The Messengers
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The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural horror film about a family that encounters terrifying paranormal events after moving to a secluded sunflower farm in North Dakota.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Messengers canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9801839 — 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 Messengers Context triple: [Todd Farmer, wroteScreenplayFor, The Messengers]
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A.
The Messenger
The Messenger was an influential early 20th-century African American socialist magazine that advocated for civil rights, labor organizing, and racial equality.
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B.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England, providing news, events, and information relevant to the area.
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C.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film about U.S. Army casualty notification officers, co-written and directed by Oren Moverman and acclaimed for its powerful performances and sensitive treatment of grief and duty.
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The Message
"The Message" is a pioneering 1982 hip-hop track by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, produced and co-written by Sylvia Robinson, renowned for its stark social commentary on urban life.
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E.
The Emissaries
The Emissaries is the English title of Surah Al-Mursalat, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes divine judgment, the fate of deniers, and the certainty of the Day of Resurrection.
- 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 Messengers Target entity description: The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural horror film about a family that encounters terrifying paranormal events after moving to a secluded sunflower farm in North Dakota.
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A.
The Messenger
The Messenger was an influential early 20th-century African American socialist magazine that advocated for civil rights, labor organizing, and racial equality.
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B.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England, providing news, events, and information relevant to the area.
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C.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film about U.S. Army casualty notification officers, co-written and directed by Oren Moverman and acclaimed for its powerful performances and sensitive treatment of grief and duty.
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D.
The Message
"The Message" is a pioneering 1982 hip-hop track by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, produced and co-written by Sylvia Robinson, renowned for its stark social commentary on urban life.
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E.
The Emissaries
The Emissaries is the English title of Surah Al-Mursalat, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes divine judgment, the fate of deniers, and the certainty of the Day of Resurrection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Dylan McDermott
NERFINISHED
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Evan Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Jodelle Ferland NERFINISHED ⓘ John Corbett NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristen Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Penelope Ann Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ William B. Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | David Geddes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Danny Pang Phat
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oxide Pang Chun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Screen Gems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Arther Coburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
family in peril
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ghosts ⓘ haunted house ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Saskatchewan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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supernatural horror film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Messengers 2: The Scarecrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ben Solomon
NERFINISHED
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Denise Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jess Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ John Burwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joseph LoDuca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A family moves to a secluded sunflower farm in North Dakota and experiences terrifying paranormal events. ⓘ |
| producer |
J. R. Young
NERFINISHED
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Jason Shuman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Raimi NERFINISHED ⓘ William Sherak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Ghost House Pictures
NERFINISHED
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Mandate Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-02-02 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Mark Wheaton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | secluded sunflower farm ⓘ |
| storyBy | Todd Farmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Messengers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Messengers Description of subject: The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural horror film about a family that encounters terrifying paranormal events after moving to a secluded sunflower farm in North Dakota.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.