The Earthling
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The Earthling is a 1980 Australian-American drama film starring William Holden and Ricky Schroder, centered on a dying man who teaches a young boy how to survive alone in the wilderness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Earthling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10169735 — 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 Earthling Context triple: [Edward Lewis, notableWork, The Earthling]
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A.
Dayworld
Dayworld is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer that depicts an overpopulated future where people are only allowed to live one day a week under a rigidly scheduled society.
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B.
The Earth Compels
The Earth Compels is a 1938 poetry collection by Louis MacNeice that reflects his characteristic blend of personal lyricism, political awareness, and modernist technique.
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C.
Earthling
Earthling is a 2022 solo studio album by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, blending rock, folk, and alternative influences with introspective songwriting and notable guest appearances.
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D.
Gone to Earth
"Gone to Earth" is a 1917 rural romantic tragedy novel by English author Mary Webb, set in the Shropshire countryside and known for its lyrical depiction of nature and fatalistic themes.
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E.
Return to Earth
"Return to Earth" is Buzz Aldrin’s autobiographical book in which he recounts his post-Apollo 11 struggles with depression, alcoholism, and adjusting to life after becoming one of the first men on the Moon.
- 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 Earthling Target entity description: The Earthling is a 1980 Australian-American drama film starring William Holden and Ricky Schroder, centered on a dying man who teaches a young boy how to survive alone in the wilderness.
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A.
Dayworld
Dayworld is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer that depicts an overpopulated future where people are only allowed to live one day a week under a rigidly scheduled society.
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B.
The Earth Compels
The Earth Compels is a 1938 poetry collection by Louis MacNeice that reflects his characteristic blend of personal lyricism, political awareness, and modernist technique.
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C.
Earthling
Earthling is a 2022 solo studio album by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, blending rock, folk, and alternative influences with introspective songwriting and notable guest appearances.
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D.
Gone to Earth
"Gone to Earth" is a 1917 rural romantic tragedy novel by English author Mary Webb, set in the Shropshire countryside and known for its lyrical depiction of nature and fatalistic themes.
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E.
Return to Earth
"Return to Earth" is Buzz Aldrin’s autobiographical book in which he recounts his post-Apollo 11 struggles with depression, alcoholism, and adjusting to life after becoming one of the first men on the Moon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Donald McAlpine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Australia
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Peter Collinson ⓘ |
| distributor |
AVCO Embassy Pictures
ⓘ
linked to:
Embassy Pictures
|
| editedBy | Ralph Winters ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Australia
ⓘ
New South Wales ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
ⓘ
mentorship ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Ricky Schroder
ⓘ
William Holden ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Patrick Foley
ⓘ
Shawn Daley ⓘ |
| musicBy | Fred Karlin ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A dying man teaches a young boy how to survive alone in the Australian wilderness. ⓘ |
| producer | Patrick Wachsberger ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Odell
ⓘ
Lance Peters ⓘ |
| setting | Australian wilderness ⓘ |
| starring |
Ricky Schroder
ⓘ
William Holden ⓘ |
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: The Earthling Description of subject: The Earthling is a 1980 Australian-American drama film starring William Holden and Ricky Schroder, centered on a dying man who teaches a young boy how to survive alone in the wilderness.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.