The Ruins
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The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ruins canonical | 11 |
| The Ruins (2008 film) | 3 |
| The Ruins (novel) | 2 |
| Amy (The Ruins) | 1 |
| The Ruins (film adaptation screenplay) | 1 |
| The Ruins (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3749834 — 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 Ruins Context triple: [Jonathan Tucker, notableWork, The Ruins]
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A.
My City of Ruins
"My City of Ruins" is a soulful, gospel-influenced Bruce Springsteen song that became an anthem of resilience and healing, especially associated with the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
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B.
The Ruin
The Ruin is a melancholic Old English poem reflecting on the crumbling remains of a once-great stone city and the transience of human achievements.
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C.
After the Fall
After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
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D.
The Catastrophe
"The Catastrophe" is a political work by Russian revolutionary leader Alexander Kerensky analyzing the collapse of the Russian Provisional Government and the events leading to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917.
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E.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
- 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 Ruins Target entity description: The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
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A.
My City of Ruins
"My City of Ruins" is a soulful, gospel-influenced Bruce Springsteen song that became an anthem of resilience and healing, especially associated with the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
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B.
The Ruin
The Ruin is a melancholic Old English poem reflecting on the crumbling remains of a once-great stone city and the transience of human achievements.
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C.
After the Fall
After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
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D.
The Catastrophe
"The Catastrophe" is a political work by Russian revolutionary leader Alexander Kerensky analyzing the collapse of the Russian Provisional Government and the events leading to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917.
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E.
The Valley of Ghosts
The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
- 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 Ruins Description of subject: The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Ruins
subject linked to:
Jeff in The Ruins
linked to: The Ruins
subject linked to:
Jeff in The Ruins
linked to: The Ruins
subject linked to:
Jeff in The Ruins
linked to: The Ruins
linked to: The Ruins
linked to: The Ruins
linked to: The Ruins
subject linked to:
Scott Smith