The Staircase
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The Staircase is a true-crime drama miniseries that chronicles the suspicious death of Kathleen Peterson and the ensuing murder trial of her husband, novelist Michael Peterson.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Staircase canonical | 6 |
| The Staircase (Mystery) | 3 |
| The Staircase (miniseries) | 2 |
| The Staircase Murders | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6080994 — 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 Staircase Context triple: [Toni Collette, notableWork, The Staircase]
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A.
Backstairs Passage
Backstairs Passage is a narrow strait in South Australia that separates Kangaroo Island from the mainland.
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B.
The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened is a political memoir detailing former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s insider account of the Trump administration’s foreign policy and internal decision-making.
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C.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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D.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
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E.
The Sealed Room
The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
- 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 Staircase Target entity description: The Staircase is a true-crime drama miniseries that chronicles the suspicious death of Kathleen Peterson and the ensuing murder trial of her husband, novelist Michael Peterson.
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A.
Backstairs Passage
Backstairs Passage is a narrow strait in South Australia that separates Kangaroo Island from the mainland.
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B.
The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened is a political memoir detailing former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s insider account of the Trump administration’s foreign policy and internal decision-making.
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C.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a memoir by religious historian Karen Armstrong that recounts her journey from life in a Catholic convent through illness and crisis to a renewed, more expansive understanding of faith.
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D.
The Spiral Staircase
The Spiral Staircase is a classic 1946 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Siodmak, about a mute woman terrorized by a serial killer in a secluded mansion.
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E.
The Sealed Room
The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television miniseries ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Michael Peterson murder case
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death of Kathleen Peterson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| distributor | HBO Max NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2022-06-09 ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
true crime ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Colin Firth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dane DeHaan NERFINISHED ⓘ Juliette Binoche NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Stuhlbarg NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia DeJonge NERFINISHED ⓘ Parker Posey NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosemarie DeWitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophie Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Toni Collette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormat | miniseries ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
criminal trial
ⓘ
family dynamics ⓘ homicide investigation ⓘ |
| locationOfStory | Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Kathleen Peterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
murder trial of Michael Peterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
suspicious death of Kathleen Peterson ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 8 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOn | television ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO Max NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Caitlin Atwater
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clayton Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ David Rudolf NERFINISHED ⓘ Freda Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathleen Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Ratliff NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Ratliff NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Annapurna Television
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blumhouse Television NERFINISHED ⓘ HBO Max NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2022 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
2000s
ⓘ
2001 ⓘ |
| startTime | 2022-05-05 ⓘ |
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 Staircase Description of subject: The Staircase is a true-crime drama miniseries that chronicles the suspicious death of Kathleen Peterson and the ensuing murder trial of her husband, novelist Michael Peterson.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Staircase Murders
this entity surface form:
The Staircase (miniseries)
this entity surface form:
The Staircase (miniseries)
this entity surface form:
The Staircase (Mystery)
this entity surface form:
The Staircase (Mystery)
this entity surface form:
The Staircase (Mystery)