The Bad Seed
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The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-drama film about a seemingly perfect little girl who may be a remorseless killer.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Bad Seed canonical | 4 |
| The Bad Seed (1956 film) | 4 |
| Bad Seed (screenplay adaptation) | 1 |
| The Bad Seed (2018 TV film) | 1 |
| The Bad Seed (2018 film) | 1 |
| The Bad Seed (Broadway play) | 1 |
| The Bad Seed (novel) | 1 |
| The Bad Seed (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2436630 — 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 Bad Seed Context triple: [Mervyn LeRoy, notableWork, The Bad Seed]
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A.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
The Child Killer
The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about a manipulative carnival worker who becomes a corrupt mentalist.
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E.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival worker whose ruthless pursuit of success leads to his downfall.
- 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 Bad Seed Target entity description: The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-drama film about a seemingly perfect little girl who may be a remorseless killer.
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A.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
The Child Killer
The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about a manipulative carnival worker who becomes a corrupt mentalist.
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E.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival worker whose ruthless pursuit of success leads to his downfall.
- 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: The Bad Seed Description of subject: The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-drama film about a seemingly perfect little girl who may be a remorseless killer.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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