Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film)
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Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) is a late-1950s adventure movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero story, featuring Tarzan’s encounters with explorers in the African wilderness.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) canonical | 2 |
| Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9283513 — 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: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) Context triple: [Tarzan films, includesFilm, Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film)]
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Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
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B.
Tarzan's Peril (1951 film)
Tarzan's Peril is a 1951 adventure film in the long-running Tarzan series, notable for featuring Dorothy Dandridge in an early Hollywood role.
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film) is a 1981 adventure film that reimagines Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero largely from Jane’s perspective, noted for its eroticized tone and controversial reception.
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D.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 adventure film that introduced Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in his iconic role as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan.
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E.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British adventure drama film that offers a realistic, character-driven retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan story, focusing on the hero’s dual identity between the African jungle and British aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) Target entity description: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) is a late-1950s adventure movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero story, featuring Tarzan’s encounters with explorers in the African wilderness.
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A.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
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B.
Tarzan's Peril (1951 film)
Tarzan's Peril is a 1951 adventure film in the long-running Tarzan series, notable for featuring Dorothy Dandridge in an early Hollywood role.
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C.
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film) is a 1981 adventure film that reimagines Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero largely from Jane’s perspective, noted for its eroticized tone and controversial reception.
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D.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 adventure film that introduced Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in his iconic role as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan.
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E.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British adventure drama film that offers a realistic, character-driven retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan story, focusing on the hero’s dual identity between the African jungle and British aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tarzan of the Apes ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Edgar Rice Burroughs ⓘ |
| characterTypeDepicted | jungle hero ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter | Jane ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
expeditions
ⓘ
jungle action sequences ⓘ wildlife ⓘ |
| follows | Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
jungle film ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSource |
Tarzan literary series
ⓘ
linked to:
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories
|
| hasTheme |
culture clash
ⓘ
exploration ⓘ man versus nature ⓘ |
| isRemakeOf | Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tarzan ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Tarzan’s encounters with explorers ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Tarzan films ⓘ |
| setting |
Africa
ⓘ
jungle ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfRelease | late 1950s ⓘ |
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: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) Description of subject: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film) is a late-1950s adventure movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero story, featuring Tarzan’s encounters with explorers in the African wilderness.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film)
linked to: Tarzan the Ape Man (1959 film)