The Serpent and the Rainbow
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The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film directed by Wes Craven that blends voodoo folklore with psychological terror, loosely based on Wade Davis’s non-fiction book about Haitian zombification practices.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838619 — 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)
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Target entity: The Serpent and the Rainbow Context triple: [Michael Gough, notableWork, The Serpent and the Rainbow]
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Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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Book of Signs
The Book of Signs is the first major section of the Gospel of John, characterized by a series of Jesus’ miraculous works that reveal his identity and mission.
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The Lost Jungle
The Lost Jungle is a 1934 adventure film serial set in a perilous, exotic jungle, directed by Ford Beebe and known for its action-packed, cliffhanger-driven storyline.
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The Obscene Bird of Night
The Obscene Bird of Night is a landmark Chilean novel by José Donoso, renowned for its dark, labyrinthine narrative and its exploration of identity, madness, and social decay within the Latin American literary canon.
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The Land
The Land is an EPCOT pavilion focused on agriculture and the natural environment, featuring attractions and exhibits about sustainable farming, ecosystems, and human interaction with the Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Serpent and the Rainbow Target entity description: The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film directed by Wes Craven that blends voodoo folklore with psychological terror, loosely based on Wade Davis’s non-fiction book about Haitian zombification practices.
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A.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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B.
Book of Signs
The Book of Signs is the first major section of the Gospel of John, characterized by a series of Jesus’ miraculous works that reveal his identity and mission.
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C.
The Lost Jungle
The Lost Jungle is a 1934 adventure film serial set in a perilous, exotic jungle, directed by Ford Beebe and known for its action-packed, cliffhanger-driven storyline.
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D.
The Obscene Bird of Night
The Obscene Bird of Night is a landmark Chilean novel by José Donoso, renowned for its dark, labyrinthine narrative and its exploration of identity, madness, and social decay within the Latin American literary canon.
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E.
The Land
The Land is an EPCOT pavilion focused on agriculture and the natural environment, featuring attractions and exhibits about sustainable farming, ecosystems, and human interaction with the Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Serpent and the Rainbow Description of subject: The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film directed by Wes Craven that blends voodoo folklore with psychological terror, loosely based on Wade Davis’s non-fiction book about Haitian zombification practices.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Richard Maxwell
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