Mortal Engines
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Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk adventure film, based on Philip Reeve’s novel, set in a future where entire cities roam on giant traction platforms and consume smaller towns to survive.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mortal Engines canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10254829 — 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: Mortal Engines Context triple: [Mortal Engines (2018 film), title, Mortal Engines]
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A.
Reign of Fire
Reign of Fire is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fantasy film in which dragons have devastated Earth and survivors struggle to reclaim the world from the fire-breathing creatures.
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B.
The Maw
The Maw is a perilous endgame zone in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, serving as the inescapable prison of the most wicked souls and the domain of the Jailer.
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C.
The Ruins
The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
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D.
The Endless
The Endless are a family of powerful, anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts in Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" comic series.
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E.
Seveneves
Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
- 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: Mortal Engines Target entity description: Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk adventure film, based on Philip Reeve’s novel, set in a future where entire cities roam on giant traction platforms and consume smaller towns to survive.
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A.
Reign of Fire
Reign of Fire is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fantasy film in which dragons have devastated Earth and survivors struggle to reclaim the world from the fire-breathing creatures.
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B.
The Maw
The Maw is a perilous endgame zone in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, serving as the inescapable prison of the most wicked souls and the domain of the Jailer.
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C.
The Ruins
The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
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D.
The Endless
The Endless are a family of powerful, anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts in Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" comic series.
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E.
Seveneves
Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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post-apocalyptic film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mortal Engines (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Philip Reeve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficeUSD | 83000000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 100000000 ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Simon Raby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
New Zealand
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Christian Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jonathan Woodford-Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
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post-apocalyptic ⓘ science fiction ⓘ steampunk ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Anna Fang
NERFINISHED
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Hester Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Thaddeus Valentine NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Natsworthy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Tom Holkenborg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
municipal Darwinism
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resource scarcity ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| producer |
Amanda Walker
NERFINISHED
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Deborah Forte NERFINISHED ⓘ Fran Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Zane Weiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
MRC
NERFINISHED
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WingNut Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate |
2018-11-27
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2018-12-06 ⓘ 2018-12-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 128 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Fran Walsh
NERFINISHED
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Peter Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippa Boyens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTime | distant future ⓘ |
| settingDescription | future Earth where cities move on giant traction platforms ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Hera Hilmar
NERFINISHED
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Hugo Weaving NERFINISHED ⓘ Jihae NERFINISHED ⓘ Leila George NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Sheehan NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Lang 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: Mortal Engines Description of subject: Mortal Engines is a 2018 post-apocalyptic steampunk adventure film, based on Philip Reeve’s novel, set in a future where entire cities roam on giant traction platforms and consume smaller towns to survive.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.