Frankenstein
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Frankenstein is a classic 1931 Universal horror film, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, that popularized the iconic cinematic image of Mary Shelley’s monster.
All labels observed (1)
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| Frankenstein canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2517083 — 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: Frankenstein Context triple: [Frankenstein (1931 film), title, Frankenstein]
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Shelley that tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a sentient creature in a groundbreaking but tragic experiment, and is widely regarded as a foundational work of science fiction and horror literature.
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I, Frankenstein
I, Frankenstein is a 2014 dark fantasy action film that reimagines Mary Shelley's monster amid a war between gargoyles and demons in a modern gothic setting.
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The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British Hammer Horror film that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story and helped launch Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to international horror stardom.
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the Creature
The Creature is the tragic, intelligent being brought to life by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's classic Gothic novel, often portrayed as a misunderstood monster grappling with isolation and a longing for acceptance.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells that explores themes of vivisection, morality, and the boundaries between humans and animals on a remote island ruled by a mad scientist.
- 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: Frankenstein Target entity description: Frankenstein is a classic 1931 Universal horror film, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, that popularized the iconic cinematic image of Mary Shelley’s monster.
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A.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Shelley that tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a sentient creature in a groundbreaking but tragic experiment, and is widely regarded as a foundational work of science fiction and horror literature.
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B.
I, Frankenstein
I, Frankenstein is a 2014 dark fantasy action film that reimagines Mary Shelley's monster amid a war between gargoyles and demons in a modern gothic setting.
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C.
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British Hammer Horror film that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story and helped launch Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to international horror stardom.
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D.
the Creature
The Creature is the tragic, intelligent being brought to life by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's classic Gothic novel, often portrayed as a misunderstood monster grappling with isolation and a longing for acceptance.
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E.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells that explores themes of vivisection, morality, and the boundaries between humans and animals on a remote island ruled by a mad scientist.
- 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: Frankenstein Description of subject: Frankenstein is a classic 1931 Universal horror film, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, that popularized the iconic cinematic image of Mary Shelley’s monster.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frankenstein (1931 film)
subject surface form:
Dwight Frye
subject surface form:
Frankenstein (1931 film)