Nightmare Alley
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nightmare Alley canonical | 19 |
| Nightmare Alley (1947 film) | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T329768 — 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: Nightmare Alley Context triple: [Tyrone Power, notableWork, Nightmare Alley]
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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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The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
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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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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.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a famous Los Angeles thoroughfare known for its historic connection to the film industry, nightlife, and iconic cultural landmarks.
- 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: Nightmare Alley Target entity description: 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.
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A.
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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B.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
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C.
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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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.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a famous Los Angeles thoroughfare known for its historic connection to the film industry, nightlife, and iconic cultural landmarks.
- 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: Nightmare Alley Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Nightmare Alley
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William Lindsay Gresham
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William Lindsay Gresham
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Nightmare Alley (novel)
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Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character)
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Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character)
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