The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) is a British comedy adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring a spoof-style take on the classic detective story.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10310868 — 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: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) Context triple: [Prunella Gee, notableWork, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)]
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A.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring a gothic mystery surrounding a legendary demonic hound on the moors.
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B.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, starring Ian Richardson as Holmes in a gothic mystery about a legendary demonic hound haunting the Baskerville family.
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C.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film) is a British gothic mystery adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, produced by Hammer Films and starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Christopher Lee.
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D.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 TV film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring Timothy Carlton in a prominent role.
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E.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.
- 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 Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) Target entity description: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) is a British comedy adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring a spoof-style take on the classic detective story.
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A.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring a gothic mystery surrounding a legendary demonic hound on the moors.
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B.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, starring Ian Richardson as Holmes in a gothic mystery about a legendary demonic hound haunting the Baskerville family.
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C.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film) is a British gothic mystery adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, produced by Hammer Films and starring Peter Cushing as Holmes and Christopher Lee.
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D.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 TV film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring Timothy Carlton in a prominent role.
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E.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Sherlock Holmes novel ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Hound of the Baskervilles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Arthur Conan Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Dick Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Paul Morrissey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Peter Tanner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Mortimer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ Inspector Lestrade NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir Henry Baskerville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
detective investigation
ⓘ
family curse ⓘ satire of detective fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ parody ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle |
parody
ⓘ
slapstick ⓘ spoof ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dudley Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | mysterious hound legend ⓘ |
| parodies |
Sherlock Holmes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Hound of the Baskervilles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Sherlock Holmes in film ⓘ |
| portrays | spoof version of Sherlock Holmes story ⓘ |
| producer | John Goldstone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Paul Morrissey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Dartmoor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ |
| stars |
Denholm Elliott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dudley Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Greenwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ Spike Milligan NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry-Thomas 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 Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) Description of subject: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film) is a British comedy adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes novel, featuring a spoof-style take on the classic detective story.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.