Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is a 2009 dark fantasy film about a teenager who becomes involved with a traveling freak show and a clan of vampires, based on the book series by Darren Shan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3290081 — 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)
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Target entity: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Context triple: [Salma Hayek, notableWork, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant]
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A.
The Education of a Vampire
The Education of a Vampire is a lesser-known film project associated with American actress, writer, and filmmaker Flynn Belaine.
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B.
Vampirina
Vampirina is an animated Disney Junior television series that follows a young vampire girl adjusting to life in the human world after moving from Transylvania to Pennsylvania.
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C.
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 horror film about a remote Alaskan town besieged by vampires during a month-long polar night.
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D.
The Circus
The Circus is a 1928 silent comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, following his misadventures in a traveling circus.
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E.
The Circus
The Circus is a historic circular Georgian residential street and architectural landmark in Bath, Somerset, renowned for its elegant townhouses and classical design.
- 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: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Target entity description: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is a 2009 dark fantasy film about a teenager who becomes involved with a traveling freak show and a clan of vampires, based on the book series by Darren Shan.
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A.
The Education of a Vampire
The Education of a Vampire is a lesser-known film project associated with American actress, writer, and filmmaker Flynn Belaine.
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B.
Vampirina
Vampirina is an animated Disney Junior television series that follows a young vampire girl adjusting to life in the human world after moving from Transylvania to Pennsylvania.
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C.
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 horror film about a remote Alaskan town besieged by vampires during a month-long polar night.
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D.
The Circus
The Circus is a 1928 silent comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, following his misadventures in a traveling circus.
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E.
The Circus
The Circus is a historic circular Georgian residential street and architectural landmark in Bath, Somerset, renowned for its elegant townhouses and classical design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark fantasy film
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fantasy film ⓘ film ⓘ supernatural film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Cirque du Freak
GENERATED
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The Saga of Darren Shan GENERATED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Darren Shan GENERATED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Chris Massoglia
GENERATED
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Jessica Carlson GENERATED ⓘ John C. Reilly GENERATED ⓘ Josh Hutcherson GENERATED ⓘ Ken Watanabe GENERATED ⓘ Michael Cerveris GENERATED ⓘ Patrick Fugit GENERATED ⓘ Ray Stevenson GENERATED ⓘ Salma Hayek GENERATED ⓘ Willem Dafoe GENERATED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | J. Michael Muro GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Paul Weitz GENERATED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Leslie Jones GENERATED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New Orleans GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
GENERATED
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dark fantasy GENERATED ⓘ fantasy film GENERATED ⓘ horror film GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coming of age
GENERATED
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destiny GENERATED ⓘ friendship GENERATED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Darren Shan
GENERATED
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Larten Crepsley GENERATED ⓘ Steve Leonard GENERATED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 GENERATED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stephen Trask GENERATED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
conflict between vampires and vampaneze
GENERATED
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teenager joins a traveling freak show GENERATED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Lauren Shuler Donner
GENERATED
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Paul Weitz GENERATED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Donners’ Company
GENERATED
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Relativity Media GENERATED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-10-23 GENERATED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 GENERATED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 109 GENERATED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Brian Helgeland
GENERATED
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Paul Weitz GENERATED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| titleCharacter | The Vampire’s Assistant GENERATED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Description of subject: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is a 2009 dark fantasy film about a teenager who becomes involved with a traveling freak show and a clan of vampires, based on the book series by Darren Shan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.