The Terror
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"The Terror" is a 1927 crime thriller play by Edgar Wallace that blends mystery and horror elements in a story about a series of murders in an old country house.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Terror canonical | 2 |
| The Terror (1928 film) | 2 |
| The Terror (1938 film) | 1 |
| The Terror (1940 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1262777 — 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 Terror Context triple: [Edgar Wallace, notableWork, The Terror]
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A.
The Terror
The Terror is a historical drama television series that blends supernatural horror with the real-life doomed Arctic expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the mid-19th century.
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B.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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C.
The North Water
The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
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D.
Terra Nova
Terra Nova is a major offshore oil field and production facility located on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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E.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
- 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 Terror Target entity description: "The Terror" is a 1927 crime thriller play by Edgar Wallace that blends mystery and horror elements in a story about a series of murders in an old country house.
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A.
The Terror
The Terror is a historical drama television series that blends supernatural horror with the real-life doomed Arctic expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the mid-19th century.
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B.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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C.
The North Water
The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
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D.
Terra Nova
Terra Nova is a major offshore oil field and production facility located on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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E.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller play
ⓘ
horror play ⓘ mystery play ⓘ play ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Terror
ⓘ
surface form:
The Terror (novelisation)
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| form | stage play ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
horror ⓘ mystery ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Terror
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Terror (1928 film)
The Terror self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Terror (1938 film)
The Terror self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Terror (1940 film)
|
| hasTitle | The Terror ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
crime investigation
ⓘ
fear and suspense ⓘ serial murders ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor | combining mystery and horror elements ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Edgar Wallace
ⓘ
surface form:
Edgar Wallace plays
|
| publicationYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| setting |
England
ⓘ
old country house ⓘ |
| workPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| writer | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
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 Terror Description of subject: "The Terror" is a 1927 crime thriller play by Edgar Wallace that blends mystery and horror elements in a story about a series of murders in an old country house.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Terror (1928 film)
this entity surface form:
The Terror (1938 film)
this entity surface form:
The Terror (1940 film)
this entity surface form:
The Terror (1928 film)