ Fox ⓘ Hulu ⓘ Netflix ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasProductionType |
feature film
ⓘ
short film ⓘ television series ⓘ web series ⓘ |
| industry |
animation
ⓘ
film production ⓘ television production ⓘ |
| knownForWorkOn |
BoJack Horseman
ⓘ
Crossing Swords ⓘ Final Space ⓘ Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio ⓘ
linked to:
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole ⓘ Moral Orel ⓘ Robot Chicken ⓘ The Awesomes ⓘ The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy ⓘ The Shivering Truth ⓘ TripTank ⓘ Tuca & Bertie ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adult animation
ⓘ
stop-motion animation ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
adults
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
| typicalGenre |
adult animation
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ satire ⓘ |
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: ShadowMachine Description of subject: ShadowMachine is an American animation and production studio known for its work on acclaimed stop-motion and adult animated projects.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ShadowMachine