Hero Boy
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Hero Boy is the young protagonist of the 2020 dark fantasy film "The Witches," who encounters a secret society of child-hating witches while staying at a hotel with his grandmother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hero Boy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6162209 — 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: Hero Boy Context triple: [The Witches (2020 film), character, Hero Boy]
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A.
Hero Boy
Hero Boy is the unnamed young protagonist of the animated Christmas film "The Polar Express," who embarks on a magical train journey that restores his belief in Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas.
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B.
Hero Brown
Hero Brown is a central character in the comic book series "Y: The Last Man," known as Yorick Brown’s sister whose complex personal journey explores themes of identity, loyalty, and survival in a post-apocalyptic world without men.
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C.
Wonder Man
Wonder Man is a Marvel Comics superhero, also known as Simon Williams, who possesses ionic energy-based powers and has been both an ally and occasional adversary of the Avengers.
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D.
Hydro-Man
Hydro-Man is a Marvel Comics supervillain and enemy of Spider-Man who can transform his body into water and manipulate it for powerful attacks.
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E.
The Boy Wonder
The Boy Wonder was the famous nickname of Irving Thalberg, the legendary early Hollywood film producer renowned for his youthful genius and transformative impact on MGM and the studio system.
- 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: Hero Boy Target entity description: Hero Boy is the young protagonist of the 2020 dark fantasy film "The Witches," who encounters a secret society of child-hating witches while staying at a hotel with his grandmother.
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A.
Hero Boy
Hero Boy is the unnamed young protagonist of the animated Christmas film "The Polar Express," who embarks on a magical train journey that restores his belief in Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas.
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B.
Hero Brown
Hero Brown is a central character in the comic book series "Y: The Last Man," known as Yorick Brown’s sister whose complex personal journey explores themes of identity, loyalty, and survival in a post-apocalyptic world without men.
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C.
Wonder Man
Wonder Man is a Marvel Comics superhero, also known as Simon Williams, who possesses ionic energy-based powers and has been both an ally and occasional adversary of the Avengers.
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D.
Hydro-Man
Hydro-Man is a Marvel Comics supervillain and enemy of Spider-Man who can transform his body into water and manipulate it for powerful attacks.
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E.
The Boy Wonder
The Boy Wonder was the famous nickname of Irving Thalberg, the legendary early Hollywood film producer renowned for his youthful genius and transformative impact on MGM and the studio system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptedForScreenBy |
Guillermo del Toro
ⓘ
Kenya Barris ⓘ Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| alliesWith |
Bruno Jenkins
ⓘ
Grandmother ⓘ Mary (a transformed girl mouse) ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Witches (2020 film) ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
comedy film
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dark fantasy film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| backstory | orphaned and raised by his grandmother ⓘ |
| basedOn | unnamed boy in Roald Dahl's novel "The Witches" ⓘ |
| createdBy | Roald Dahl ⓘ |
| encounters | secret society of witches ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Grand High Witch ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Warner Bros. Pictures production ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Witches (2020 film) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
brave
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curious ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| hasGuardian | Grandmother ⓘ |
| hasPetForm | mouse ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Grandmother ⓘ |
| helps | foil the witches' plot ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesWith | Grandmother (after parents' death) ⓘ |
| narratedBy |
older Hero Boy (voice-over)
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linked to:
Hero Boy
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| opposes | plan to turn children into mice ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jahzir Bruno ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | late 1960s Alabama ⓘ |
| species | human (initially) ⓘ |
| staysAt | hotel in Alabama ⓘ |
| targetedBy | child-hating witches ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | Grand High Witch ⓘ |
| transformedInto | mouse ⓘ |
| voiceProvidedBy |
Chris Rock (older version)
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linked to:
Chris Rock
|
| worksWith | Grandmother to defeat witches ⓘ |
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: Hero Boy Description of subject: Hero Boy is the young protagonist of the 2020 dark fantasy film "The Witches," who encounters a secret society of child-hating witches while staying at a hotel with his grandmother.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.