The Death Kiss
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The Death Kiss is a 1932 pre-Code mystery film best known for reuniting several stars of the original Dracula in a story about a murder on a movie set.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Death Kiss canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12890416 — 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 Death Kiss Context triple: [Adrienne Ames, notableWork, The Death Kiss]
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A.
Kiss of Death
Kiss of Death is a 1947 American film noir crime drama best known for its gritty realism and Richard Widmark’s chilling debut performance as a sadistic villain.
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B.
Killer’s Kiss
Killer’s Kiss is a 1955 low-budget film noir drama and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early feature films, noted for its gritty New York City setting and experimental visual style.
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C.
Crimson Kiss
"Crimson Kiss" is a standout musical number from the stage adaptation of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, capturing the darkly romantic and gothic tone of the Lestat musical.
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D.
A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American film noir thriller, based on Ira Levin’s novel, about a charming but ruthless young man who resorts to murder to secure wealth and social status.
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E.
The Last Kiss
The Last Kiss is a 2006 romantic dramedy film about the anxieties of approaching adulthood and commitment, starring Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn.
- 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 Death Kiss Target entity description: The Death Kiss is a 1932 pre-Code mystery film best known for reuniting several stars of the original Dracula in a story about a murder on a movie set.
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A.
Kiss of Death
Kiss of Death is a 1947 American film noir crime drama best known for its gritty realism and Richard Widmark’s chilling debut performance as a sadistic villain.
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B.
Killer’s Kiss
Killer’s Kiss is a 1955 low-budget film noir drama and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early feature films, noted for its gritty New York City setting and experimental visual style.
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C.
Crimson Kiss
"Crimson Kiss" is a standout musical number from the stage adaptation of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, capturing the darkly romantic and gothic tone of the Lestat musical.
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D.
A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American film noir thriller, based on Ira Levin’s novel, about a charming but ruthless young man who resorts to murder to secure wealth and social status.
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E.
The Last Kiss
The Last Kiss is a 2006 romantic dramedy film about the anxieties of approaching adulthood and commitment, starring Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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black-and-white film ⓘ film ⓘ mystery film ⓘ pre-Code film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Death Kiss (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Madelon St. Dennis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterInPlot |
Franklyn Drew
NERFINISHED
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Marcia Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Arthur Edeson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Edwin L. Marin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sono Art-World Wide Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Carl Pierson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresActorPreviouslyIn | Dracula (1931 film) GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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mystery film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Adrienne Ames
NERFINISHED
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Al Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexander Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ Bela Lugosi NERFINISHED ⓘ David Manners NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Van Sloan NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Minjir NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wray NERFINISHED ⓘ Mishka Auer NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Barnett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Death Kiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | reuniting several stars of the 1931 film Dracula ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An actor is shot and killed during the filming of a movie, and a studio scenario writer investigates the murder. ⓘ |
| producer | Trem Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tiffany Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 72 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Barry Barringer
NERFINISHED
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Florence Ryerson NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
film studio
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movie set ⓘ |
| starredInPreviously |
Bela Lugosi
NERFINISHED
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David Manners NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Van Sloan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Death Kiss Description of subject: The Death Kiss is a 1932 pre-Code mystery film best known for reuniting several stars of the original Dracula in a story about a murder on a movie set.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.