Poltergeist
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Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Poltergeist canonical | 24 |
| Poltergeist (1982 film) | 4 |
| Poltergeist II: The Other Side | 3 |
| Poltergeist franchise | 2 |
| Poltergeist film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560947 — 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: Poltergeist Context triple: [Craig T. Nelson, notableWork, Poltergeist]
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A.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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B.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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C.
The Shining (1980 film)
The Shining (1980 film) is Stanley Kubrick’s iconic psychological horror movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a family’s terrifying descent into madness at an isolated, haunted hotel.
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D.
The Conjuring
The Conjuring is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed by James Wan that follows real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as they confront a malevolent presence haunting a family’s farmhouse.
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E.
The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
- 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: Poltergeist Target entity description: Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
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A.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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B.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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C.
The Shining (1980 film)
The Shining (1980 film) is Stanley Kubrick’s iconic psychological horror movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, about a family’s terrifying descent into madness at an isolated, haunted hotel.
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D.
The Conjuring
The Conjuring is a 2013 supernatural horror film directed by James Wan that follows real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren as they confront a malevolent presence haunting a family’s farmhouse.
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E.
The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Poltergeist Description of subject: Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Poltergeist film series
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side
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Poltergeist (1982 film)
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Poltergeist (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Poltergeist franchise
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side
this entity surface form:
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
this entity surface form:
Poltergeist (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Poltergeist (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
Poltergeist franchise