The Evil
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The Evil is a 1978 American supernatural horror film about a psychologist who opens a cursed mansion that becomes a deadly trap for its occupants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Evil canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11285687 — 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 Evil Context triple: [Joanna Pettet, appearedIn, The Evil]
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A.
Evillene
Evillene is the Wicked Witch of the West in the musical retelling of The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz.
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B.
Evil Urges
Evil Urges is a genre-blending 2008 studio album by American rock band My Morning Jacket, noted for its experimental mix of rock, soul, and psychedelic influences.
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C.
Evil Stuff
Evil Stuff is a themed retail shop in Minion Land offering villain-inspired merchandise and playful, mischievous souvenirs.
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D.
An Evil Spirit
"An Evil Spirit" is a novel by British author Richard Pryce, best known as one of his more prominent works in late 19th-century fiction.
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E.
D’Evils
"D’Evils" is a dark, introspective track by Jay-Z from his debut album "Reasonable Doubt," exploring the moral conflicts and corrupting influence of street life and the pursuit of wealth.
- 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 Evil Target entity description: The Evil is a 1978 American supernatural horror film about a psychologist who opens a cursed mansion that becomes a deadly trap for its occupants.
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A.
Evillene
Evillene is the Wicked Witch of the West in the musical retelling of The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz.
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B.
Evil Urges
Evil Urges is a genre-blending 2008 studio album by American rock band My Morning Jacket, noted for its experimental mix of rock, soul, and psychedelic influences.
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C.
Evil Stuff
Evil Stuff is a themed retail shop in Minion Land offering villain-inspired merchandise and playful, mischievous souvenirs.
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D.
An Evil Spirit
"An Evil Spirit" is a novel by British author Richard Pryce, best known as one of his more prominent works in late 19th-century fiction.
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E.
D’Evils
"D’Evils" is a dark, introspective track by Jay-Z from his debut album "Reasonable Doubt," exploring the moral conflicts and corrupting influence of street life and the pursuit of wealth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American horror film
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film ⓘ supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Andrew Prine
NERFINISHED
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Cassie Yates NERFINISHED ⓘ George O'Hanlon Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanna Pettet NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynne Moody NERFINISHED ⓘ Milton Selzer NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Crenna NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Viharo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Mario DiLeo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Terry Plumeri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Gus Trikonis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | New World Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Richard Bracken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
demonic possession
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good versus evil ⓘ haunted house ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
C.J. Arnold
NERFINISHED
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Caroline Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ Father Wheatley NERFINISHED ⓘ Felix NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurie Belman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Harper NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ Vance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A psychologist opens a long-abandoned, cursed mansion as a rehabilitation center, unleashing a malevolent force that traps and kills the occupants. ⓘ |
| producer | Ed Carlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ed Carlin Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978-05-26 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Donald G. Thompson
NERFINISHED
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Gus Trikonis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
New Mexico
NERFINISHED
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haunted mansion ⓘ |
| title | The Evil 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 Evil Description of subject: The Evil is a 1978 American supernatural horror film about a psychologist who opens a cursed mansion that becomes a deadly trap for its occupants.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.