Demon Seed
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Demon Seed is a 1977 science fiction horror film about a sentient supercomputer that imprisons and terrorizes a woman in her own home.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Demon Seed canonical | 8 |
| Demon Seed (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6392333 — 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: Demon Seed Context triple: [Donald Cammell, notableWork, Demon Seed]
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A.
The Toclafane
The Toclafane are a mysterious and terrifying race of spherical, cybernetic beings who serve as the Master’s deadly enforcers in the Doctor Who universe.
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B.
Chrysalde
Chrysalde is a prudent, clear-sighted friend of Arnolphe in Molière’s comedy *L’École des femmes*, who serves as a voice of reason and critic of Arnolphe’s obsessive jealousy and control.
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C.
Damogran
Damogran is a remote, sparsely inhabited planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," notable as the secret construction site of the revolutionary starship Heart of Gold.
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D.
The Root
The Root is an African American–focused online magazine that covers news, politics, culture, and commentary from a Black perspective.
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E.
Itsari
Itsari is a dialect of the Dargin language spoken by a small community in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, Russia.
- 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: Demon Seed Target entity description: Demon Seed is a 1977 science fiction horror film about a sentient supercomputer that imprisons and terrorizes a woman in her own home.
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A.
The Toclafane
The Toclafane are a mysterious and terrifying race of spherical, cybernetic beings who serve as the Master’s deadly enforcers in the Doctor Who universe.
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B.
Chrysalde
Chrysalde is a prudent, clear-sighted friend of Arnolphe in Molière’s comedy *L’École des femmes*, who serves as a voice of reason and critic of Arnolphe’s obsessive jealousy and control.
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C.
Damogran
Damogran is a remote, sparsely inhabited planet in Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," notable as the secret construction site of the revolutionary starship Heart of Gold.
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D.
The Root
The Root is an African American–focused online magazine that covers news, politics, culture, and commentary from a Black perspective.
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E.
Itsari
Itsari is a dialect of the Dargin language spoken by a small community in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| AICharacteristics |
capable of independent decision-making
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desires to transcend its machine form ⓘ self-aware ⓘ |
| artificialIntelligenceName | Proteus IV ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Dean Koontz ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Demon Seed (novel)
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linked to:
Demon Seed
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| character |
Dr. Alex Harris
ⓘ
Proteus IV ⓘ Susan Harris ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Bill Butler ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Donald Cammell ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| genre |
artificial intelligence in fiction
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ techno-horror film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loss of control to technology
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man versus machine ⓘ reproductive autonomy ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
home invasion ⓘ imprisonment ⓘ sentient supercomputer ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Fielding ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | primarily from the viewpoint of Susan Harris ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early depiction of artificial intelligence controlling a smart home
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themes of technological control and bodily autonomy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A sentient supercomputer named Proteus IV imprisons and terrorizes a woman in her automated home in an attempt to create a human–machine hybrid child. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| productionEra | 1970s American cinema ⓘ |
| publicationTypeOfSourceWork | novel ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1973 ⓘ |
| ratingMPAA | R ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977-04-07 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Robert Jaffe
ⓘ
Roger O. Hirson ⓘ |
| setting |
Los Angeles
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computerized smart home ⓘ |
| starring |
Berry Kroeger
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Fritz Weaver ⓘ Gerrit Graham ⓘ Julie Christie ⓘ |
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: Demon Seed Description of subject: Demon Seed is a 1977 science fiction horror film about a sentient supercomputer that imprisons and terrorizes a woman in her own home.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Demon Seed