Tetra Vaal
E1007716
Tetra Vaal is a short film by Neill Blomkamp depicting a near-future police force of humanoid robots patrolling a South African township.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tetravaal | 2 |
| Tetra Vaal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12869053 — 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: Tetra Vaal Context triple: [Chappie, basedOn, Tetra Vaal]
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A.
Tetrapla
The Tetrapla is an ancient four-column edition of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally attributed to Origen, that presented multiple Greek versions side by side for textual comparison.
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B.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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C.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
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D.
Rhodeus
Rhodeus is a genus of small freshwater bitterling fishes known for their unique reproductive behavior of depositing eggs in live freshwater mussels.
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E.
Mutilus
Mutilus is the cognomen of Gaius Papius Mutilus, a prominent Samnite leader during the Roman Social War.
- 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: Tetra Vaal Target entity description: Tetra Vaal is a short film by Neill Blomkamp depicting a near-future police force of humanoid robots patrolling a South African township.
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A.
Tetrapla
The Tetrapla is an ancient four-column edition of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally attributed to Origen, that presented multiple Greek versions side by side for textual comparison.
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B.
Taroa
Taroa is the main settlement and administrative center of Maloelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, known historically for its World War II-era Japanese airbase.
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C.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
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D.
Rhodeus
Rhodeus is a genus of small freshwater bitterling fishes known for their unique reproductive behavior of depositing eggs in live freshwater mussels.
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E.
Mutilus
Mutilus is the cognomen of Gaius Papius Mutilus, a prominent Samnite leader during the Roman Social War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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science fiction film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Africa ⓘ |
| creator | Neill Blomkamp ⓘ |
| depicts |
law enforcement robots
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near-future policing ⓘ |
| director |
Neill Blomkamp
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Neill Blomkamp ⓘ |
| directorNationality | South African ⓘ |
| features |
CGI robots
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urban environment ⓘ |
| genre |
mock commercial
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalOrganization | Tetra Vaal (robotics company) ⓘ |
| hasOnlineAvailability |
short film websites
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video sharing platforms ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Chappie ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
humanoid robots
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robotic police force ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early use of realistic CGI robots
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precursor to Neill Blomkamp feature films ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tetra Vaal (fictional company) ⓘ |
| settingLocation | South African township ⓘ |
| theme |
militarized policing
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privatization of security ⓘ social inequality ⓘ technology and control ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
documentary-style cinematography
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faux corporate advertisement ⓘ |
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: Tetra Vaal Description of subject: Tetra Vaal is a short film by Neill Blomkamp depicting a near-future police force of humanoid robots patrolling a South African township.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tetra Vaal
linked to: Tetra Vaal