The Boxtrolls
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The Boxtrolls is a 2014 stop-motion animated fantasy-comedy film by Laika about a young boy raised by underground trash-collecting creatures who must save them from an evil exterminator.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Boxtrolls canonical | 9 |
| The Boxtrolls (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9739589 — 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.
Target entity: The Boxtrolls Context triple: [Richard Ayoade, voiceActedIn, The Boxtrolls]
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A.
Over the Garden Wall
Over the Garden Wall is a critically acclaimed animated miniseries that follows two half-brothers lost in a mysterious, folkloric forest, blending dark fantasy, Americana, and melancholic humor.
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B.
Over the Garden Wall
Over the Garden Wall is a 1934 British musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland.
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Monstars
The Monstars are the villainous alien basketball team that serves as the primary antagonists in the animated–live action film "Space Jam."
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D.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 2018 fantasy horror film, based on John Bellairs’ novel, about a young boy who discovers his uncle is a warlock and helps uncover a deadly magical clock hidden within their mysterious house.
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E.
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 stop-motion animated fantasy film by Laika that follows a young boy on a magical quest in ancient Japan, noted for its striking visuals and emotional storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Boxtrolls Target entity description: The Boxtrolls is a 2014 stop-motion animated fantasy-comedy film by Laika about a young boy raised by underground trash-collecting creatures who must save them from an evil exterminator.
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A.
Over the Garden Wall
Over the Garden Wall is a critically acclaimed animated miniseries that follows two half-brothers lost in a mysterious, folkloric forest, blending dark fantasy, Americana, and melancholic humor.
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B.
Over the Garden Wall
Over the Garden Wall is a 1934 British musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland.
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C.
Monstars
The Monstars are the villainous alien basketball team that serves as the primary antagonists in the animated–live action film "Space Jam."
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D.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a 2018 fantasy horror film, based on John Bellairs’ novel, about a young boy who discovers his uncle is a warlock and helps uncover a deadly magical clock hidden within their mysterious house.
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E.
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 stop-motion animated fantasy film by Laika that follows a young boy on a magical quest in ancient Japan, noted for its striking visuals and emotional storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| animationStudio | Laika NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Here Be Monsters! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Alan Snow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | John Ashlee Prat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director |
Anthony Stacchi
NERFINISHED
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Graham Annable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Focus Features NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editingBy | Edie Ichioka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
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comedy ⓘ fantasy ⓘ stop-motion animation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Archibald Snatcher
NERFINISHED
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Eggs NERFINISHED ⓘ Fish NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparky NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnie Portley-Rind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dario Marianelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Animated Feature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A human boy raised by underground trash-collecting Boxtrolls tries to save them from an evil exterminator. ⓘ |
| producer |
David Bleiman Ichioka
NERFINISHED
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David Ichioka NERFINISHED ⓘ Travis Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Laika NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate |
2014-09-11
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2014-09-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Adam Pava
NERFINISHED
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Irena Brignull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Cheesebridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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families ⓘ |
| usesTechnique | stop-motion animation ⓘ |
| voiceActor |
Ben Kingsley
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Elle Fanning NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaac Hempstead Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Jared Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Frost NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Ayoade NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Pegg NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Collette NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracy Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: The Boxtrolls Description of subject: The Boxtrolls is a 2014 stop-motion animated fantasy-comedy film by Laika about a young boy raised by underground trash-collecting creatures who must save them from an evil exterminator.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.