The Howling
E409064
The Howling is a 1981 horror film renowned for its groundbreaking werewolf transformation effects and influential contribution to modern werewolf cinema.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Howling canonical | 16 |
| Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf | 1 |
| The Howling (novel) | 1 |
| The Howling film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4032935 — 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 Howling Context triple: [Rick Baker, notableWork, The Howling]
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A.
The Howling Man
"The Howling Man" is a memorable episode of the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone, known for its eerie moral tale about a traveler who unwittingly releases the Devil from captivity.
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B.
The Howling Hex
The Howling Hex is an American rock band led by guitarist and songwriter Neil Michael Hagerty, known for its experimental, lo-fi, and psychedelic approach to indie rock.
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C.
The Case of the Howling Dog
The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason investigating a bizarre case involving a mysterious will, a howling dog, and a complex murder plot.
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D.
Night Hunters
Night Hunters is a nocturnal animal exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden featuring predators adapted to life in the dark.
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E.
Fierce Creatures
Fierce Creatures is a 1997 British comedy film, conceived as a spiritual successor to A Fish Called Wanda, featuring John Cleese and other members of that ensemble in a farcical story about a struggling zoo.
- 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 Howling Target entity description: The Howling is a 1981 horror film renowned for its groundbreaking werewolf transformation effects and influential contribution to modern werewolf cinema.
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A.
The Howling Man
"The Howling Man" is a memorable episode of the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone, known for its eerie moral tale about a traveler who unwittingly releases the Devil from captivity.
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B.
The Howling Hex
The Howling Hex is an American rock band led by guitarist and songwriter Neil Michael Hagerty, known for its experimental, lo-fi, and psychedelic approach to indie rock.
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C.
The Case of the Howling Dog
The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring lawyer-sleuth Perry Mason investigating a bizarre case involving a mysterious will, a howling dog, and a complex murder plot.
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D.
Night Hunters
Night Hunters is a nocturnal animal exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden featuring predators adapted to life in the dark.
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E.
Fierce Creatures
Fierce Creatures is a 1997 British comedy film, conceived as a spiritual successor to A Fish Called Wanda, featuring John Cleese and other members of that ensemble in a farcical story about a struggling zoo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Howling Description of subject: The Howling is a 1981 horror film renowned for its groundbreaking werewolf transformation effects and influential contribution to modern werewolf cinema.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Howling
linked to: The Howling
linked to: The Howling