The Crawling Eye
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The Crawling Eye is a 1958 British science fiction horror film, also known as "The Trollenberg Terror," featuring deadly alien creatures attacking a Swiss mountain community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Crawling Eye canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13499367 — 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 Crawling Eye Context triple: [Janet Munro, workedOn, The Crawling Eye]
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A.
Lidless Eye
The Lidless Eye is the menacing emblem representing Sauron’s ever-watchful and malevolent presence in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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B.
The Hypnotic Eye
The Hypnotic Eye is a 1960 American horror film about a sadistic hypnotist who uses his powers to compel women into self-mutilation.
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C.
The Black Thing
The Black Thing is a malevolent cosmic force embodying darkness and evil that threatens the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel *A Wrinkle in Time*.
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D.
Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar
Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar is a humorous Lovecraftian pastiche short story by Neil Gaiman that blends cosmic horror with quirky, small-town British pub culture.
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E.
Midnight Creeper
"Midnight Creeper" is a song by Elton John featured on his 1973 album *Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player*.
- 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 Crawling Eye Target entity description: The Crawling Eye is a 1958 British science fiction horror film, also known as "The Trollenberg Terror," featuring deadly alien creatures attacking a Swiss mountain community.
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A.
Lidless Eye
The Lidless Eye is the menacing emblem representing Sauron’s ever-watchful and malevolent presence in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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B.
The Hypnotic Eye
The Hypnotic Eye is a 1960 American horror film about a sadistic hypnotist who uses his powers to compel women into self-mutilation.
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C.
The Black Thing
The Black Thing is a malevolent cosmic force embodying darkness and evil that threatens the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel *A Wrinkle in Time*.
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D.
Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar
Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar is a humorous Lovecraftian pastiche short story by Neil Gaiman that blends cosmic horror with quirky, small-town British pub culture.
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E.
Midnight Creeper
"Midnight Creeper" is a song by Elton John featured on his 1973 album *Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Trollenberg Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | British television serial "The Trollenberg Terror" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Desmond Dickinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Stanley Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Quentin Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Eros Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Mystery Science Theater 3000 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCreatureCharacteristic | disembodied eye GENERATED ⓘ |
| featuresCreatureType |
alien
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tentacled monster ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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monster film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alien invasion
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mysterious mountain accidents ⓘ telepathy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| MST3KEpisode | first nationally aired episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Comedy Central ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of giant crawling eye monsters in low-budget special effects ⓘ |
| originalTitle | The Trollenberg Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Deadly alien creatures attack a Swiss mountain community amid mysterious clouds on a mountain. ⓘ |
| producer |
Monty Berman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert S. Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tempean Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseCountry |
United Kingdom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| releaseYearInUnitedStates | 1958 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 84 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jimmy Sangster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Swiss Alps
NERFINISHED
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Swiss mountain community ⓘ |
| stars |
Forrest Tucker
NERFINISHED
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Janet Munro NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennifer Jayne NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Payne 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 Crawling Eye Description of subject: The Crawling Eye is a 1958 British science fiction horror film, also known as "The Trollenberg Terror," featuring deadly alien creatures attacking a Swiss mountain community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.