The Discovery
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The Discovery is a 2017 science fiction romantic drama film exploring the consequences of scientifically proving the existence of an afterlife.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Discovery canonical | 3 |
| The Discovery (feature film) | 1 |
| The Discovery (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8091163 — 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 Discovery Context triple: [Neal Dodson, notableWork, The Discovery]
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A.
The Navigator
The Navigator is a 1924 silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, celebrated for its inventive maritime gags and elaborate shipboard set pieces.
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B.
The Explorers
"The Explorers" is a poem by Walt Whitman that Ralph Vaughan Williams set in the final movement of his choral-orchestral work *A Sea Symphony*, evoking themes of seafaring, discovery, and the human spirit’s quest for the unknown.
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C.
The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent is a mythically themed land at Universal's Islands of Adventure, featuring attractions and environments inspired by ancient legends and lost civilizations.
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D.
In Search of the Castaways
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Disney adventure film based on a Jules Verne novel, following a group’s perilous global quest to find a missing sea captain.
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E.
La scoperta dell'alba
"La scoperta dell'alba" is an Italian novel by Walter Veltroni that blends elements of mystery and introspection as it explores memory, loss, and the possibility of altering the past.
- 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 Discovery Target entity description: The Discovery is a 2017 science fiction romantic drama film exploring the consequences of scientifically proving the existence of an afterlife.
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A.
The Navigator
The Navigator is a 1924 silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, celebrated for its inventive maritime gags and elaborate shipboard set pieces.
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B.
The Explorers
"The Explorers" is a poem by Walt Whitman that Ralph Vaughan Williams set in the final movement of his choral-orchestral work *A Sea Symphony*, evoking themes of seafaring, discovery, and the human spirit’s quest for the unknown.
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C.
The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent is a mythically themed land at Universal's Islands of Adventure, featuring attractions and environments inspired by ancient legends and lost civilizations.
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D.
In Search of the Castaways
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Disney adventure film based on a Jules Verne novel, following a group’s perilous global quest to find a missing sea captain.
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E.
La scoperta dell'alba
"La scoperta dell'alba" is an Italian novel by Walter Veltroni that blends elements of mystery and introspection as it explores memory, loss, and the possibility of altering the past.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| characterInPlot |
Isla
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Sturla Brandth Grøvlen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Danny Bensi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Saunder Jurriaans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Charlie McDowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Jennifer Lilly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic drama
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Jason Segel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jesse Plemons NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Steenburgen NERFINISHED ⓘ Riley Keough NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Redford NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Rooney Mara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePlatform | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
afterlife
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ethics of scientific discovery ⓘ grief ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting consequences of scientifically proving an afterlife ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| platform | Netflix ⓘ |
| platformReleaseDate | 2017-03-31 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A scientist proves the existence of an afterlife, leading to a wave of suicides and ethical dilemmas. ⓘ |
| producer |
Alex Orlovsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James D. Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Endgame Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Protagonist Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2017-01-20 ⓘ |
| releaseEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenedAt | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | near future ⓘ |
| writer |
Charlie McDowell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Justin Lader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Discovery Description of subject: The Discovery is a 2017 science fiction romantic drama film exploring the consequences of scientifically proving the existence of an afterlife.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Discovery (feature film)
this entity surface form:
The Discovery (film)