The Gorilla (1927 silent film)

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The Gorilla (1927 silent film) is an American silent mystery-comedy film, now considered lost, that blends elements of crime, horror, and farce involving a series of murders attributed to a mysterious ape-like killer.

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The Gorilla (1927 film)	2
The Gorilla (1930 film)	2
The Gorilla (1927 silent film) canonical	1
The Gorilla (1939 film)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15184800 — 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 Gorilla (1927 silent film)
Context triple: [The Gorilla, adaptedAs, The Gorilla (1927 silent film)]

A. Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
B. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
C. The Romance of Tarzan (1918 film)
The Romance of Tarzan is a 1918 American silent adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan in one of his earliest screen appearances.
D. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
"Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" is a 1952 low-budget comedy-horror film best known for starring Bela Lugosi and a Martin and Lewis imitation duo in a jungle mad-scientist plot.
E. film King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933) is a landmark American monster adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic climax atop the Empire State Building.
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 Gorilla (1927 silent film)
Target entity description: The Gorilla (1927 silent film) is an American silent mystery-comedy film, now considered lost, that blends elements of crime, horror, and farce involving a series of murders attributed to a mysterious ape-like killer.

A. Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
B. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
C. The Romance of Tarzan (1918 film)
The Romance of Tarzan is a 1918 American silent adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan in one of his earliest screen appearances.
D. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
"Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" is a 1952 low-budget comedy-horror film best known for starring Bela Lugosi and a Martin and Lewis imitation duo in a jungle mad-scientist plot.
E. film King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933) is a landmark American monster adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic climax atop the Empire State Building.
F. None of above. chosen