The Thing from Another World
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The Thing from Another World is a 1951 science fiction horror film about an Arctic research team confronting a hostile alien creature, regarded as a classic of the genre and an early Cold War-era monster movie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Thing from Another World canonical | 10 |
| The Thing from Another World (stage adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13499543 — 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: The Thing from Another World Context triple: [Ellsworth Fredericks, notableWork, The Thing from Another World]
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A.
The Thing
"The Thing" is a philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger that explores the nature of objects and their relation to human existence and world-disclosure.
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B.
The Thing
The Thing is a Scandinavian free jazz trio known for its intense, improvisational style and collaborations with artists across genres.
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C.
The Thing
The Thing is a Marvel Comics superhero best known as the orange, rock-skinned, super-strong member of the Fantastic Four.
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D.
The Thing (1982 film)
The Thing (1982 film) is a 1982 science fiction horror movie about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station, renowned for its practical effects, paranoia-driven plot, and status as a cult classic.
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E.
Them!
Them! is a 1954 science fiction horror film about giant, irradiated ants that became a classic of the atomic-age monster movie genre.
- 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: The Thing from Another World Target entity description: The Thing from Another World is a 1951 science fiction horror film about an Arctic research team confronting a hostile alien creature, regarded as a classic of the genre and an early Cold War-era monster movie.
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A.
The Thing
"The Thing" is a philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger that explores the nature of objects and their relation to human existence and world-disclosure.
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B.
The Thing
The Thing is a Scandinavian free jazz trio known for its intense, improvisational style and collaborations with artists across genres.
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C.
The Thing
The Thing is a Marvel Comics superhero best known as the orange, rock-skinned, super-strong member of the Fantastic Four.
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D.
The Thing (1982 film)
The Thing (1982 film) is a 1982 science fiction horror movie about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station, renowned for its practical effects, paranoia-driven plot, and status as a cult classic.
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E.
Them!
Them! is a 1954 science fiction horror film about giant, irradiated ants that became a classic of the atomic-age monster movie genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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horror film ⓘ monster film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Who Goes There? ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | John W. Campbell Jr. ⓘ |
| castMember |
Douglas Spencer
ⓘ
James Arness ⓘ Kenneth Tobey ⓘ Margaret Sheridan ⓘ Robert Cornthwaite ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Russell Harlan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| director | Christian Nyby ⓘ |
| distributedBy | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Roland Gross ⓘ |
| era | early Cold War ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
RKO studios
ⓘ
linked to:
RKO Radio Pictures
|
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
monster ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasRemake |
The Thing (1982 film)
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linked to:
The Thing
|
| hasTagline | Keep watching the skies! ⓘ |
| influenced |
The Thing (1982 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Thing
|
| leadActor | Kenneth Tobey ⓘ |
| monsterType |
extraterrestrial
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humanoid plant-like alien ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dimitri Tiomkin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early Cold War-era science fiction horror film
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being regarded as a classic of the science fiction horror genre ⓘ its depiction of a hostile alien creature in an Arctic setting ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An Arctic research team confronts a hostile alien creature recovered from a crashed spacecraft. ⓘ |
| producer | Howard Hawks ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Winchester Pictures Corporation ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Charles Lederer ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Arctic
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linked to:
Arctic region
Arctic research station ⓘ |
| theme |
Cold War paranoia
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fear of the unknown ⓘ military versus science tension ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | contemporary to early 1950s ⓘ |
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: The Thing from Another World Description of subject: The Thing from Another World is a 1951 science fiction horror film about an Arctic research team confronting a hostile alien creature, regarded as a classic of the genre and an early Cold War-era monster movie.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Thing from Another World