The Comedy of Terrors
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The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 horror-comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur, featuring Basil Rathbone alongside Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in a macabre farce about an unscrupulous undertaker.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Comedy of Terrors canonical | 10 |
| The Comedy of Terrors (1963 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803837 — 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 Comedy of Terrors Context triple: [Basil Rathbone, notableWork, The Comedy of Terrors]
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Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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The Maid's Revenge
The Maid's Revenge is a Caroline-era tragic play by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its themes of love, honor, and revenge within a Spanish courtly setting.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 dark comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant as a man who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial killers.
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Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret is an intimate performance space associated with Barrington Stage Company, known for hosting cabaret-style music and theatrical events.
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Coward of the County
Coward of the County is a popular country song by Kenny Rogers that tells the story of a gentle man pushed to defend his honor and that of his loved one.
- 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 Comedy of Terrors Target entity description: The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 horror-comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur, featuring Basil Rathbone alongside Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in a macabre farce about an unscrupulous undertaker.
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A.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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B.
The Maid's Revenge
The Maid's Revenge is a Caroline-era tragic play by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its themes of love, honor, and revenge within a Spanish courtly setting.
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C.
Arsenic and Old Lace (film)
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 dark comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Cary Grant as a man who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial killers.
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D.
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret is an intimate performance space associated with Barrington Stage Company, known for hosting cabaret-style music and theatrical events.
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E.
Coward of the County
Coward of the County is a popular country song by Kenny Rogers that tells the story of a gentle man pushed to defend his honor and that of his loved one.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Comedy of Terrors Description of subject: The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 horror-comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur, featuring Basil Rathbone alongside Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in a macabre farce about an unscrupulous undertaker.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Comedy of Terrors