The Signal
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The Signal is a 2014 science fiction thriller film that follows three college students who are lured to a remote location by a mysterious hacker, leading to a surreal and unsettling encounter with extraterrestrial forces.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Signal canonical | 3 |
| The Signal (2014 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10249026 — 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 Signal Context triple: [Lakeshore Entertainment, notableWork, The Signal]
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Messengers
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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C.
The Black Box
The Black Box is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he reopens a decades-old murder case first encountered during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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E.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series, co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, featuring the iconic drifter hero confronting a high-stakes conspiracy.
- 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 Signal Target entity description: The Signal is a 2014 science fiction thriller film that follows three college students who are lured to a remote location by a mysterious hacker, leading to a surreal and unsettling encounter with extraterrestrial forces.
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Messengers
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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C.
The Black Box
The Black Box is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch as he reopens a decades-old murder case first encountered during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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D.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a 1977 supernatural horror film known for its eerie atmosphere and cult status, in which Christopher Walken appears among an ensemble cast.
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E.
The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a thriller novel in the Jack Reacher series, co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, featuring the iconic drifter hero confronting a high-stakes conspiracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Avery Pohl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beau Knapp NERFINISHED ⓘ Betsy Hume NERFINISHED ⓘ Brenton Thwaites NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Grover NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Fishburne NERFINISHED ⓘ Lin Shaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Linus Roache NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Longstreet NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Kenny NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Dr. Wallace Damon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | David Lanzenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Eubank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Focus Features NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Brian Berdan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event | Sundance Film Festival 2014 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
control
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human experimentation ⓘ identity ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Haley Peterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonah NERFINISHED ⓘ Nic Eastman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nima Fakhrara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeElement |
extraterrestrial technology
ⓘ
government facility ⓘ surreal encounters ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | college students lured by a mysterious hacker ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tyler Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Automatik Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Low Spark Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2014-01-20 ⓘ |
| runtime | 97 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDate | 2014-06-13 ⓘ |
| writer |
Carlyle Eubank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Frigerio NERFINISHED ⓘ William Eubank 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 Signal Description of subject: The Signal is a 2014 science fiction thriller film that follows three college students who are lured to a remote location by a mysterious hacker, leading to a surreal and unsettling encounter with extraterrestrial forces.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Signal (2014 film)