The Maze
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The Maze is a 1953 atmospheric horror film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, about a man who inherits a mysterious Scottish castle dominated by a sinister hedge maze.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Maze canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4484341 — 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 Maze Context triple: [The Maze (1953 film), title, The Maze]
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A.
The Maze
The Maze is a remote, rugged, and labyrinthine backcountry district of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, known for its challenging access, intricate canyons, and solitude.
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B.
The Maze
"The Maze" is a prominent musical piece from the Westworld television series score, known for its atmospheric, suspenseful tone that reflects the show's themes of consciousness and mystery.
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the Maze
The Maze was the informal name for Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland, a high-security facility central to the Troubles and known for housing paramilitary prisoners and hunger strikers.
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The Man in the Maze
The Man in the Maze is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that follows a telepathically altered diplomat who retreats into an alien-built labyrinth to escape humanity’s tormenting thoughts.
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The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken 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: The Maze Target entity description: The Maze is a 1953 atmospheric horror film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, about a man who inherits a mysterious Scottish castle dominated by a sinister hedge maze.
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A.
The Maze
The Maze is a remote, rugged, and labyrinthine backcountry district of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, known for its challenging access, intricate canyons, and solitude.
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B.
The Maze
"The Maze" is a prominent musical piece from the Westworld television series score, known for its atmospheric, suspenseful tone that reflects the show's themes of consciousness and mystery.
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C.
the Maze
The Maze was the informal name for Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland, a high-security facility central to the Troubles and known for housing paramilitary prisoners and hunger strikers.
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D.
The Man in the Maze
The Man in the Maze is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg that follows a telepathically altered diplomat who retreats into an alien-built labyrinth to escape humanity’s tormenting thoughts.
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E.
The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
3D film
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American film ⓘ black-and-white film ⓘ film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| artDirector | William Cameron Menzies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
In a novel by Maurice Sandoz
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The Maze (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Hugh Latimer
NERFINISHED
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John Dodsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Katherine Emery NERFINISHED ⓘ Liliane Montevecchi NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Pate NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Carlson NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harry Neumann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | William Cameron Menzies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Allied Artists Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Roy V. Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1950s American horror cinema ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | atmospheric set design by William Cameron Menzies ⓘ |
| format | stereoscopic 3D ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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mystery ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
inheritance of a cursed estate
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transformation and secrecy ⓘ |
| musicBy | Marlin Skiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | use of 3D cinematography in early 1950s horror ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man inherits a mysterious Scottish castle dominated by a sinister hedge maze and begins to exhibit strange behavior. ⓘ |
| producer | Richard Heermance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Allied Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1953-07-26 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Daniel Ullman
NERFINISHED
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Leonard Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingFeature |
Scottish castle
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hedge maze ⓘ |
| stars |
Katherine Emery
NERFINISHED
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Richard Carlson NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Maze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Maze Description of subject: The Maze is a 1953 atmospheric horror film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, about a man who inherits a mysterious Scottish castle dominated by a sinister hedge maze.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.