Invaders from Mars (1986 film)
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Invaders from Mars (1986 film) is a science fiction horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper that reimagines the 1953 alien invasion story with updated special effects and a more intense, surreal tone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Invaders from Mars (1986 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4484284 — 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: Invaders from Mars (1986 film) Context triple: [Invaders from Mars (1953 film), hasRemake, Invaders from Mars (1986 film)]
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Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
Invaders from Mars (1953 film) is a 1950s American science fiction movie about a young boy who witnesses a flying saucer landing and discovers that the adults around him are being taken over by sinister alien forces.
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B.
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks! is a 1996 science fiction comedy film directed by Tim Burton that parodies alien invasion movies with an ensemble cast and over-the-top, campy humor.
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C.
The Invaders
"The Invaders" is a renowned, nearly dialogue-free episode of the original The Twilight Zone series, in which a solitary woman in a remote farmhouse is terrorized by tiny, mysterious invaders.
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D.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) is a critically acclaimed science-fiction horror remake about an alien pod invasion that subtly replaces humans with emotionless duplicates, noted for its paranoid atmosphere and enduring cultural impact.
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E.
Invaders
The Invaders are a World War II-era superhero team in Marvel Comics, featuring characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and Namor fighting Axis forces.
- 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: Invaders from Mars (1986 film) Target entity description: Invaders from Mars (1986 film) is a science fiction horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper that reimagines the 1953 alien invasion story with updated special effects and a more intense, surreal tone.
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A.
Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
Invaders from Mars (1953 film) is a 1950s American science fiction movie about a young boy who witnesses a flying saucer landing and discovers that the adults around him are being taken over by sinister alien forces.
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B.
Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks! is a 1996 science fiction comedy film directed by Tim Burton that parodies alien invasion movies with an ensemble cast and over-the-top, campy humor.
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C.
The Invaders
"The Invaders" is a renowned, nearly dialogue-free episode of the original The Twilight Zone series, in which a solitary woman in a remote farmhouse is terrorized by tiny, mysterious invaders.
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D.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) is a critically acclaimed science-fiction horror remake about an alien pod invasion that subtly replaces humans with emotionless duplicates, noted for its paranoid atmosphere and enduring cultural impact.
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E.
Invaders
The Invaders are a World War II-era superhero team in Marvel Comics, featuring characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and Namor fighting Axis forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Invaders from Mars (1953 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bud Cort
NERFINISHED
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Hunter Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ James Karen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Hunt NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Laraine Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Bottoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Daniel Pearl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Tobe Hooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Cannon Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Alain Jakubowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
David Gardner
NERFINISHED
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Ellen Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ General Climet Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ George Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Magnusson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | original 1953 Invaders from Mars story ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
child’s perspective on invasion
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paranoia ⓘ |
| isRemakeOf | Invaders from Mars (1953 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | David Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Christopher Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980s science fiction horror films ⓘ |
| plotKeyword |
alien invasion
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military response ⓘ mind control ⓘ |
| producer |
Menahem Golan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yoram Globus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cannon Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-06-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Dan O’Bannon
NERFINISHED
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Don Jakoby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| setting | small American town ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
special effects–driven
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surreal ⓘ |
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: Invaders from Mars (1986 film) Description of subject: Invaders from Mars (1986 film) is a science fiction horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper that reimagines the 1953 alien invasion story with updated special effects and a more intense, surreal tone.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.