The Haunting
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The Haunting is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont, loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s novel "The Haunting of Hill House," about a group of people experiencing terrifying events in a haunted mansion.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Haunting canonical | 3 |
| The Haunting (1999 film) | 1 |
| The Haunting (film series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13541574 — 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 Haunting Context triple: [Jan de Bont, notableWork, The Haunting]
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A.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
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B.
House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 horror film directed by William Castle, best known for its macabre plot about guests spending a night in a supposedly haunted mansion for a cash reward.
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C.
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band known for blending thrash and melodic death metal elements into an aggressive, modern sound.
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D.
The Haunted
The Haunted is the final play in Eugene O’Neill’s trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra, dramatizing the psychological and moral aftermath of a family’s cycle of betrayal, murder, and guilt.
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E.
Haunting of the Innocent
Haunting of the Innocent is a low-budget American horror film centered on a family plagued by a violent supernatural presence in a small town.
- 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 Haunting Target entity description: The Haunting is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont, loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s novel "The Haunting of Hill House," about a group of people experiencing terrifying events in a haunted mansion.
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A.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
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B.
House on Haunted Hill
House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 horror film directed by William Castle, best known for its macabre plot about guests spending a night in a supposedly haunted mansion for a cash reward.
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C.
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band known for blending thrash and melodic death metal elements into an aggressive, modern sound.
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D.
The Haunted
The Haunted is the final play in Eugene O’Neill’s trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra, dramatizing the psychological and moral aftermath of a family’s cycle of betrayal, murder, and guilt.
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E.
Haunting of the Innocent
Haunting of the Innocent is a low-budget American horror film centered on a family plagued by a violent supernatural presence in a small town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | loose adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Haunting of Hill House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercially successful ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. David Marrow
NERFINISHED
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Eleanor Vance NERFINISHED ⓘ Luke Sanderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Theo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Karl Walter Lindenlaub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally negative reviews ⓘ |
| director | Jan de Bont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | DreamWorks Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael Kahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Harlaxton Manor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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psychological horror film ⓘ supernatural film ⓘ |
| isRemakeOf | The Haunting (1963 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Catherine Zeta-Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Liam Neeson NERFINISHED ⓘ Lili Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | haunted house ⓘ |
| notableFor | extensive use of CGI effects ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of people participate in a study at a haunted mansion and experience terrifying supernatural events. ⓘ |
| producer |
Donna Arkoff Roth
NERFINISHED
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Susan Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
DreamWorks Pictures
NERFINISHED
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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1999-07-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 113 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | David Self NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Hill House mansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Catherine Zeta-Jones
NERFINISHED
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Liam Neeson NERFINISHED ⓘ Lili Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
family secrets
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fear ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| title | The Haunting 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 Haunting Description of subject: The Haunting is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Jan de Bont, loosely based on Shirley Jackson’s novel "The Haunting of Hill House," about a group of people experiencing terrifying events in a haunted mansion.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Haunting (film series)
this entity surface form:
The Haunting (1999 film)