The Golden Compass
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The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel "Northern Lights," set in a parallel universe where a young girl embarks on a perilous journey involving armored bears, witches, and a mysterious substance called Dust.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Golden Compass canonical | 18 |
| The Golden Compass (film) | 6 |
| The Golden Compass (2007 film) | 2 |
| The Golden Compass (US title of Northern Lights) | 2 |
| The Golden Compass (novel) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2864929 — 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 Golden Compass Context triple: [Chris Weitz, notableWork, The Golden Compass]
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A.
His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a fantasy television series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel trilogy, featuring parallel worlds, daemons, and a young heroine’s journey against a powerful theocratic authority.
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B.
L’enfant et les sortilèges
L’enfant et les sortilèges is a one-act French lyric fantasy opera with a libretto by Colette, known for its imaginative portrayal of a child’s dreamlike encounters with animated objects and animals.
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C.
The Magic
The Magic is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that expands on the themes of The Secret by focusing on the transformative power of gratitude.
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D.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, about a man who can bring characters from books to life by reading aloud.
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E.
Neverwhere
Neverwhere is a dark urban fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that explores a hidden, magical underworld beneath the streets of London.
- 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 Golden Compass Target entity description: The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel "Northern Lights," set in a parallel universe where a young girl embarks on a perilous journey involving armored bears, witches, and a mysterious substance called Dust.
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A.
His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials is a fantasy television series adaptation of Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel trilogy, featuring parallel worlds, daemons, and a young heroine’s journey against a powerful theocratic authority.
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B.
L’enfant et les sortilèges
L’enfant et les sortilèges is a one-act French lyric fantasy opera with a libretto by Colette, known for its imaginative portrayal of a child’s dreamlike encounters with animated objects and animals.
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C.
The Magic
The Magic is a self-help book by Rhonda Byrne that expands on the themes of The Secret by focusing on the transformative power of gratitude.
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D.
Inkheart
Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film, based on Cornelia Funke’s novel, about a man who can bring characters from books to life by reading aloud.
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E.
Neverwhere
Neverwhere is a dark urban fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman that explores a hidden, magical underworld beneath the streets of London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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 Golden Compass Description of subject: The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel "Northern Lights," set in a parallel universe where a young girl embarks on a perilous journey involving armored bears, witches, and a mysterious substance called Dust.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ma Costa
subject surface form:
Ma Costa
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (film)
subject surface form:
Chris Weitz
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (film)
subject surface form:
Tom Courtenay
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (film)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (US title of Northern Lights)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (film)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (film)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (US title of Northern Lights)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (2007 film)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (film)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Golden Compass (2007 film)