Boy (2010 film)
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Boy (2010 film) is a New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama written and directed by Taika Waititi that follows an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boy (2010 film) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9995634 — 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: Boy (2010 film) Context triple: [Taika Waititi, notableWork, Boy (2010 film)]
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A.
Boys (2003 film)
Boys is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age musical film directed by S. Shankar that follows a group of carefree teenage friends who form a band and navigate love, ambition, and rebellion.
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B.
Boy A
Boy A is a 2007 British drama film starring Andrew Garfield as a young man trying to rebuild his life after being released from prison for a notorious childhood crime.
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C.
Oh Boy
"Oh Boy" is a 2002 hit hip-hop single by Cam'ron featuring Juelz Santana, known for its catchy pitched-up soul sample and major impact on early-2000s rap.
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D.
The Boy
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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E.
The Boy Next Door
"The Boy Next Door" is a romantic ballad from the 1944 MGM musical film *Meet Me in St. Louis*, famously performed by Judy Garland.
- 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: Boy (2010 film) Target entity description: Boy (2010 film) is a New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama written and directed by Taika Waititi that follows an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father in the 1980s.
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A.
Boys (2003 film)
Boys is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language coming-of-age musical film directed by S. Shankar that follows a group of carefree teenage friends who form a band and navigate love, ambition, and rebellion.
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B.
Boy A
Boy A is a 2007 British drama film starring Andrew Garfield as a young man trying to rebuild his life after being released from prison for a notorious childhood crime.
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C.
Oh Boy
"Oh Boy" is a 2002 hit hip-hop single by Cam'ron featuring Juelz Santana, known for its catchy pitched-up soul sample and major impact on early-2000s rap.
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D.
The Boy
The Boy is a 2016 American horror film about a young woman hired to nanny a lifelike doll that may be supernaturally alive.
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E.
The Boy Next Door
"The Boy Next Door" is a romantic ballad from the 1944 MGM musical film *Meet Me in St. Louis*, famously performed by Judy Garland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeRevenue | over 9 million New Zealand dollars ⓘ |
| castMember |
Cherilee Martin
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Cohen Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ Craig Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Haze Reweti NERFINISHED ⓘ James Rolleston NERFINISHED ⓘ Moerangi Tihore NERFINISHED ⓘ Pana Hema Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel House NERFINISHED ⓘ Rajvinder Eria NERFINISHED ⓘ RickyLee Waipuka-Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ Taika Waititi NERFINISHED ⓘ Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Adam Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFilming | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | New Zealand ⓘ |
| director | Taika Waititi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorEthnicity | Māori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorNationality | New Zealander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Transmission Films
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Unison Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Chris Plummer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
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coming-of-age ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Māori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alamein
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Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | The Phoenix Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Audience Award at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| producer |
Ainsley Gardiner
NERFINISHED
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Cliff Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ Clifford Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
New Zealand Film Commission
NERFINISHED
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Whenua Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Taika Waititi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Bay of Plenty Region
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Waihau Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1984 ⓘ |
| theme |
Māori identity
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childhood imagination ⓘ father–son relationship ⓘ |
| writer | Taika Waititi 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: Boy (2010 film) Description of subject: Boy (2010 film) is a New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama written and directed by Taika Waititi that follows an imaginative Māori boy reconnecting with his estranged father in the 1980s.
Referenced by (4)
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