The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film)
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The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) is a British horror movie loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, featuring a decadent prince who tries to evade a deadly plague by holding a lavish, macabre masquerade ball.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770611 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) Context triple: [The Masque of the Red Death, adaptedAs, The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film)]
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The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum
The 1961 film "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a gothic horror movie directed by Roger Corman, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story and starring Vincent Price.
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1960 film)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960 film) is a gothic horror movie directed by Roger Corman, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story and noted for its atmospheric visuals and Vincent Price’s performance.
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MASQUE
MASQUE is an IETF protocol framework that enables proxying of network traffic such as HTTP, DNS, and VPN-like tunnels over HTTP/3 using QUIC.
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The Purple Mask
The Purple Mask is a 1955 swashbuckling adventure film set in post-revolutionary France, known for its masked-hero storyline and for featuring actress Jarma Lewis in its cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) Target entity description: The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) is a British horror movie loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, featuring a decadent prince who tries to evade a deadly plague by holding a lavish, macabre masquerade ball.
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A.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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B.
1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum
The 1961 film "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a gothic horror movie directed by Roger Corman, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story and starring Vincent Price.
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C.
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960 film)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960 film) is a gothic horror movie directed by Roger Corman, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story and noted for its atmospheric visuals and Vincent Price’s performance.
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D.
MASQUE
MASQUE is an IETF protocol framework that enables proxying of network traffic such as HTTP, DNS, and VPN-like tunnels over HTTP/3 using QUIC.
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E.
The Purple Mask
The Purple Mask is a 1955 swashbuckling adventure film set in post-revolutionary France, known for its masked-hero storyline and for featuring actress Jarma Lewis in its cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Masque of the Red Death
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short story by Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Paul Beeson ⓘ |
| composer | Gianfranco Plenizio ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alan Birkinshaw ⓘ |
| distributor | 21st Century Film Corporation ⓘ |
| editor | Alan Pattillo ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
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decadence ⓘ inevitability of mortality ⓘ plague ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| partOf | film adaptations of works by Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A decadent prince attempts to evade a deadly plague by holding a lavish, macabre masquerade ball. ⓘ |
| producer | Harry Alan Towers ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Harry Alan Towers ⓘ |
| setting | a decadent prince's castle ⓘ |
| starred |
Adrian Paul
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Christina Rosendahl ⓘ Herbert Lom ⓘ Michelle McBride ⓘ Patrick Macnee ⓘ |
| title | The Masque of the Red Death ⓘ |
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 Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) Description of subject: The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film) is a British horror movie loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, featuring a decadent prince who tries to evade a deadly plague by holding a lavish, macabre masquerade ball.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.