The Kid Detective
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The Kid Detective is a 2020 dark comedy-mystery film about a once-celebrated child sleuth, now a disillusioned adult, who gets a chance at redemption when he takes on a serious new case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Kid Detective canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8782341 — 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 Kid Detective Context triple: [Jacob Tremblay, notableWork, The Kid Detective]
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A.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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B.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
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C.
The Five Find-Outers
The Five Find-Outers are a group of child detectives from Enid Blyton’s mystery novels who solve local crimes and puzzles in the village of Peterswood.
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D.
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin is a classic British crime novel by Edgar Wallace featuring a locked-room style mystery and intricate detective plot.
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E.
The Detective Agency
The Detective Agency is a film production company known for its involvement in major Hollywood projects such as the adventure comedy sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level."
- 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 Kid Detective Target entity description: The Kid Detective is a 2020 dark comedy-mystery film about a once-celebrated child sleuth, now a disillusioned adult, who gets a chance at redemption when he takes on a serious new case.
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A.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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B.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
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C.
The Five Find-Outers
The Five Find-Outers are a group of child detectives from Enid Blyton’s mystery novels who solve local crimes and puzzles in the village of Peterswood.
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D.
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin is a classic British crime novel by Edgar Wallace featuring a locked-room style mystery and intricate detective plot.
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E.
The Detective Agency
The Detective Agency is a film production company known for its involvement in major Hollywood projects such as the adventure comedy sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Mike McLaughlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| director | Evan Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Curt Lobb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Caroline
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Principal Erwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasAgeRating | R ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Abe Applebaum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jay McCarrol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
darkly comedic
ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A once-celebrated child detective, now a disillusioned adult, investigates a serious new case involving a murdered teenager. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Adam Brody NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Dan Bekerman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
JoBro Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Woods Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2020-09-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Evan Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | small town ⓘ |
| starring |
Adam Brody
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Whittaker NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Dean Wint NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter MacNeill NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Sutherland NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophie Nélisse NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzi Ma NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendy Crewson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDate | 2020-10-16 ⓘ |
| theme |
disillusionment
ⓘ
lost innocence ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| writer | Evan Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Kid Detective Description of subject: The Kid Detective is a 2020 dark comedy-mystery film about a once-celebrated child sleuth, now a disillusioned adult, who gets a chance at redemption when he takes on a serious new case.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.