Shocker
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Shocker is a 1989 American horror film that blends slasher and supernatural elements, following a serial killer who gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shocker canonical | 2 |
| Shocker (1989 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10917124 — 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: Shocker Context triple: [Wes Craven, directed, Shocker]
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A.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
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B.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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C.
Black Scorpion
Black Scorpion is a 1995 campy superhero action film featuring Joan Severance as a vigilante crime-fighter who becomes a leather-clad, high-tech avenger.
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D.
Shockers
Shockers is the athletic nickname for Wichita State University's sports teams, known especially for their successful men's basketball program.
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E.
Shankman
Shankman is a surname most notably associated with American film director and choreographer Adam Shankman.
- 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: Shocker Target entity description: Shocker is a 1989 American horror film that blends slasher and supernatural elements, following a serial killer who gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution.
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A.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
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B.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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C.
Black Scorpion
Black Scorpion is a 1995 campy superhero action film featuring Joan Severance as a vigilante crime-fighter who becomes a leather-clad, high-tech avenger.
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D.
Shockers
Shockers is the athletic nickname for Wichita State University's sports teams, known especially for their successful men's basketball program.
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E.
Shankman
Shankman is a surname most notably associated with American film director and choreographer Adam Shankman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Shocker Description of subject: Shocker is a 1989 American horror film that blends slasher and supernatural elements, following a serial killer who gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shocker