Desperate Hours
E649729
Desperate Hours is a 1990 American thriller film about a family taken hostage in their own home by an escaped convict and his accomplices.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Desperate Hours canonical | 4 |
| Desperate Hours (1990 film) | 1 |
| The Desperate Hours | 1 |
| The Desperate Hours (1990 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7235293 — 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: Desperate Hours Context triple: [JoBeth Williams, notableWork, Desperate Hours]
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A.
The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours is a 1955 American film noir thriller about a suburban family taken hostage by escaped convicts, noted for its intense suspense and strong performances.
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B.
Maytime
Maytime is a popular early 20th-century operetta, later adapted into films, known for its romantic story and memorable melodies.
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C.
Have Gun – Will Travel
Have Gun – Will Travel is a classic American Western television series from the late 1950s and early 1960s that follows the adventures of a sophisticated, gun-for-hire troubleshooter known as Paladin.
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D.
Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner is a 1932 stage play by J. B. Priestley, best known as a pioneering "time play" that explores truth, memory, and the consequences of revealing secrets.
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E.
This Gun for Hire
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime thriller, best known for pairing Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in one of the genre’s defining early roles.
- 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: Desperate Hours Target entity description: Desperate Hours is a 1990 American thriller film about a family taken hostage in their own home by an escaped convict and his accomplices.
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A.
The Desperate Hours
The Desperate Hours is a 1955 American film noir thriller about a suburban family taken hostage by escaped convicts, noted for its intense suspense and strong performances.
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B.
Maytime
Maytime is a popular early 20th-century operetta, later adapted into films, known for its romantic story and memorable melodies.
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C.
Have Gun – Will Travel
Have Gun – Will Travel is a classic American Western television series from the late 1950s and early 1960s that follows the adventures of a sophisticated, gun-for-hire troubleshooter known as Paladin.
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D.
Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner is a 1932 stage play by J. B. Priestley, best known as a pioneering "time play" that explores truth, memory, and the consequences of revealing secrets.
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E.
This Gun for Hire
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime thriller, best known for pairing Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in one of the genre’s defining early roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Desperate Hours Description of subject: Desperate Hours is a 1990 American thriller film about a family taken hostage in their own home by an escaped convict and his accomplices.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Desperate Hours
linked to: Desperate Hours
linked to: Desperate Hours