An alien child named MAC is separated from his family and befriends a boy in a wheelchair while being pursued by government agents.
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Mac and Me is a 1988 family science fiction film widely known as a low-budget, E.T.-inspired movie infamous for its heavy product placement and cult status as a so-bad-it’s-good classic.
All labels observed (1)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11760203 — 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: An alien child named MAC is separated from his family and befriends a boy in a wheelchair while being pursued by government agents. Context triple: [Mac and Me, plotSummary, An alien child named MAC is separated from his family and befriends a boy in a wheelchair while being pursued by government agents.]
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A.
Alien Friends Act
The Alien Friends Act was a 1798 U.S. federal law that empowered the president to detain and deport non-citizens deemed dangerous, and became infamous as part of a broader crackdown on political dissent.
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B.
Roger the Alien
Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
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C.
Space Mowgli
"Space Mowgli" is a Soviet science fiction novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that explores the encounter between human explorers and a feral human child raised by an alien environment.
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D.
Teenage Spaceship
"Teenage Spaceship" is an introspective, slow-burning indie rock song by Bill Callahan’s project Smog, noted for its atmospheric minimalism and coming-of-age themes.
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E.
The Alien in Our Midst
"The Alien in Our Midst" is a nativist, early 20th-century work by eugenicist and conservationist Madison Grant that reflects his anti-immigration and racialist views.
- 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: An alien child named MAC is separated from his family and befriends a boy in a wheelchair while being pursued by government agents. Target entity description: Mac and Me is a 1988 family science fiction film widely known as a low-budget, E.T.-inspired movie infamous for its heavy product placement and cult status as a so-bad-it’s-good classic.
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A.
Alien Friends Act
The Alien Friends Act was a 1798 U.S. federal law that empowered the president to detain and deport non-citizens deemed dangerous, and became infamous as part of a broader crackdown on political dissent.
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B.
Roger the Alien
Roger the Alien is a flamboyant, shape-shifting extraterrestrial character from the animated TV series "American Dad!" known for his sarcastic humor, elaborate disguises, and chaotic schemes.
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C.
Space Mowgli
"Space Mowgli" is a Soviet science fiction novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that explores the encounter between human explorers and a feral human child raised by an alien environment.
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D.
Teenage Spaceship
"Teenage Spaceship" is an introspective, slow-burning indie rock song by Bill Callahan’s project Smog, noted for its atmospheric minimalism and coming-of-age themes.
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E.
The Alien in Our Midst
"The Alien in Our Midst" is a nativist, early 20th-century work by eugenicist and conservationist Madison Grant that reflects his anti-immigration and racialist views.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: An alien child named MAC is separated from his family and befriends a boy in a wheelchair while being pursued by government agents. Description of subject: Mac and Me is a 1988 family science fiction film widely known as a low-budget, E.T.-inspired movie infamous for its heavy product placement and cult status as a so-bad-it’s-good classic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mac and Me
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plotSummary
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An alien child named MAC is separated from his family and befriends a boy in a wheelchair while being pursued by government agents.
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