The Spider Woman
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The Spider Woman is a 1943 Sherlock Holmes mystery film in which Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce investigate a series of bizarre deaths linked to a sinister femme fatale.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Spider Woman (1943 film) | 2 |
| The Spider Woman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6168429 — 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 Spider Woman Context triple: [Nigel Bruce, appearedIn, The Spider Woman]
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A.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
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B.
The Spider’s Thread
"The Spider’s Thread" is a renowned short story by Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores themes of sin, redemption, and moral choice through a parable-like tale set between hell and paradise.
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C.
The Woman in the Web
The Woman in the Web is a silent-era American film serial, produced in the 1910s, known for its suspenseful, chapter-based storytelling.
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D.
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
The Path to the Nest of Spiders is Italo Calvino’s debut novel, a neorealist coming-of-age story set among Italian partisans during World War II, told from the perspective of a young boy.
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E.
The Smiling Spider
The Smiling Spider is a famous Symbolist charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon depicting a fantastical, grinning arachnid that exemplifies his eerie, dreamlike imagery.
- 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 Spider Woman Target entity description: The Spider Woman is a 1943 Sherlock Holmes mystery film in which Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce investigate a series of bizarre deaths linked to a sinister femme fatale.
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A.
The Spider
The Spider is the English title of the 29th chapter (Surah Al-Ankabut) of the Qur’an, which addresses themes of faith, trials, and the fragility of relying on anything other than God.
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B.
The Spider’s Thread
"The Spider’s Thread" is a renowned short story by Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores themes of sin, redemption, and moral choice through a parable-like tale set between hell and paradise.
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C.
The Woman in the Web
The Woman in the Web is a silent-era American film serial, produced in the 1910s, known for its suspenseful, chapter-based storytelling.
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D.
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
The Path to the Nest of Spiders is Italo Calvino’s debut novel, a neorealist coming-of-age story set among Italian partisans during World War II, told from the perspective of a young boy.
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E.
The Smiling Spider
The Smiling Spider is a famous Symbolist charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon depicting a fantastical, grinning arachnid that exemplifies his eerie, dreamlike imagery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Sherlock Holmes
NERFINISHED
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characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Watson
NERFINISHED
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Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Woody Bredell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Roy William Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Otto Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Watson as portrayed by Nigel Bruce
NERFINISHED
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Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Basil Rathbone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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detective film ⓘ mystery film ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Sherlock Holmes in The Spider Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFemmeFatale | Adrea Spedding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hans J. Salter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Universal Sherlock Holmes film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFocus | series of bizarre deaths ⓘ |
| producer | Roy William Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1943-01-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 62 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Bertram Millhauser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| starring |
Basil Rathbone
NERFINISHED
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Gale Sondergaard NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Bruce 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 Spider Woman Description of subject: The Spider Woman is a 1943 Sherlock Holmes mystery film in which Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce investigate a series of bizarre deaths linked to a sinister femme fatale.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Spider Woman (1943 film)
this entity surface form:
The Spider Woman (1943 film)