Tarantula
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Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction horror film featuring a giant mutant spider terrorizing a desert town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tarantula canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5297733 — 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: Tarantula Context triple: [Jack Arnold, notableWork, Tarantula]
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A.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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B.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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C.
Spiders
Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
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D.
Spiders
The Spiders are the athletic teams representing the University of Richmond in collegiate sports.
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E.
Centipede
"Centipede" is a 1984 R&B single by Rebbie Jackson, written and produced by Michael Jackson, that became her signature hit.
- 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: Tarantula Target entity description: Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction horror film featuring a giant mutant spider terrorizing a desert town.
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A.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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B.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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C.
Spiders
Spiders was the nickname of the Cleveland Spiders, a late-19th-century Major League Baseball team best known for its historically poor 1899 season.
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D.
Spiders
The Spiders are the athletic teams representing the University of Richmond in collegiate sports.
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E.
Centipede
"Centipede" is a 1984 R&B single by Rebbie Jackson, written and produced by Michael Jackson, that became her signature hit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | teleplay No Food for Thought ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ClintEastwoodRole | uncredited jet squadron leader ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jack Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Universal Pictures
ⓘ
Universal-International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresActor | Clint Eastwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_(film) ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | giant mutant tarantula ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Heinz Roemheld
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Mancini NERFINISHED ⓘ Herman Stein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a giant spider created by a growth serum ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1950s American monster movies ⓘ |
| producer | William Alland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal-International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1955-11-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Martin Berkeley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert M. Fresco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingDescription | desert town ⓘ |
| specialEffectsBy | Clifford Stine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starred |
John Agar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leo G. Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ Mara Corday NERFINISHED ⓘ Nestor Paiva NERFINISHED ⓘ Ross Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Jack Arnold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert M. Fresco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tarantula Description of subject: Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction horror film featuring a giant mutant spider terrorizing a desert town.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.