Psycho IV: The Beginning
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Psycho IV: The Beginning is a 1990 made-for-television psychological horror film that serves as both a prequel and sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, exploring Norman Bates’s troubled past.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Psycho IV: The Beginning canonical | 7 |
| Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990 TV film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4207056 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Psycho IV: The Beginning Context triple: [Psycho, followedBy, Psycho IV: The Beginning]
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Psycho (1998 film)
Psycho (1998 film) is Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot color remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche.
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B.
Murder House
Murder House is the haunted Los Angeles mansion that serves as the central setting of the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
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C.
Night Slasher
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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D.
Psych: The Movie
Psych: The Movie is a 2017 comedy mystery television film that continues the story of the USA Network series "Psych," reuniting the original cast for a new case.
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E.
Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is a darkly comedic crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh that follows a struggling screenwriter who becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his eccentric friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved dog.
- 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: Psycho IV: The Beginning Target entity description: Psycho IV: The Beginning is a 1990 made-for-television psychological horror film that serves as both a prequel and sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, exploring Norman Bates’s troubled past.
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A.
Psycho (1998 film)
Psycho (1998 film) is Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot color remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic, starring Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche.
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B.
Murder House
Murder House is the haunted Los Angeles mansion that serves as the central setting of the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
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C.
Night Slasher
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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D.
Psych: The Movie
Psych: The Movie is a 2017 comedy mystery television film that continues the story of the USA Network series "Psych," reuniting the original cast for a new case.
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E.
Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is a darkly comedic crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh that follows a struggling screenwriter who becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his eccentric friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved dog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Psycho IV: The Beginning Description of subject: Psycho IV: The Beginning is a 1990 made-for-television psychological horror film that serves as both a prequel and sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, exploring Norman Bates’s troubled past.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.