The Lost Explorer
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The Lost Explorer is a short film directed by Tim Walker, based on a story by Patrick McGrath, that blends surreal fantasy and coming-of-age themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lost Explorer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11807932 — 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 Lost Explorer Context triple: [David Roberts, notableWork, The Lost Explorer]
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A.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 science fiction adventure film set on a distant, lawless planet, blending space opera and post-apocalyptic themes.
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B.
The Explorer
The Explorer is the adventurous mascot representing La Salle University's spirit of discovery and exploration.
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C.
The Explorers
"The Explorers" is a poem by Walt Whitman that Ralph Vaughan Williams set in the final movement of his choral-orchestral work *A Sea Symphony*, evoking themes of seafaring, discovery, and the human spirit’s quest for the unknown.
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D.
The Explorers
The Explorers is a science fiction collection by Cyril M. Kornbluth that showcases his sharp, satirical take on future societies and human nature.
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E.
Escapade
"Escapade" is an upbeat, chart-topping pop and R&B single by Janet Jackson from her 1989 album "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814."
- 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 Lost Explorer Target entity description: The Lost Explorer is a short film directed by Tim Walker, based on a story by Patrick McGrath, that blends surreal fantasy and coming-of-age themes.
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A.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a 1983 science fiction adventure film set on a distant, lawless planet, blending space opera and post-apocalyptic themes.
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B.
The Explorer
The Explorer is the adventurous mascot representing La Salle University's spirit of discovery and exploration.
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C.
The Explorers
"The Explorers" is a poem by Walt Whitman that Ralph Vaughan Williams set in the final movement of his choral-orchestral work *A Sea Symphony*, evoking themes of seafaring, discovery, and the human spirit’s quest for the unknown.
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D.
The Explorers
The Explorers is a science fiction collection by Cyril M. Kornbluth that showcases his sharp, satirical take on future societies and human nature.
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E.
Escapade
"Escapade" is an upbeat, chart-topping pop and R&B single by Janet Jackson from her 1989 album "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | short story by Patrick McGrath ⓘ |
| basedOn | a story by Patrick McGrath ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Tim Walker ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | surreal world ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfSourceMaterial | Patrick McGrath ⓘ |
| hasCinematicForm | short narrative ⓘ |
| hasCreativeContributor |
Patrick McGrath
ⓘ
Tim Walker ⓘ |
| hasDirector | Tim Walker ⓘ |
| hasLengthCategory | short ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
fantastical realism
ⓘ
surrealism ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
ⓘ
surreal fantasy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
encounter with the unknown
ⓘ
youthful self-discovery ⓘ |
| primaryAudience |
adult
ⓘ
young adult ⓘ |
| productionFormat | short format ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Patrick McGrath
ⓘ
Tim Walker ⓘ |
| title | The Lost Explorer ⓘ |
| workType | narrative film ⓘ |
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 Lost Explorer Description of subject: The Lost Explorer is a short film directed by Tim Walker, based on a story by Patrick McGrath, that blends surreal fantasy and coming-of-age themes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.