The Devil’s Backbone
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The Devil’s Backbone is a 2001 Spanish gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro that blends ghost story elements with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Devil’s Backbone canonical | 18 |
| The Devil's Backbone | 2 |
| The Devil’s Backbone (2001 film) | 1 |
| The Devil’s Backbone franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T111235 — 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 Devil’s Backbone Context triple: [Guillermo Navarro, knownFor, The Devil’s Backbone]
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A.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
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B.
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright that traces the rise of al-Qaeda and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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C.
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic war drama film, based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel, that follows the tragic, interwoven stories of several characters during World War II and won multiple Academy Awards.
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- 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 Devil’s Backbone Target entity description: The Devil’s Backbone is a 2001 Spanish gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro that blends ghost story elements with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War.
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A.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
-
B.
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright that traces the rise of al-Qaeda and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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C.
The English Patient
The English Patient is a 1996 romantic war drama film, based on Michael Ondaatje’s novel, that follows the tragic, interwoven stories of several characters during World War II and won multiple Academy Awards.
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D.
L’Enfant
L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Devil’s Backbone Description of subject: The Devil’s Backbone is a 2001 Spanish gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro that blends ghost story elements with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Devil’s Backbone
linked to: The Devil’s Backbone
linked to: The Devil’s Backbone
subject linked to:
David Muñoz