Night Slasher
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Night Slasher is the brutal serial killer and cult leader who serves as the primary villain opposing Sylvester Stallone’s character in the 1986 action film "Cobra."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Night Slasher canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2771117 — 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: Night Slasher Context triple: [Cobra, mainAntagonist, Night Slasher]
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A.
Darkman
Darkman is a 1990 superhero horror film directed by Sam Raimi, known for its dark tone, inventive visual style, and Liam Neeson's portrayal of a disfigured scientist seeking revenge.
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B.
Kyojin Killer
Kyojin Killer is the famous nickname of Japanese baseball pitcher and manager Senichi Hoshino, earned for his fierce success against the Yomiuri Giants.
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C.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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D.
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is a 1964 film noir–style thriller starring Bette Davis in dual roles as estranged twin sisters entangled in murder and identity theft.
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E.
Night Trap
Night Trap is a controversial 1992 interactive movie horror video game known for its full-motion video gameplay and its central role in early 1990s debates over video game violence and content regulation.
- 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: Night Slasher Target entity description: Night Slasher is the brutal serial killer and cult leader who serves as the primary villain opposing Sylvester Stallone’s character in the 1986 action film "Cobra."
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A.
Darkman
Darkman is a 1990 superhero horror film directed by Sam Raimi, known for its dark tone, inventive visual style, and Liam Neeson's portrayal of a disfigured scientist seeking revenge.
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B.
Kyojin Killer
Kyojin Killer is the famous nickname of Japanese baseball pitcher and manager Senichi Hoshino, earned for his fierce success against the Yomiuri Giants.
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C.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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D.
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is a 1964 film noir–style thriller starring Bette Davis in dual roles as estranged twin sisters entangled in murder and identity theft.
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E.
Night Trap
Night Trap is a controversial 1992 interactive movie horror video game known for its full-motion video gameplay and its central role in early 1990s debates over video game violence and content regulation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| affiliation | New World cult ⓘ |
| alignment | evil ⓘ |
| antagonistOf |
Marion Cobretti
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Sylvester Stallone's character in Cobra ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cobra ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | 80s action cinema ⓘ |
| characterType |
cult leader
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psychopathic killer ⓘ |
| conflict | New World cult vs. law enforcement ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
George P. Cosmatos
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Sylvester Stallone ⓘ |
| createdFor | feature film ⓘ |
| decadeOfWork | 1980s ⓘ |
| filmGenre |
action
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crime ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| finalOutcome | killed by Marion Cobretti ⓘ |
| genreRole | slasher villain ⓘ |
| hasFandom | cult film fans of Cobra ⓘ |
| kills | multiple civilians in Cobra ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leaderOf | New World cult ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | embodiment of violent crime wave in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
association with an axe-and-circle symbol
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brutal killing methods ⓘ ritualistic murders ⓘ |
| notableFor |
menacing physical presence
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minimal dialogue but intense performance ⓘ |
| notableScene |
final showdown in factory
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hospital attack sequence ⓘ |
| occupation | serial killer ⓘ |
| partOf | Cobra (film) universe ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brian Thompson ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork |
Warner Bros. Pictures
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surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| role | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| weaponUsed |
knife
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shotgun ⓘ |
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: Night Slasher Description of subject: Night Slasher is the brutal serial killer and cult leader who serves as the primary villain opposing Sylvester Stallone’s character in the 1986 action film "Cobra."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.