Le Salaire de la peur
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Le Salaire de la peur is a 1950 suspense novel by Georges Arnaud about men hired to transport highly explosive nitroglycerin through dangerous terrain, later adapted into several films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Salaire de la peur canonical | 8 |
| Le Salaire de la peur (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5188259 — 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: Le Salaire de la peur Context triple: [Sorcerer, basedOn, Le Salaire de la peur]
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A.
Le Rapport de Brodeck
Le Rapport de Brodeck is a critically acclaimed novel by Philippe Claudel that follows a traumatized survivor in a remote village as he investigates a mysterious crime, exploring themes of guilt, memory, and collective responsibility.
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B.
Primal Fear
Primal Fear is a 1996 legal thriller film best known for its twist-filled courtroom drama and Edward Norton’s acclaimed breakout performance.
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C.
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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D.
Nightmare Alley
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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E.
L’Intruse
L’Intruse is a symbolist one-act play by Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck that explores themes of death, fate, and the unseen through a tense, atmospheric family drama.
- 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: Le Salaire de la peur Target entity description: Le Salaire de la peur is a 1950 suspense novel by Georges Arnaud about men hired to transport highly explosive nitroglycerin through dangerous terrain, later adapted into several films.
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A.
Le Rapport de Brodeck
Le Rapport de Brodeck is a critically acclaimed novel by Philippe Claudel that follows a traumatized survivor in a remote village as he investigates a mysterious crime, exploring themes of guilt, memory, and collective responsibility.
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B.
Primal Fear
Primal Fear is a 1996 legal thriller film best known for its twist-filled courtroom drama and Edward Norton’s acclaimed breakout performance.
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C.
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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D.
Nightmare Alley
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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E.
L’Intruse
L’Intruse is a symbolist one-act play by Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck that explores themes of death, fate, and the unseen through a tense, atmospheric family drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedToFilm | yes ⓘ |
| author | Georges Arnaud ⓘ |
| centralElement | nitroglycerin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
suspense fiction
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Sorcerer (1977 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sorcerer
The Wages of Fear (1953 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Wages of Fear
The Wages of Fear (2024 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Wages of Fear
|
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
economic desperation
ⓘ
exploitation ⓘ fear ⓘ risk ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a dangerous truck journey ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of hazardous work
ⓘ
intense suspense ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Le Salaire de la peur ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Men are hired to transport highly explosive nitroglycerin through dangerous terrain. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| setting | Latin America ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | The Wages of Fear ⓘ |
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: Le Salaire de la peur Description of subject: Le Salaire de la peur is a 1950 suspense novel by Georges Arnaud about men hired to transport highly explosive nitroglycerin through dangerous terrain, later adapted into several films.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Le Salaire de la peur
subject linked to:
Georges Arnaud
subject linked to:
Georges Arnaud