House of Usher
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House of Usher is a 1960 gothic horror film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Usher canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8458127 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: House of Usher Context triple: [Roger Corman, notableWork, House of Usher]
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A.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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B.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic horror miniseries loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, centered on a corrupt pharmaceutical dynasty facing a series of gruesome, supernatural reckonings.
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C.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
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D.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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E.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
- 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: House of Usher Target entity description: House of Usher is a 1960 gothic horror film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price.
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A.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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B.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic horror miniseries loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, centered on a corrupt pharmaceutical dynasty facing a series of gruesome, supernatural reckonings.
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C.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
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D.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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E.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Fall of the House of Usher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artDirector | Daniel Haller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film (USA) ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Fall of the House of Usher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Edgar Allan Poe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Floyd Crosby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Roger Corman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | American International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Anthony Carras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1960s American horror cinema ⓘ |
| format | CinemaScope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
gothic film
ⓘ
horror film ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Vincent Price as Roderick Usher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Madeline Usher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philip Winthrop NERFINISHED ⓘ Roderick Usher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Les Baxter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Roger Corman Poe cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Roger Corman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | American International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1960-06-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 79 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Richard Matheson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
19th century
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a decaying mansion ⓘ |
| settingType | isolated mansion ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialGenre | gothic short story ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialPublicationYear | 1839 ⓘ |
| starring |
Harry Ellerbe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Damon NERFINISHED ⓘ Myrna Fahey NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
decay
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entombment ⓘ family curse ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| title | House of Usher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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