Cape Fear (1962 film)
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Cape Fear (1962 film) is a 1962 psychological thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson, in which a menacing ex-convict terrorizes the family of the lawyer who helped send him to prison.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cape Fear (1962 film) canonical | 27 |
| Cape Fear (1962 film) score | 1 |
| Cape Fear (John D. MacDonald novel "The Executioners") | 1 |
| Cape Fear film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379501 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Cape Fear (1962 film) Context triple: [Gregory Peck, notableWork, Cape Fear (1962 film)]
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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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B.
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film starring James Dean as a troubled suburban teenager, renowned for its exploration of adolescent angst and its lasting impact on youth culture in cinema.
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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.
The Accused
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film that powerfully examines sexual assault and victim-blaming, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
- 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: Cape Fear (1962 film) Target entity description: Cape Fear (1962 film) is a 1962 psychological thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson, in which a menacing ex-convict terrorizes the family of the lawyer who helped send him to prison.
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A.
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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B.
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film starring James Dean as a troubled suburban teenager, renowned for its exploration of adolescent angst and its lasting impact on youth culture in cinema.
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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.
The Accused
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film that powerfully examines sexual assault and victim-blaming, featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
- 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: Cape Fear (1962 film) Description of subject: Cape Fear (1962 film) is a 1962 psychological thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson, in which a menacing ex-convict terrorizes the family of the lawyer who helped send him to prison.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eldred
linked to: Cape Fear (1962 film)
subject linked to:
fictional town of New Essex
Robert Mitchum as Max Cady
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Cape Fear (John D. MacDonald novel "The Executioners")
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linked to: Cape Fear (1962 film)
subject linked to:
Mitchum
subject linked to:
Mitchum family
subject linked to:
Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
linked to: Cape Fear (1962 film)