Exorcist: The Beginning
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Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 supernatural horror film that serves as a prequel to the classic 1973 movie The Exorcist, exploring Father Merrin’s first encounter with demonic evil.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Exorcist: The Beginning canonical | 6 |
| Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist | 4 |
| Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist | 1 |
| The Exorcist franchise | 1 |
| The Exorcist: The Beginning | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3433292 — 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: Exorcist: The Beginning Context triple: [Renny Harlin, notableWork, Exorcist: The Beginning]
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A.
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 supernatural horror film and the controversial sequel to the landmark 1973 film The Exorcist.
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B.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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C.
The Exorcist III
The Exorcist III is a 1990 supernatural horror film written and directed by William Peter Blatty that continues the story of demonic evil and investigation introduced in the original The Exorcist.
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D.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 supernatural horror courtroom drama film that blends exorcism terror with legal thriller elements, loosely inspired by the real-life case of Anneliese Michel.
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E.
The Nun
The Nun is a 1966 French drama film directed by Jacques Rivette, adapted from Denis Diderot’s novel about a young woman forced into convent life and struggling against religious oppression.
- 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: Exorcist: The Beginning Target entity description: Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 supernatural horror film that serves as a prequel to the classic 1973 movie The Exorcist, exploring Father Merrin’s first encounter with demonic evil.
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A.
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 supernatural horror film and the controversial sequel to the landmark 1973 film The Exorcist.
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B.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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C.
The Exorcist III
The Exorcist III is a 1990 supernatural horror film written and directed by William Peter Blatty that continues the story of demonic evil and investigation introduced in the original The Exorcist.
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D.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 supernatural horror courtroom drama film that blends exorcism terror with legal thriller elements, loosely inspired by the real-life case of Anneliese Michel.
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E.
The Nun
The Nun is a 1966 French drama film directed by Jacques Rivette, adapted from Denis Diderot’s novel about a young woman forced into convent life and struggling against religious oppression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Exorcist: The Beginning Description of subject: Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 supernatural horror film that serves as a prequel to the classic 1973 movie The Exorcist, exploring Father Merrin’s first encounter with demonic evil.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
this entity surface form:
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
this entity surface form:
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
this entity surface form:
The Exorcist franchise
this entity surface form:
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
this entity surface form:
The Exorcist: The Beginning
subject surface form:
Renny Harlin
this entity surface form:
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist