The Lost Boys
E196170
The Lost Boys is a 1987 cult-classic horror-comedy film about teenage brothers who encounter a gang of vampires in a California beach town.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lost Boys canonical | 15 |
| Lost Boys: The Tribe | 2 |
| Lost Boys: The Thirst | 1 |
| The Lost Boys (TV miniseries) | 1 |
| The Lost Boys: The Thirst | 1 |
| The Lost Boys: The Tribe | 1 |
| the Lost Boys | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1755439 — 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 Lost Boys Context triple: [Dianne Wiest, notableWork, The Lost Boys]
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A.
Friend of the Devil
"Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
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B.
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 horror film about a remote Alaskan town besieged by vampires during a month-long polar night.
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C.
An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror-comedy film directed by John Landis, renowned for its groundbreaking practical werewolf transformation effects.
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D.
The Last Boy Scout
The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action-comedy film starring Bruce Willis as a down-on-his-luck private detective who teams up with a disgraced ex-football player to uncover a deadly conspiracy involving professional sports and political corruption.
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E.
Ann's Court
Ann's Court is a modern residential and teaching court within Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge.
- 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 Lost Boys Target entity description: The Lost Boys is a 1987 cult-classic horror-comedy film about teenage brothers who encounter a gang of vampires in a California beach town.
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A.
Friend of the Devil
"Friend of the Devil" is a folk-rock song by the Grateful Dead, known for its acoustic sound, storytelling lyrics, and enduring popularity in the band’s live performances.
-
B.
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 horror film about a remote Alaskan town besieged by vampires during a month-long polar night.
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C.
An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 horror-comedy film directed by John Landis, renowned for its groundbreaking practical werewolf transformation effects.
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D.
The Last Boy Scout
The Last Boy Scout is a 1991 action-comedy film starring Bruce Willis as a down-on-his-luck private detective who teams up with a disgraced ex-football player to uncover a deadly conspiracy involving professional sports and political corruption.
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E.
Ann's Court
Ann's Court is a modern residential and teaching court within Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Lost Boys Description of subject: The Lost Boys is a 1987 cult-classic horror-comedy film about teenage brothers who encounter a gang of vampires in a California beach town.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lost Boys: The Tribe
this entity surface form:
Lost Boys: The Thirst
this entity surface form:
The Lost Boys (TV miniseries)
this entity surface form:
the Lost Boys
this entity surface form:
The Lost Boys: The Thirst
this entity surface form:
The Lost Boys: The Tribe
this entity surface form:
Lost Boys: The Tribe