The Gate
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The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Gate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6959839 — 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 Gate Context triple: [Stephen Dorff, notableWork, The Gate]
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A.
New Gate
New Gate is one of the historic entrances in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, providing access to the Christian Quarter and reflecting late Ottoman-era modifications to the ancient fortifications.
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B.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
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C.
Crossgates
Crossgates is a small village in Fife, Scotland, situated near the town of Dalgety Bay.
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D.
The Gatekeeper
The Gatekeeper is the stage name of a member of Gravediggaz, the influential horrorcore hip hop group known for its dark, horror-themed lyrics and production.
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E.
Thunder Gate
Thunder Gate is the iconic outer entrance gate to Tokyo’s Sensō-ji Temple, famous for its massive red lantern and statues of protective deities.
- 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 Gate Target entity description: The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
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A.
New Gate
New Gate is one of the historic entrances in the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, providing access to the Christian Quarter and reflecting late Ottoman-era modifications to the ancient fortifications.
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B.
The Door
"The Door" is a pivotal and emotionally charged episode of Game of Thrones renowned for revealing the origin of Hodor's name and fate.
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C.
Crossgates
Crossgates is a small village in Fife, Scotland, situated near the town of Dalgety Bay.
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D.
The Gatekeeper
The Gatekeeper is the stage name of a member of Gravediggaz, the influential horrorcore hip hop group known for its dark, horror-themed lyrics and production.
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E.
Thunder Gate
Thunder Gate is the iconic outer entrance gate to Tokyo’s Sensō-ji Temple, famous for its massive red lantern and statues of protective deities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| antagonist | demons ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay by Michael Nankin ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Thomas Vámos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tibor Takács NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New Century Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Véronique Lange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ontario NERFINISHED ⓘ Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| hasSequel | The Gate II: Trespassers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Al
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glen NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michael Hoenig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | use of forced perspective creature effects ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Children accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard ⓘ |
| producer |
John Kemeny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Alliance Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1987-05-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 85 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Nankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
backyard
ⓘ
suburban house ⓘ |
| specialEffectsType |
practical effects
ⓘ
stop-motion animation ⓘ |
| stars |
Christa Denton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jennifer Irwin NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelly Rowan NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Tripp NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Dorff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood fears
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ occult ⓘ |
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 Gate Description of subject: The Gate is a 1987 supernatural horror film about children who accidentally unleash demonic forces from a mysterious hole in their backyard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.