Flubber
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Flubber is a 1997 science-fiction comedy film starring Robin Williams as an eccentric professor who invents a bouncy, sentient green substance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flubber canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11460261 — 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: Flubber Context triple: [Christopher McDonald, appearedIn, Flubber]
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A.
Son of Flubber
Son of Flubber is a 1963 Disney science-fiction comedy film and sequel to The Absent-Minded Professor, centered on a quirky professor’s misadventures with his anti-gravity invention.
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B.
FLUDD
FLUDD is a sentient water-spraying backpack device used by Mario in Super Mario Sunshine to clean up goop and gain new movement abilities.
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C.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is an animated comedy film about a young inventor whose machine makes food fall from the sky, leading to chaotic and humorous consequences.
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D.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 crime drama film starring Edward G. Robinson as a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a gang of jewel thieves to study criminal behavior.
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E.
Funny the Funhouse
Funny the Funhouse is a magical, talking playhouse character that serves as the central setting and guide for Mickey and his friends in the animated preschool series "Mickey Mouse Funhouse."
- 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: Flubber Target entity description: Flubber is a 1997 science-fiction comedy film starring Robin Williams as an eccentric professor who invents a bouncy, sentient green substance.
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A.
Son of Flubber
Son of Flubber is a 1963 Disney science-fiction comedy film and sequel to The Absent-Minded Professor, centered on a quirky professor’s misadventures with his anti-gravity invention.
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B.
FLUDD
FLUDD is a sentient water-spraying backpack device used by Mario in Super Mario Sunshine to clean up goop and gain new movement abilities.
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C.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is an animated comedy film about a young inventor whose machine makes food fall from the sky, leading to chaotic and humorous consequences.
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D.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 crime drama film starring Edward G. Robinson as a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a gang of jewel thieves to study criminal behavior.
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E.
Funny the Funhouse
Funny the Funhouse is a magical, talking playhouse character that serves as the central setting and guide for Mickey and his friends in the animated preschool series "Mickey Mouse Funhouse."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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film ⓘ science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Absent-Minded Professor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Samuel W. Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Dean Cundey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Les Mayfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
NERFINISHED
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Walt Disney Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Harvey Rosenstock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael A. Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Professor Philip Brainard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresFictionalSubstance | Flubber GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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family film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasFormat | live-action ⓘ |
| hasVisualEffectsBy | Industrial Light & Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRemakeOf | The Absent-Minded Professor (1961 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation |
college professor
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scientist ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Danny Elfman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | invention of a bouncy sentient green substance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
John Hughes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ricardo Mestres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1997-11-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 93 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bill Walsh
NERFINISHED
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John Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Medfield College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Christopher McDonald
NERFINISHED
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Clancy Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcia Gay Harden NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond J. Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Levine NERFINISHED ⓘ Wil Wheaton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| title | Flubber 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: Flubber Description of subject: Flubber is a 1997 science-fiction comedy film starring Robin Williams as an eccentric professor who invents a bouncy, sentient green substance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.