The Beast with Five Fingers
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The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 atmospheric horror film in which Peter Lorre stars in a macabre tale about a disembodied hand terrorizing a secluded Italian mansion.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Beast with Five Fingers canonical | 12 |
| "The Beast with Five Fingers" | 1 |
| The Beast with Five Fingers (short story) | 1 |
| The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T317483 — 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 Beast with Five Fingers Context triple: [Peter Lorre, notableWork, The Beast with Five Fingers]
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A.
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.
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B.
The Soul of the Ape
The Soul of the Ape is a pioneering early 20th-century work of animal psychology and ethology in which Eugène Marais explores the behavior and inner life of primates.
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C.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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D.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
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E.
In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
- 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 Beast with Five Fingers Target entity description: The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 atmospheric horror film in which Peter Lorre stars in a macabre tale about a disembodied hand terrorizing a secluded Italian mansion.
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A.
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.
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B.
The Soul of the Ape
The Soul of the Ape is a pioneering early 20th-century work of animal psychology and ethology in which Eugène Marais explores the behavior and inner life of primates.
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C.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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D.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
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E.
In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Beast with Five Fingers Description of subject: The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 atmospheric horror film in which Peter Lorre stars in a macabre tale about a disembodied hand terrorizing a secluded Italian mansion.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Beast with Five Fingers (short story)
this entity surface form:
The Beast with Five Fingers and Other Tales
this entity surface form:
"The Beast with Five Fingers"