Martian Child
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Martian Child is a 2007 American comedy-drama film about a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a young boy who believes he is from Mars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martian Child canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10486320 — 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: Martian Child Context triple: [Menno Meyjes, notableWork, Martian Child]
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A.
Altri canti di Marte
"Altri canti di Marte" is a madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi, included in his influential eighth book of madrigals that explores themes of war and love.
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B.
The Angry Red Planet
The Angry Red Planet is a 1959 American science fiction film known for its expedition-to-Mars storyline and distinctive red-tinted cinematography.
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C.
The Sands of Mars
The Sands of Mars is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores early human colonization and terraforming efforts on the planet Mars.
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D.
Embrace the Martian
"Embrace the Martian" is a spacey, introspective hip-hop track by Kid Cudi that showcases his signature blend of melancholic lyrics and futuristic production.
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E.
Martians
Martians are a powerful, shape-shifting alien species from the planet Mars in DC Comics, most famously represented by the superhero Martian Manhunter.
- 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: Martian Child Target entity description: Martian Child is a 2007 American comedy-drama film about a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a young boy who believes he is from Mars.
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A.
Altri canti di Marte
"Altri canti di Marte" is a madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi, included in his influential eighth book of madrigals that explores themes of war and love.
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B.
The Angry Red Planet
The Angry Red Planet is a 1959 American science fiction film known for its expedition-to-Mars storyline and distinctive red-tinted cinematography.
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C.
The Sands of Mars
The Sands of Mars is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores early human colonization and terraforming efforts on the planet Mars.
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D.
Embrace the Martian
"Embrace the Martian" is a spacey, introspective hip-hop track by Kid Cudi that showcases his signature blend of melancholic lyrics and futuristic production.
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E.
Martians
Martians are a powerful, shape-shifting alien species from the planet Mars in DC Comics, most famously represented by the superhero Martian Manhunter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | novel-to-film adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | Martian Child (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | David Gerrold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Roberto Schaefer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Menno Meyjes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New Line Cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Bruce Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Vancouver ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Being a father is an adventure. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adoption
ⓘ
grief ⓘ identity ⓘ imagination ⓘ parent-child relationship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole |
Bobby Coleman as Dennis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cusack as David Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
David Gordon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dennis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Aaron Zigman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | relationship between an adoptive father and his unusual son ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A widowed science fiction writer adopts a young boy who believes he is from Mars. ⓘ |
| producer |
Corey Sienega
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Kirschner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-11-02 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenplayBasedOn | Martian Child (novel) by David Gerrold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jonathan Tolins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seth Bass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Amanda Peet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bobby Coleman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Cusack NERFINISHED ⓘ John Cusack NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Schiff NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophie Okonedo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Martian Child Description of subject: Martian Child is a 2007 American comedy-drama film about a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a young boy who believes he is from Mars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.