The Absent-Minded Professor
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The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 Disney science-fiction comedy film about an eccentric inventor who creates a gravity-defying substance called "flubber."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Absent-Minded Professor canonical | 27 |
| The Absent-Minded Professor (1961 film) | 2 |
| The Absent-Minded Professor / Son of Flubber series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5326055 — 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 Absent-Minded Professor Context triple: [Leon Ames, notableWork, The Absent-Minded Professor]
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A.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 crime drama film starring Edward G. Robinson as a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a gang of jewel thieves to study criminal behavior.
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B.
The Professor
The Professor is the mastermind strategist and enigmatic leader who orchestrates the meticulously planned heists in the Spanish series "Money Heist."
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C.
The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor is a 1963 comedy film starring Jerry Lewis as a nerdy professor who transforms into a suave but obnoxious alter ego after drinking a special potion.
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D.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, widely regarded as one of the most infamous "so-bad-it's-good" cult movies in cinema history.
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E.
Podkayne of Mars
Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a Martian teenager’s adventurous journey through space and explores themes of gender roles, politics, and coming of age.
- 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 Absent-Minded Professor Target entity description: The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 Disney science-fiction comedy film about an eccentric inventor who creates a gravity-defying substance called "flubber."
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A.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 crime drama film starring Edward G. Robinson as a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a gang of jewel thieves to study criminal behavior.
-
B.
The Professor
The Professor is the mastermind strategist and enigmatic leader who orchestrates the meticulously planned heists in the Spanish series "Money Heist."
-
C.
The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor is a 1963 comedy film starring Jerry Lewis as a nerdy professor who transforms into a suave but obnoxious alter ego after drinking a special potion.
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D.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, widely regarded as one of the most infamous "so-bad-it's-good" cult movies in cinema history.
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E.
Podkayne of Mars
Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that follows a Martian teenager’s adventurous journey through space and explores themes of gender roles, politics, and coming of age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Absent-Minded Professor Description of subject: The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 Disney science-fiction comedy film about an eccentric inventor who creates a gravity-defying substance called "flubber."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Absent-Minded Professor
subject linked to:
Robert Stevenson (film director)
subject linked to:
Robert Stevenson (film director)
subject linked to:
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn
subject linked to:
Alonzo P. Hawk in The Absent-Minded Professor
subject linked to:
Alonzo P. Hawk in The Absent-Minded Professor
subject linked to:
Alonzo P. Hawk in Son of Flubber
subject linked to:
Alonzo P. Hawk in Son of Flubber
subject linked to:
Alonzo P. Hawk in Son of Flubber
linked to: The Absent-Minded Professor
subject linked to:
Wynn family
linked to: The Absent-Minded Professor