Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater
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Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater is a 1971 science fiction thriller novel about a man-made organism that causes plastic to disintegrate, leading to catastrophic consequences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater canonical | 2 |
| Mutant | 1 |
| Mutant 59 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4818932 — 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: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater Context triple: [Kit Pedler, notableWork, Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater]
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A.
New Mutants
New Mutants is a Marvel Comics superhero team of young mutant students originally trained by the X-Men to become the next generation of mutant heroes.
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B.
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. is an adult animated comedy series based on the Marvel Comics villain M.O.D.O.K., following his misadventures as a struggling supervillain, corporate employee, and family man.
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C.
The Iron Monster
"The Iron Monster" is an episode title from the 1939 science-fiction movie serial *The Phantom Creeps*, which starred Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist.
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D.
The Mangler
The Mangler is a horror short story by Stephen King about a possessed industrial laundry machine that becomes the source of gruesome deaths.
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E.
MUTO
MUTO is a giant parasitic kaiju species in the 2014 film "Godzilla," known for feeding on nuclear material and serving as one of Godzilla’s primary adversaries.
- 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: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater Target entity description: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater is a 1971 science fiction thriller novel about a man-made organism that causes plastic to disintegrate, leading to catastrophic consequences.
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A.
New Mutants
New Mutants is a Marvel Comics superhero team of young mutant students originally trained by the X-Men to become the next generation of mutant heroes.
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B.
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.
Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. is an adult animated comedy series based on the Marvel Comics villain M.O.D.O.K., following his misadventures as a struggling supervillain, corporate employee, and family man.
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C.
The Iron Monster
"The Iron Monster" is an episode title from the 1939 science-fiction movie serial *The Phantom Creeps*, which starred Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist.
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D.
The Mangler
The Mangler is a horror short story by Stephen King about a possessed industrial laundry machine that becomes the source of gruesome deaths.
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E.
MUTO
MUTO is a giant parasitic kaiju species in the 2014 film "Godzilla," known for feeding on nuclear material and serving as one of Godzilla’s primary adversaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| author |
Gerry Davis
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Kit Pedler ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Doomwatch (TV series)
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linked to:
Doomwatch
|
| centralTheme |
dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation
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dependence on synthetic materials ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasForm | novel ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
biological hazards
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environmental disaster ⓘ genetic engineering ⓘ man-made organism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist |
Mutant 59
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linked to:
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater
|
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man-made organism mutates into a plastic-eating entity that causes plastics to disintegrate, threatening modern civilization. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| publisher | Pan Books ⓘ |
| setting |
London
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linked to:
London, England
|
| title | Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater ⓘ |
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: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater Description of subject: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater is a 1971 science fiction thriller novel about a man-made organism that causes plastic to disintegrate, leading to catastrophic consequences.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater
linked to: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater