The Exorcist
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The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379904 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Exorcist Context triple: [New Hollywood, notableFilm, The Exorcist]
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Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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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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The Conjuring
The Conjuring is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed by James Wan that follows real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as they confront a malevolent presence haunting a family’s farmhouse.
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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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The Shining (1980 film)
The Shining (1980 film) is Stanley Kubrick’s iconic psychological horror movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a family’s terrifying descent into madness at an isolated, haunted hotel.
- 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 Exorcist Target entity description: The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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A.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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B.
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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C.
The Conjuring
The Conjuring is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed by James Wan that follows real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as they confront a malevolent presence haunting a family’s farmhouse.
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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.
The Shining (1980 film)
The Shining (1980 film) is Stanley Kubrick’s iconic psychological horror movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a family’s terrifying descent into madness at an isolated, haunted hotel.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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 Exorcist Description of subject: The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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