The Amityville Horror
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The Amityville Horror is a 1979 supernatural horror film about a family terrorized by malevolent forces in their new Long Island home, inspired by the allegedly true events surrounding the Amityville house.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Amityville Horror canonical | 8 |
| The Amityville Horror (1979 film) | 3 |
| The Amityville Horror (2005 film) | 2 |
| Amityville Horror | 1 |
| Amityville haunting events | 1 |
| The Amityville Horror (book) | 1 |
| The Amityville Horror score | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1062178 — 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 Amityville Horror Context triple: [Murray Hamilton, notableWork, The Amityville Horror]
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A.
Amityville
Amityville is a village in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island’s South Shore, known for its suburban character and the infamous "Amityville Horror" house.
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B.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
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C.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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D.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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E.
Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
- 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 Amityville Horror Target entity description: The Amityville Horror is a 1979 supernatural horror film about a family terrorized by malevolent forces in their new Long Island home, inspired by the allegedly true events surrounding the Amityville house.
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A.
Amityville
Amityville is a village in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island’s South Shore, known for its suburban character and the infamous "Amityville Horror" house.
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B.
The Haunting
The Haunting is a 1963 British supernatural horror film directed by Robert Wise, widely regarded as one of the most influential and psychologically driven haunted house movies ever made.
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C.
Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is a horror novel by Stephen King about a burial ground with the power to resurrect the dead, leading to terrifying consequences for a grieving family.
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D.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a landmark 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, renowned for its shocking depiction of demonic possession and its major influence on both the genre and modern cinema.
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E.
Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, about a suburban family terrorized by malevolent spirits in their home.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Amityville Horror Description of subject: The Amityville Horror is a 1979 supernatural horror film about a family terrorized by malevolent forces in their new Long Island home, inspired by the allegedly true events surrounding the Amityville house.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror (book)
this entity surface form:
Amityville haunting events
this entity surface form:
Amityville Horror
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror (1979 film)
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror (2005 film)
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror score
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror (2005 film)
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror (1979 film)
this entity surface form:
The Amityville Horror (1979 film)