The Boy
E366049
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Boy canonical | 9 |
| The Boy (2016 film) | 1 |
| The Boy II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3519533 — 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 Boy Context triple: [STXfilms, notableFilm, The Boy]
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A.
The Girl
The Girl is a biographical drama film in which Sienna Miller portrays actress Tippi Hedren and explores Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessive relationship with his leading lady during the making of The Birds and Marnie.
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B.
The American Boy
The American Boy was a popular early 20th-century U.S. magazine for boys, featuring adventure stories, articles, and illustrations aimed at young male readers.
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C.
The Children
"The Children" is the climactic tenth episode of Game of Thrones season 4, featuring several major character confrontations and turning points that reshape the political and mystical landscape of Westeros.
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D.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
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E.
Dear Boy
"Dear Boy" is a song by the Indian musician Ram.
- 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 Boy Target entity description: The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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A.
The Girl
The Girl is a biographical drama film in which Sienna Miller portrays actress Tippi Hedren and explores Alfred Hitchcock’s obsessive relationship with his leading lady during the making of The Birds and Marnie.
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B.
The American Boy
The American Boy was a popular early 20th-century U.S. magazine for boys, featuring adventure stories, articles, and illustrations aimed at young male readers.
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C.
The Children
"The Children" is the climactic tenth episode of Game of Thrones season 4, featuring several major character confrontations and turning points that reshape the political and mystical landscape of Westeros.
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D.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
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E.
Dear Boy
"Dear Boy" is a song by the Indian musician Ram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Boy Description of subject: The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Boy II
this entity surface form:
The Boy (2016 film)