Terror Train
E703870
Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian slasher film set on a New Year's Eve costume party train, known for starring Jamie Lee Curtis during her early "scream queen" era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terror Train canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7995440 — 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: Terror Train Context triple: [Jamie Lee Curtis, notableWork, Terror Train]
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A.
Stop That Train
"Stop That Train" is a reggae song popularized by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its laid-back groove and themes of departure and escape.
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B.
Nightmovers
Nightmovers is a novel by American writer Jack Dunphy, known for its introspective, character-driven exploration of relationships and urban life.
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C.
Night of the Trains
Night of the Trains was a coordinated 1945 sabotage operation by Jewish underground groups in Mandatory Palestine targeting the British railway network to challenge British rule and immigration restrictions.
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D.
Journey into Fear
Journey into Fear is a 1943 film noir–style thriller, based on Eric Ambler’s novel, in which Joseph Cotten plays an American engineer targeted by Nazi agents while traveling through wartime Europe.
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E.
Terror by Night
Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes mystery film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, set largely aboard a train as Holmes investigates the theft of a valuable diamond and a related murder.
- 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: Terror Train Target entity description: Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian slasher film set on a New Year's Eve costume party train, known for starring Jamie Lee Curtis during her early "scream queen" era.
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A.
Stop That Train
"Stop That Train" is a reggae song popularized by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its laid-back groove and themes of departure and escape.
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B.
Nightmovers
Nightmovers is a novel by American writer Jack Dunphy, known for its introspective, character-driven exploration of relationships and urban life.
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C.
Night of the Trains
Night of the Trains was a coordinated 1945 sabotage operation by Jewish underground groups in Mandatory Palestine targeting the British railway network to challenge British rule and immigration restrictions.
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D.
Journey into Fear
Journey into Fear is a 1943 film noir–style thriller, based on Eric Ambler’s novel, in which Joseph Cotten plays an American engineer targeted by Nazi agents while traveling through wartime Europe.
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E.
Terror by Night
Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes mystery film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, set largely aboard a train as Holmes investigates the theft of a valuable diamond and a related murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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slasher film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Train of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Alcott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1980s ⓘ |
| director | Roger Spottiswoode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| editedBy | Anne Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features |
New Year’s Eve party
ⓘ
magic acts ⓘ masked killer ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Montreal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | feature film ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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slasher film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | college student ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
holiday horror
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train horror ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
prank gone wrong
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ |
| leadCharacterPlayedBy | Jamie Lee Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Mills-Cockell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early scream queen role of Jamie Lee Curtis ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980s slasher film cycle ⓘ |
| posterTagline | “The boys and girls of Sigma Phi. Some will live. Some will die.” ⓘ |
| producer |
Daniel Grodnik
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harold Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Astral Bellevue Pathé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1980-10-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| setting |
New Year’s Eve
NERFINISHED
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costume party ⓘ passenger train ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Copperfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Hart Bochner NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamie Lee Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Daniel Grodnik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Terror Train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | T. Y. Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Terror Train Description of subject: Terror Train is a 1980 Canadian slasher film set on a New Year's Eve costume party train, known for starring Jamie Lee Curtis during her early "scream queen" era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.