The Gorilla (1927 silent film)
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The Gorilla (1927 silent film) is an American silent mystery-comedy film, now considered lost, that blends elements of crime, horror, and farce involving a series of murders attributed to a mysterious ape-like killer.
All labels observed (2)
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| The Gorilla (1927 silent film) canonical | 1 |
| The Gorilla (1930 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15184800 — 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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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Gorilla (1927 silent film) Context triple: [The Gorilla, adaptedAs, The Gorilla (1927 silent film)]
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Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
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Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
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The Romance of Tarzan (1918 film)
The Romance of Tarzan is a 1918 American silent adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan in one of his earliest screen appearances.
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D.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
"Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" is a 1952 low-budget comedy-horror film best known for starring Bela Lugosi and a Martin and Lewis imitation duo in a jungle mad-scientist plot.
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film King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933) is a landmark American monster adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic climax atop the Empire State Building.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Gorilla (1927 silent film) Target entity description: The Gorilla (1927 silent film) is an American silent mystery-comedy film, now considered lost, that blends elements of crime, horror, and farce involving a series of murders attributed to a mysterious ape-like killer.
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A.
Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
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B.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
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C.
The Romance of Tarzan (1918 film)
The Romance of Tarzan is a 1918 American silent adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan in one of his earliest screen appearances.
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D.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
"Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" is a 1952 low-budget comedy-horror film best known for starring Bela Lugosi and a Martin and Lewis imitation duo in a jungle mad-scientist plot.
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E.
film King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933) is a landmark American monster adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic climax atop the Empire State Building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Gorilla (1927 silent film)