Frankenstein (1931)
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Frankenstein (1931) is a landmark American horror film directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the iconic monster, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential early sound-era horror movies.
All labels observed (3)
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| Frankenstein (1931 film) | 25 |
| Frankenstein (1931) canonical | 1 |
| film "Frankenstein" (1931) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433403 — 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)
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Target entity: Frankenstein (1931) Context triple: [Universal Pictures, notableFilm, Frankenstein (1931)]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) is a Hollywood horror drama adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, starring Spencer Tracy as the dual titular characters alongside Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994 film)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a 1994 gothic horror film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Robert De Niro as the Creature.
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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film King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933) is a landmark American monster adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic climax atop the Empire State Building.
- 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: Frankenstein (1931) Target entity description: Frankenstein (1931) is a landmark American horror film directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the iconic monster, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential early sound-era horror movies.
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A.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) is a Hollywood horror drama adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, starring Spencer Tracy as the dual titular characters alongside Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner.
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B.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994 film)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a 1994 gothic horror film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Robert De Niro as the Creature.
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C.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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D.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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E.
film King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933) is a landmark American monster adventure film renowned for its groundbreaking special effects and iconic climax atop the Empire State Building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Frankenstein (1931) Description of subject: Frankenstein (1931) is a landmark American horror film directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the iconic monster, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential early sound-era horror movies.
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