The Black Sleep
E126760
The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Black Sleep canonical | 19 |
| The Black Sleep (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070888 — 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 Black Sleep Context triple: [Jarma Lewis, notableWork, The Black Sleep]
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A.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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B.
Nightfall
"Nightfall" is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the psychological and societal collapse of a civilization experiencing darkness and a view of the stars for the first time.
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C.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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D.
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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E.
Against the Fall of Night
Against the Fall of Night is a classic early science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores a far-future, dying Earth and humanity’s quest to transcend its long decline.
- 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 Black Sleep Target entity description: The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
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A.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
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B.
Nightfall
"Nightfall" is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the psychological and societal collapse of a civilization experiencing darkness and a view of the stars for the first time.
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C.
The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
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D.
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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E.
Against the Fall of Night
Against the Fall of Night is a classic early science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores a far-future, dying Earth and humanity’s quest to transcend its long decline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Black Sleep Description of subject: The Black Sleep is a 1956 American horror film featuring a mad surgeon who experiments on human brains, notable for its cast of classic horror stars.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.