The Stepfather
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The Stepfather is a 2009 psychological thriller film about a seemingly perfect man who hides a deadly, murderous past from his unsuspecting new family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Stepfather canonical | 2 |
| Stepfather II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5699652 — 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 Stepfather Context triple: [Jon Tenney, notableWork, The Stepfather]
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A.
The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film directed by Wes Craven that became notorious for its graphic violence and controversial themes.
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B.
Night Trap
Night Trap is a controversial 1992 interactive movie horror video game known for its full-motion video gameplay and its central role in early 1990s debates over video game violence and content regulation.
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C.
Family Plot
Family Plot is a 1976 dark comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, known as his final feature and starring Bruce Dern in a tale of psychics, kidnappings, and intersecting cons.
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D.
I Spit on Your Grave
I Spit on Your Grave is a controversial 1978 American exploitation horror film, often cited as a seminal and divisive example of the rape-and-revenge subgenre.
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E.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
- 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 Stepfather Target entity description: The Stepfather is a 2009 psychological thriller film about a seemingly perfect man who hides a deadly, murderous past from his unsuspecting new family.
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A.
The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left is a 1972 American exploitation horror film directed by Wes Craven that became notorious for its graphic violence and controversial themes.
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B.
Night Trap
Night Trap is a controversial 1992 interactive movie horror video game known for its full-motion video gameplay and its central role in early 1990s debates over video game violence and content regulation.
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C.
Family Plot
Family Plot is a 1976 dark comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, known as his final feature and starring Bruce Dern in a tale of psychics, kidnappings, and intersecting cons.
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D.
I Spit on Your Grave
I Spit on Your Grave is a controversial 1978 American exploitation horror film, often cited as a seminal and divisive example of the rape-and-revenge subgenre.
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E.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Stepfather (1987 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
characters created by Donald E. Westlake ⓘ |
| character |
David Harris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kelly Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Patrick Cady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Charlie Clouser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Nelson McCormick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Sony Pictures Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Screen Gems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Eric L. Beason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
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| genre |
horror thriller
ⓘ
psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasTagline | This fall, Daddy’s home. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
domestic abuse
ⓘ
family violence ⓘ identity deception ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| partOf | The Stepfather film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A seemingly perfect man hides a murderous past while integrating himself into a new family as their stepfather. ⓘ |
| producer |
Greg Mooradian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guy Oseary NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Gran Via Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Imprint Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ Screen Gems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-10-16 ⓘ |
| remakeOf | The Stepfather (1987 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtime | 101 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | J.S. Cardone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Amber Heard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dylan Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Tenney NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Linehan Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ Penn Badgley NERFINISHED ⓘ Sela Ward 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 Stepfather Description of subject: The Stepfather is a 2009 psychological thriller film about a seemingly perfect man who hides a deadly, murderous past from his unsuspecting new family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stepfather II