The Fog
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The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fog canonical | 15 |
| The Fog (1980 film) | 3 |
| The Fog (2005 film) | 2 |
| In the Mouth of Madness (1994 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1564426 — 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 Fog Context triple: [Hal Holbrook, notableWork, The Fog]
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A.
Bankhead
Bankhead is a surname most notably associated with the prominent American political family that included U.S. House Speaker William B. Bankhead and actress Tallulah Bankhead.
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B.
The Fog Warning
The Fog Warning is an 1885 oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer depicting a lone fisherman in a small dory anxiously racing an approaching fog bank on the open sea.
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C.
Misery
Misery is the first major section of the Heidelberg Catechism, focusing on humanity’s sinfulness and need for redemption.
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D.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
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E.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
- 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 Fog Target entity description: The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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A.
Bankhead
Bankhead is a surname most notably associated with the prominent American political family that included U.S. House Speaker William B. Bankhead and actress Tallulah Bankhead.
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B.
The Fog Warning
The Fog Warning is an 1885 oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer depicting a lone fisherman in a small dory anxiously racing an approaching fog bank on the open sea.
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C.
Misery
Misery is the first major section of the Heidelberg Catechism, focusing on humanity’s sinfulness and need for redemption.
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D.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
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E.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Fog Description of subject: The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Fog
linked to: The Fog
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subject linked to:
Carol Traynor|Adrienne Barbeau
linked to: The Fog
linked to: The Fog