The Night the Prowler
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The Night the Prowler is a 1978 Australian dark comedy film directed by Jim Sharman and written by Patrick White, adapted from White’s short story of the same name.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Night the Prowler canonical | 4 |
| The Night, the Prowler | 2 |
| The Night the Prowler (short story) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5195040 — 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 Night the Prowler Context triple: [Geoff Burton, notableWork, The Night the Prowler]
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A.
Midnight Caller
Midnight Caller is an American late-1980s crime drama television series centered on a former police detective who becomes a radio talk-show host tackling crime and social issues on the air.
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B.
Night Stalker
Night Stalker is a short-lived 2005 American supernatural crime drama television series, loosely inspired by the 1970s show Kolchak: The Night Stalker, in which Gabrielle Union co-starred.
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C.
Midnight Marauders
Midnight Marauders is a critically acclaimed 1993 hip-hop album by A Tribe Called Quest, celebrated for its jazzy production, intricate lyricism, and influential role in alternative rap.
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D.
Night Hunters
Night Hunters is a nocturnal animal exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden featuring predators adapted to life in the dark.
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E.
In the Night
"In the Night" is a dark, synth-driven R&B/pop song by The Weeknd that explores themes of trauma and survival, released as a single from his album *Beauty Behind the Madness*.
- 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 Night the Prowler Target entity description: The Night the Prowler is a 1978 Australian dark comedy film directed by Jim Sharman and written by Patrick White, adapted from White’s short story of the same name.
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A.
Midnight Caller
Midnight Caller is an American late-1980s crime drama television series centered on a former police detective who becomes a radio talk-show host tackling crime and social issues on the air.
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B.
Night Stalker
Night Stalker is a short-lived 2005 American supernatural crime drama television series, loosely inspired by the 1970s show Kolchak: The Night Stalker, in which Gabrielle Union co-starred.
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C.
Midnight Marauders
Midnight Marauders is a critically acclaimed 1993 hip-hop album by A Tribe Called Quest, celebrated for its jazzy production, intricate lyricism, and influential role in alternative rap.
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D.
Night Hunters
Night Hunters is a nocturnal animal exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden featuring predators adapted to life in the dark.
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E.
In the Night
"In the Night" is a dark, synth-driven R&B/pop song by The Weeknd that explores themes of trauma and survival, released as a single from his album *Beauty Behind the Madness*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | short story ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Patrick White ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Night the Prowler (short story)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Night the Prowler
|
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| director |
James Sharman
ⓘ
Jim Sharman ⓘ |
| genre | dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasOriginalWorkTitle | The Night the Prowler ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| productionCountry | Australia ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Patrick White ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthor | Patrick White ⓘ |
| title | The Night the Prowler ⓘ |
| workType | feature film ⓘ |
| writer | Patrick White ⓘ |
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 Night the Prowler Description of subject: The Night the Prowler is a 1978 Australian dark comedy film directed by Jim Sharman and written by Patrick White, adapted from White’s short story of the same name.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Night the Prowler
linked to: The Night the Prowler
linked to: The Night the Prowler