The Oblong Box
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The Oblong Box is a 1969 British horror film adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story, produced by Harry Alan Towers and starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Oblong Box canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9518961 — 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 Oblong Box Context triple: [Harry Alan Towers, notableWork, The Oblong Box]
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A.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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B.
The Box
"The Box" is a 2019 trap/hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch that became a viral hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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C.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
The Box
The Box is an Australian television soap opera produced in the 1970s that became known for its risqué content and behind-the-scenes look at a fictional TV station.
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E.
The Box
The Box is a 2009 psychological thriller film directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” in which a couple is offered a mysterious box that grants wealth at the cost of a stranger’s life.
- 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 Oblong Box Target entity description: The Oblong Box is a 1969 British horror film adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story, produced by Harry Alan Towers and starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
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A.
The Man on the Box
The Man on the Box is a 1925 American silent comedy film, based on Harold MacGrath’s novel, about a mischievous young man who disguises himself as a servant to pursue a romantic interest.
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B.
The Box
"The Box" is a 2019 trap/hip-hop single by Roddy Ricch that became a viral hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks.
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C.
The Box
The Box is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s iconic time-traveling spaceship and time machine from the British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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D.
The Box
The Box is an Australian television soap opera produced in the 1970s that became known for its risqué content and behind-the-scenes look at a fictional TV station.
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E.
The Box
The Box is a 2009 psychological thriller film directed by Richard Kelly, based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” in which a couple is offered a mysterious box that grants wealth at the cost of a stranger’s life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | short story by Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| distributor | American International Pictures ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic horror
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horror ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Alister Williamson
ⓘ
Brenda Forbes ⓘ Carl Rigg ⓘ Charles Lloyd-Pack ⓘ Denis Shaw ⓘ Edward Burnham ⓘ Graham Armitage ⓘ Harry Baird ⓘ Hilary Dwyer ⓘ John Bennett ⓘ John Bryans ⓘ John Dearth ⓘ John Gill ⓘ John Glyn-Jones ⓘ John Harvey ⓘ Maxine Audley ⓘ Michael Goldie ⓘ Michael Segal ⓘ Patrick Magee ⓘ Peter Arne ⓘ Peter Elliott ⓘ Peter Halliday ⓘ Peter Swanwick ⓘ Robert Hutton ⓘ Rupert Davies ⓘ Sally Geeson ⓘ Sally Harrison ⓘ Sally Nesbitt ⓘ Sydney Bromley ⓘ Uta Levka ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Harry Alan Towers ⓘ |
| productionCompany | American International Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| starring |
Christopher Lee
ⓘ
Vincent Price ⓘ |
| title | The Oblong Box ⓘ |
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: The Oblong Box Description of subject: The Oblong Box is a 1969 British horror film adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story, produced by Harry Alan Towers and starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.