Dragonwyck
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Dragonwyck is a 1946 Gothic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, known for its eerie atmosphere and Gene Tierney’s performance as a young woman drawn into a sinister Hudson Valley mansion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dragonwyck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10381321 — 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: Dragonwyck Context triple: [Gene Tierney, notableWork, Dragonwyck]
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A.
Frenchman’s Creek
Frenchman’s Creek is a historical romance novel by Daphne du Maurier about an aristocratic woman who escapes her stifling life to embark on a passionate adventure with a French pirate in 17th-century Cornwall.
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B.
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 dark fantasy-comedy film about three women in a small New England town whose lives are upended when a mysterious and charismatic stranger arrives, awakening their latent magical powers.
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C.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
The Witch of the Alps
The Witch of the Alps is a powerful supernatural spirit who appears to the tormented hero in Lord Byron’s dramatic poem "Manfred," offering him otherworldly knowledge and temptation amid the Alpine setting.
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E.
The Company of Wolves
The Company of Wolves is a 1984 dark fantasy horror film directed by Neil Jordan that reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as a surreal, gothic coming-of-age tale involving werewolves and dreamlike folklore.
- 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: Dragonwyck Target entity description: Dragonwyck is a 1946 Gothic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, known for its eerie atmosphere and Gene Tierney’s performance as a young woman drawn into a sinister Hudson Valley mansion.
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A.
Frenchman’s Creek
Frenchman’s Creek is a historical romance novel by Daphne du Maurier about an aristocratic woman who escapes her stifling life to embark on a passionate adventure with a French pirate in 17th-century Cornwall.
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B.
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 dark fantasy-comedy film about three women in a small New England town whose lives are upended when a mysterious and charismatic stranger arrives, awakening their latent magical powers.
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C.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
The Witch of the Alps
The Witch of the Alps is a powerful supernatural spirit who appears to the tormented hero in Lord Byron’s dramatic poem "Manfred," offering him otherworldly knowledge and temptation amid the Alpine setting.
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E.
The Company of Wolves
The Company of Wolves is a 1984 dark fantasy horror film directed by Neil Jordan that reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as a surreal, gothic coming-of-age tale involving werewolves and dreamlike folklore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Gothic drama film
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film ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy |
J. Russell Spencer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lyle R. Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dragonwyck (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Anya Seton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Ephraim Wells
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Johanna Van Ryn NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Van Ryn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignBy | Bonnie Cashin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Joseph L. Mankiewicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Twentieth Century-Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorType | major studio distributor ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dorothy Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| EphraimWellsPortrayedBy | Walter Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic film
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drama film ⓘ period drama ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| JohannaVanRynPortrayedBy | Spring Byington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MirandaWellsPortrayedBy | Gene Tierney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NicholasVanRynPortrayedBy | Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Gene Tierney’s performance
ⓘ
eerie atmosphere ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young woman from a farm family goes to live at the estate of a distant aristocratic cousin and becomes entangled in his dark secrets. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Twentieth Century-Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | studio film ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSource | 1944 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Joseph L. Mankiewicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| settingLocation | Hudson Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| stars |
Anne Revere
NERFINISHED
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Gene Tierney NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Langan NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessica Tandy NERFINISHED ⓘ Spring Byington NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Dragonwyck Description of subject: Dragonwyck is a 1946 Gothic drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, known for its eerie atmosphere and Gene Tierney’s performance as a young woman drawn into a sinister Hudson Valley mansion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.