Splinter
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Splinter is a 2008 American horror film about a parasitic creature that traps a couple and an escaped convict in a remote gas station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Splinter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11136512 — 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: Splinter Context triple: [Paulo Costanzo, appearedIn, Splinter]
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A.
Splinter
Splinter was a British rock duo from South Shields best known for their melodic soft rock in the 1970s and their close association with George Harrison.
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B.
Splinter
Splinter is a 2003 studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, known for its energetic blend of punk, alternative rock, and melodic hooks.
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C.
Splinter
Splinter is the wise mutant rat sensei and adoptive father of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, training and guiding them in ninjutsu and life.
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D.
Shredder
Shredder is the ruthless, armor-clad leader of the Foot Clan and the primary nemesis of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles across many iterations of the franchise.
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E.
Kuromi
Kuromi is a mischievous yet cute Sanrio character, often depicted in a black jester’s hat with a pink skull, who serves as My Melody’s punk-styled rival.
- 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: Splinter Target entity description: Splinter is a 2008 American horror film about a parasitic creature that traps a couple and an escaped convict in a remote gas station.
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A.
Splinter
Splinter is a 2003 studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, known for its energetic blend of punk, alternative rock, and melodic hooks.
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B.
Splinter
Splinter is the wise mutant rat sensei and adoptive father of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, training and guiding them in ninjutsu and life.
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C.
Splinter
Splinter was a British rock duo from South Shields best known for their melodic soft rock in the 1970s and their close association with George Harrison.
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D.
Shredder
Shredder is the ruthless, armor-clad leader of the Foot Clan and the primary nemesis of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles across many iterations of the franchise.
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E.
Kuromi
Kuromi is a mischievous yet cute Sanrio character, often depicted in a black jester’s hat with a pink skull, who serves as My Melody’s punk-styled rival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Nelson Cragg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Toby Wilkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
ContentFilm International
NERFINISHED
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Magnolia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | David Michael Maurer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Oklahoma City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
creature feature
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horror film ⓘ independent film ⓘ |
| hasAward |
Best Directing at Screamfest Horror Film Festival
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Best Editing at Screamfest Horror Film Festival ⓘ Best Makeup at Screamfest Horror Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ Best Picture at Screamfest Horror Film Festival ⓘ Best Score at Screamfest Horror Film Festival ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Charles Baker
NERFINISHED
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Jill Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ Paulo Costanzo NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Kerbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Shea Whigham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHomeMediaRelease |
Blu-ray
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DVD ⓘ |
| hasMetacriticScore | 58 ⓘ |
| hasRottenTomatoesScore | 76 ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | parasitic creature ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Elia Cmiral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | practical creature effects ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American independent horror cinema of the 2000s ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A parasitic creature traps a couple and an escaped convict in a remote gas station. ⓘ |
| producer |
Kai Barry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ted Kroeber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ContentFilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008-10-31 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 82 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ian Shorr
NERFINISHED
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Kai Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ Toby Wilkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | remote gas station ⓘ |
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: Splinter Description of subject: Splinter is a 2008 American horror film about a parasitic creature that traps a couple and an escaped convict in a remote gas station.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.