Jumanji (1981 book)
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Jumanji (1981 book) is a children's fantasy picture book by Chris Van Allsburg about a magical board game that brings jungle dangers into the real world.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jumanji | 3 |
| Jumanji (1981 book) canonical | 3 |
| Jumanji (children's book) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3287267 — 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: Jumanji (1981 book) Context triple: [Jumanji franchise, basedOn, Jumanji (1981 book)]
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A.
Jumanji franchise
The Jumanji franchise is a series of fantasy adventure stories spanning books and films in which characters are drawn into dangerous, magically animated games that transform their reality.
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B.
Jumanji: The Next Level
Jumanji: The Next Level is a 2019 action-adventure comedy film and sequel in the Jumanji franchise, in which a group of friends are once again drawn into a dangerous video game world with new challenges and avatars.
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C.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 action-adventure comedy film that reimagines the classic Jumanji concept as a video game, featuring a group of teenagers transported into avatar bodies played by actors including Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan.
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D.
The Lost Jungle
The Lost Jungle is a 1934 adventure film serial set in a perilous, exotic jungle, directed by Ford Beebe and known for its action-packed, cliffhanger-driven storyline.
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E.
The Men in the Jungle
The Men in the Jungle is a dark, politically charged science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that explores revolution, violence, and moral decay on a distant alien world.
- 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: Jumanji (1981 book) Target entity description: Jumanji (1981 book) is a children's fantasy picture book by Chris Van Allsburg about a magical board game that brings jungle dangers into the real world.
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A.
Jumanji franchise
The Jumanji franchise is a series of fantasy adventure stories spanning books and films in which characters are drawn into dangerous, magically animated games that transform their reality.
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B.
Jumanji: The Next Level
Jumanji: The Next Level is a 2019 action-adventure comedy film and sequel in the Jumanji franchise, in which a group of friends are once again drawn into a dangerous video game world with new challenges and avatars.
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C.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 action-adventure comedy film that reimagines the classic Jumanji concept as a video game, featuring a group of teenagers transported into avatar bodies played by actors including Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan.
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D.
The Lost Jungle
The Lost Jungle is a 1934 adventure film serial set in a perilous, exotic jungle, directed by Ford Beebe and known for its action-packed, cliffhanger-driven storyline.
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E.
The Men in the Jungle
The Men in the Jungle is a dark, politically charged science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that explores revolution, violence, and moral decay on a distant alien world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American book
ⓘ
children's picture book ⓘ fantasy book ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Jumanji (1995 film)
ⓘ
Jumanji (board game) ⓘ |
| author | Chris Van Allsburg ⓘ |
| awarded | Caldecott Medal ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| centralObject | magical board game ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverArtist | Chris Van Allsburg ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy ⓘ picture book ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ |
| hasIllustrator | Chris Van Allsburg ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780395304481 ⓘ |
| hasMoral | games must be finished to set things right ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Zathura board game
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surface form:
Zathura
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| hasTheme |
blurring of fantasy and reality
ⓘ
consequences of play ⓘ imagination ⓘ |
| illustrationStyle | realistic black-and-white drawings ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOfCongressClassification | PZ7.V266 Ju 1981 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Judy
ⓘ
Peter ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a game that alters reality
ⓘ
word-image interplay ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | 32 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Jumanji franchise
ⓘ
surface form:
Jumanji universe
|
| plotSummary | Two children play a magical board game that brings jungle dangers into the real world until the game is finished. ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setting | American suburb ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Jumanji (1981 book) Description of subject: Jumanji (1981 book) is a children's fantasy picture book by Chris Van Allsburg about a magical board game that brings jungle dangers into the real world.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jumanji (1995 film)
this entity surface form:
Jumanji
this entity surface form:
Jumanji
this entity surface form:
Jumanji (children's book)
this entity surface form:
Jumanji
this entity surface form:
Jumanji (children's book)