The Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay)

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The Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay) is a classic 1950s science fiction film script by Richard Matheson about a man who mysteriously begins to shrink, exploring themes of identity, survival, and existential dread.

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Label	Occurrences
The Incredible Shrinking Man	10
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957 film)	2
The Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay) canonical	1
The Shrinking Man	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1753802 — 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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Target entity: The Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay)
Context triple: [Richard Matheson, wrote, The Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay)]

A. The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
B. Man Equals Man
Man Equals Man is a satirical play by Bertolt Brecht that explores themes of identity, dehumanization, and the malleability of the individual within militaristic and capitalist systems.
C. The Man in the Glass Booth
The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1967 stage play by Robert Shaw that explores identity, guilt, and the legacy of the Holocaust through the trial of a mysterious Jewish industrialist accused of being a Nazi war criminal.
D. The Heart of Screenland
The Heart of Screenland is the official motto of Culver City, California, reflecting its historic role as a major center of film and television production.
E. The Agnew Clinic
The Agnew Clinic is a renowned 1889 realist painting by American artist Thomas Eakins depicting Dr. David Hayes Agnew performing surgery before medical students.
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 Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay)
Target entity description: The Incredible Shrinking Man (screenplay) is a classic 1950s science fiction film script by Richard Matheson about a man who mysteriously begins to shrink, exploring themes of identity, survival, and existential dread.

A. The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
B. Man Equals Man
Man Equals Man is a satirical play by Bertolt Brecht that explores themes of identity, dehumanization, and the malleability of the individual within militaristic and capitalist systems.
C. The Man in the Glass Booth
The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1967 stage play by Robert Shaw that explores identity, guilt, and the legacy of the Holocaust through the trial of a mysterious Jewish industrialist accused of being a Nazi war criminal.
D. The Heart of Screenland
The Heart of Screenland is the official motto of Culver City, California, reflecting its historic role as a major center of film and television production.
E. The Agnew Clinic
The Agnew Clinic is a renowned 1889 realist painting by American artist Thomas Eakins depicting Dr. David Hayes Agnew performing surgery before medical students.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film script ⓘ science fiction screenplay ⓘ screenplay ⓘ
author	Richard Matheson ⓘ
basedOnWorkBy	Richard Matheson ⓘ
conflictType	man versus nature ⓘ man versus self ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
era	Cold War era science fiction ⓘ
explores	changing sense of self ⓘ fear of the unknown ⓘ human vulnerability ⓘ
genre	science fiction ⓘ
hasMotif	loss of control ⓘ man versus environment ⓘ scale and perspective ⓘ
influencedBy	mid-20th-century anxieties about science and technology ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryStyle	speculative fiction ⓘ
mainCharacter	a man who mysteriously begins to shrink ⓘ
mainTheme	existential dread ⓘ identity ⓘ survival ⓘ
narrativeFocus	physical shrinking of the protagonist ⓘ psychological impact of transformation ⓘ
period	1950s ⓘ
portrays	existential crisis ⓘ isolation of the protagonist ⓘ struggle for survival at diminishing scale ⓘ
protagonistGender	male ⓘ
setting	contemporary United States (1950s) ⓘ
structure	linear narrative ⓘ
targetMedium	feature film ⓘ
theme	adaptation to extreme change ⓘ insignificance of the individual in the universe ⓘ mortality ⓘ
tone	dark ⓘ philosophical ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ

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