The Wicker Man (1973 film)
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The Wicker Man (1973 film) is a 1973 British folk horror cult classic about a devout police sergeant investigating a pagan island community, widely acclaimed for its unsettling atmosphere and Christopher Lee’s iconic performance.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Wicker Man | 8 |
| The Wicker Man (1973 film) canonical | 3 |
| The Wicker Man (2006 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T856838 — 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 Wicker Man (1973 film) Context triple: [Christopher Lee, notableWork, The Wicker Man (1973 film)]
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A.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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D.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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E.
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American HBO television drama series set during the Great Depression that blends dark fantasy, mysticism, and a traveling carnival backdrop to explore an epic struggle between good and evil.
- 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 Wicker Man (1973 film) Target entity description: The Wicker Man (1973 film) is a 1973 British folk horror cult classic about a devout police sergeant investigating a pagan island community, widely acclaimed for its unsettling atmosphere and Christopher Lee’s iconic performance.
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A.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller film about a terrorist plot to attack the Super Bowl, directed by John Frankenheimer and based on Thomas Harris's novel of the same name.
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C.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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D.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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E.
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American HBO television drama series set during the Great Depression that blends dark fantasy, mysticism, and a traveling carnival backdrop to explore an epic struggle between good and evil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Wicker Man (1973 film) Description of subject: The Wicker Man (1973 film) is a 1973 British folk horror cult classic about a devout police sergeant investigating a pagan island community, widely acclaimed for its unsettling atmosphere and Christopher Lee’s iconic performance.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man (2006 film)
subject surface form:
Christopher Lee
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man
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The Wicker Man
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The Wicker Man
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man
this entity surface form:
The Wicker Man