Jacob's Ladder
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Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 psychological horror film known for its nightmarish imagery and twisting narrative about a Vietnam War veteran's fractured reality.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob's Ladder canonical | 20 |
| De jacobsladder (film adaptation source) | 1 |
| Jacob's Ladder (1990 film) | 1 |
| Jacob's Ladder (2019 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2535559 — 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: Jacob's Ladder Context triple: [Tim Robbins, notableWork, Jacob's Ladder]
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A.
Jacob's ladder
Jacob's ladder is the biblical vision of a stairway or ladder reaching between earth and heaven, seen by the patriarch Jacob and symbolizing the connection between God and humanity.
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B.
Near Dark
Near Dark is a 1987 neo-Western horror film that blends vampire mythology with gritty Americana and is widely regarded as an influential cult classic.
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C.
Lost Highway
Lost Highway is a 2007 country rock-influenced studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi that explores themes of love, loss, and redemption.
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D.
The Ladder
The Ladder is a pioneering lesbian literary and political magazine that served as the primary publication of the Daughters of Bilitis and played a crucial role in early LGBTQ+ activism in the United States.
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E.
Resurrection
Resurrection is a 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of moral redemption, social injustice, and spiritual awakening through the story of a nobleman seeking to atone for a wrong done to a peasant woman.
- 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: Jacob's Ladder Target entity description: Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 psychological horror film known for its nightmarish imagery and twisting narrative about a Vietnam War veteran's fractured reality.
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A.
Jacob's ladder
Jacob's ladder is the biblical vision of a stairway or ladder reaching between earth and heaven, seen by the patriarch Jacob and symbolizing the connection between God and humanity.
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B.
Near Dark
Near Dark is a 1987 neo-Western horror film that blends vampire mythology with gritty Americana and is widely regarded as an influential cult classic.
-
C.
Lost Highway
Lost Highway is a 2007 country rock-influenced studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi that explores themes of love, loss, and redemption.
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D.
The Ladder
The Ladder is a pioneering lesbian literary and political magazine that served as the primary publication of the Daughters of Bilitis and played a crucial role in early LGBTQ+ activism in the United States.
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E.
Resurrection
Resurrection is a 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of moral redemption, social injustice, and spiritual awakening through the story of a nobleman seeking to atone for a wrong done to a peasant woman.
- 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: Jacob's Ladder Description of subject: Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 psychological horror film known for its nightmarish imagery and twisting narrative about a Vietnam War veteran's fractured reality.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jacob's Ladder
linked to: Jacob's Ladder
linked to: Jacob's Ladder
subject linked to:
Blanche Rubin