Mama (2008 short film)
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Mama (2008 short film) is a Spanish-language horror short by Andy Muschietti that gained attention for its chilling depiction of two young sisters haunted by a supernatural maternal figure and later inspired the 2013 feature film adaptation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mama (2008 short film) canonical | 2 |
| Mamá (2008 short film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8315329 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Mama (2008 short film) Context triple: [Andy Muschietti, directed, Mama (2008 short film)]
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Mama (TV series)
Mama (TV series) is an early American television drama, adapted from the play and film "I Remember Mama," that portrayed the everyday life of a Norwegian-American family in early 20th-century San Francisco.
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MAMA
MAMA (Murray Art Museum Albury) is a contemporary art museum and cultural venue located in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
MAMA
MAMA is the commonly used acronym for the MTV Africa Music Awards, an annual event celebrating contemporary African music and artists.
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Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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E.
Mama
Mama is a recurring supporting character in the animated television series "Rocket Power," known for her role within the show's surfing and extreme-sports-centered world.
- 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: Mama (2008 short film) Target entity description: Mama (2008 short film) is a Spanish-language horror short by Andy Muschietti that gained attention for its chilling depiction of two young sisters haunted by a supernatural maternal figure and later inspired the 2013 feature film adaptation.
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A.
Mama (TV series)
Mama (TV series) is an early American television drama, adapted from the play and film "I Remember Mama," that portrayed the everyday life of a Norwegian-American family in early 20th-century San Francisco.
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B.
MAMA
MAMA (Murray Art Museum Albury) is a contemporary art museum and cultural venue located in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
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C.
MAMA
MAMA is the commonly used acronym for the MTV Africa Music Awards, an annual event celebrating contemporary African music and artists.
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D.
Mama
Mama is a recurring supporting character in the animated television series "Rocket Power," known for her role within the show's surfing and extreme-sports-centered world.
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E.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mama (2008 short film) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| director | Andy Muschietti ⓘ |
| directorNationality | Argentine ⓘ |
| filmmaker | Andy Muschietti ⓘ |
| format | short narrative film ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist | supernatural maternal figure ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | two young sisters ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family bonds
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ supernatural horror ⓘ |
| influenced | development of the feature-length film Mama (2013) ⓘ |
| inspired |
Mama (2013 feature film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mama (2013 film)
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| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| medium | live-action ⓘ |
| notableFor | chilling depiction of two young sisters haunted by a supernatural entity ⓘ |
| productionType | independent film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runtimeCategory | short ⓘ |
| title | Mama ⓘ |
| writer | Andy Muschietti ⓘ |
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: Mama (2008 short film) Description of subject: Mama (2008 short film) is a Spanish-language horror short by Andy Muschietti that gained attention for its chilling depiction of two young sisters haunted by a supernatural maternal figure and later inspired the 2013 feature film adaptation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.