The Bottle Imp
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The Bottle Imp is a 1917 silent fantasy film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, starring Sessue Hayakawa as a man who acquires a cursed wish-granting bottle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Bottle Imp canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13499400 — 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 Bottle Imp Context triple: [Sessue Hayakawa, notableWork, The Bottle Imp]
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A.
Beckoner of Evil
Beckoner of Evil is a Hearthstone minion card from the Whispers of the Old Gods expansion known for its low cost and ability to significantly empower C’Thun.
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B.
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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C.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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D.
The Demon
"The Demon" is a narrative poem by Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov that tells the tragic love story between a fallen spirit and a mortal Georgian princess.
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E.
The Demon
The Demon is the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, axe-bass–wielding stage persona of Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss.
- 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 Bottle Imp Target entity description: The Bottle Imp is a 1917 silent fantasy film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, starring Sessue Hayakawa as a man who acquires a cursed wish-granting bottle.
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A.
Beckoner of Evil
Beckoner of Evil is a Hearthstone minion card from the Whispers of the Old Gods expansion known for its low cost and ability to significantly empower C’Thun.
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B.
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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C.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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D.
The Demon
"The Demon" is a narrative poem by Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov that tells the tragic love story between a fallen spirit and a mortal Georgian princess.
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E.
The Demon
The Demon is the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, axe-bass–wielding stage persona of Gene Simmons from the rock band Kiss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy film
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feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Bottle Imp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacter | cursed wish-granting bottle ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Walter Stradling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Marshall Neilan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Famous Players–Lasky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| filmLength | 5 reels ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama
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fantasy ⓘ |
| hasOriginalWorkMedium | short story ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | a Hawaiian man who buys a magical bottle ⓘ |
| originalWorkPublicationYear | 1891 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man acquires a cursed wish-granting bottle that must be sold for less than it was bought or it will damn its owner. ⓘ |
| producer | Jesse L. Lasky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1917-03-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Marion Fairfax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Hawaii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bertram Grassby
NERFINISHED
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Eugenie Besserer NERFINISHED ⓘ Leah Baird NERFINISHED ⓘ Sessue Hayakawa 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 Bottle Imp Description of subject: The Bottle Imp is a 1917 silent fantasy film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, starring Sessue Hayakawa as a man who acquires a cursed wish-granting bottle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.