The Spiral Staircase
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The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Spiral Staircase canonical | 27 |
| The Spiral Staircase (1946 film) | 2 |
| Helen in The Spiral Staircase | 1 |
| The Spiral Staircase (1975 film) | 1 |
| The Spiral Staircase (2000 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T658236 — 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: The Spiral Staircase Context triple: [Dorothy McGuire, notableWork, The Spiral Staircase]
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A.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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B.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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C.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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D.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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E.
Million Dollar Staircase
The Million Dollar Staircase is an ornate, late-19th-century grand staircase renowned for its elaborate stone carvings and opulent design inside the New York State Capitol in Albany.
- 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 Spiral Staircase Target entity description: The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
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A.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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B.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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C.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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D.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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E.
Million Dollar Staircase
The Million Dollar Staircase is an ornate, late-19th-century grand staircase renowned for its elaborate stone carvings and opulent design inside the New York State Capitol in Albany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Spiral Staircase Description of subject: The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Spiral Staircase
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subject linked to:
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester
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subject linked to:
Nicholas Musuraca (cinematographic style influence)