War of the Worlds (2005 film)
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War of the Worlds (2005 film) is a science fiction disaster movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise that modernizes H.G. Wells's classic alien invasion novel into a contemporary, large-scale cinematic spectacle.
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| War of the Worlds | 12 |
| War of the Worlds (2005 film) canonical | 11 |
| The War of the Worlds (2005 film) | 1 |
| War of the Worlds (2005 film screenplay) | 1 |
| War of the Worlds franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T824693 — 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: War of the Worlds (2005 film) Context triple: [The War of the Worlds, notableAdaptation, War of the Worlds (2005 film)]
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Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a 2008 found-footage-style monster disaster film produced by J. J. Abrams, known for its viral marketing campaign and intense, first-person depiction of a giant creature attacking New York City.
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Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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Elysium
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in a dystopian future where a wealthy elite live on a luxurious space habitat while the rest of humanity struggles on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
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28 Days Later
28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle that revitalized the zombie genre with its fast-infected concept and gritty, low-budget digital aesthetic.
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Cloverfield Paradox
Cloverfield Paradox is a 2018 science fiction horror film set on a space station whose experiments trigger catastrophic, reality-bending consequences connected to the broader Cloverfield universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: War of the Worlds (2005 film) Target entity description: War of the Worlds (2005 film) is a science fiction disaster movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise that modernizes H.G. Wells's classic alien invasion novel into a contemporary, large-scale cinematic spectacle.
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A.
Cloverfield
Cloverfield is a 2008 found-footage-style monster disaster film produced by J. J. Abrams, known for its viral marketing campaign and intense, first-person depiction of a giant creature attacking New York City.
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B.
Elysium
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in a dystopian future where a wealthy elite live on a luxurious space habitat while the rest of humanity struggles on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
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C.
Elysium
Elysium is the blissful afterlife realm in ancient Greek belief where especially virtuous or heroic souls enjoyed eternal happiness.
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D.
28 Days Later
28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle that revitalized the zombie genre with its fast-infected concept and gritty, low-budget digital aesthetic.
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E.
Cloverfield Paradox
Cloverfield Paradox is a 2018 science fiction horror film set on a space station whose experiments trigger catastrophic, reality-bending consequences connected to the broader Cloverfield universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: War of the Worlds (2005 film) Description of subject: War of the Worlds (2005 film) is a science fiction disaster movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise that modernizes H.G. Wells's classic alien invasion novel into a contemporary, large-scale cinematic spectacle.
Referenced by (26)
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Steven Spielberg
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David Koepp
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Hannah Dakota Fanning
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War of the Worlds
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