Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)

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American film dark fantasy film film horror film musical film

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 dark musical horror film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim stage musical, starring Johnny Depp as a vengeful barber in Victorian London.

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Label	Occurrences
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	21
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) canonical	10
Sweeney Todd	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T504968 — 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: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)
Context triple: [Tim Burton, notableWork, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)]

A. Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a 1999 romantic comedy film set in London, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, that follows the unlikely love story between a shy bookshop owner and a famous American actress.
B. Gypsy
Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.
C. Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
D. Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, known for its lavish Victorian production design, ghostly atmosphere, and twisted family drama.
E. Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful is a gothic horror drama television series that intertwines classic literary characters like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray in a dark, Victorian-era narrative.
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: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)
Target entity description: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 dark musical horror film adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim stage musical, starring Johnny Depp as a vengeful barber in Victorian London.

A. Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a 1999 romantic comedy film set in London, starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, that follows the unlikely love story between a shy bookshop owner and a famous American actress.
B. Gypsy
Gypsy is a celebrated Broadway musical—later adapted into film and television—based on the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for its powerful score and the iconic stage role of her domineering mother, Mama Rose.
C. Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
D. Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, known for its lavish Victorian production design, ghostly atmosphere, and twisted family drama.
E. Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful is a gothic horror drama television series that intertwines classic literary characters like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray in a dark, Victorian-era narrative.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film ⓘ dark fantasy film ⓘ film ⓘ horror film ⓘ musical film ⓘ
award	Academy Award for Best Art Direction ⓘ
basedOn	Sweeney Todd (stage production) ⓘ surface form: Sweeney Todd (Victorian penny dreadful character) Sweeney Todd (stage production) ⓘ surface form: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (musical)
characterOccupation	barber ⓘ
characterTrait	vengeful ⓘ
cinematographer	Dariusz Wolski ⓘ
composer	Stephen Sondheim ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Tim Burton ⓘ
distributor	DreamWorks Pictures ⓘ Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ
editor	Chris Lebenzon ⓘ
genre	drama ⓘ horror ⓘ musical ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
leadRole	Johnny Depp ⓘ
lyricist	Stephen Sondheim ⓘ
mainCharacter	Anthony Hope ⓘ Johanna Barker ⓘ Judge Turpin ⓘ Mrs. Lovett ⓘ Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sweeney Todd Toby ⓘ
narrativeLocation	Fleet Street ⓘ
nominatedFor	Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ Academy Award for Best Costume Design ⓘ
producer	Laurie MacDonald ⓘ Richard D. Zanuck ⓘ Walter F. Parkes ⓘ
productionCompany	DreamWorks Pictures ⓘ The Zanuck Company ⓘ Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ
releaseDate	2007-12-21 ⓘ
releaseYear	2007 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	116 ⓘ
screenwriter	John Logan ⓘ
settingPeriod	Victorian era ⓘ
settingPlace	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
starredActor	Alan Rickman ⓘ Ed Sanders ⓘ Helena Bonham Carter ⓘ Jamie Campbell Bower ⓘ Jayne Wisener ⓘ Johnny Depp ⓘ Sacha Baron Cohen ⓘ Timothy Spall ⓘ
theme	cannibalism ⓘ murder ⓘ revenge ⓘ

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Referenced by (33)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tim Burton → notableWork → Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) ⓘ

Tim Burton → directed → Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) ⓘ

Helena Bonham Carter → notableWork → Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) ⓘ

Johnny Depp → notableWork → Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) ⓘ