Videodrome
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Videodrome is a 1983 science fiction–body horror film directed by David Cronenberg, known for its surreal exploration of media, technology, and psychological manipulation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Videodrome canonical | 8 |
| discovers the Videodrome broadcast | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2169723 — 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: Videodrome Context triple: [James Woods, notableWork, Videodrome]
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A.
Alphaville
Alphaville is a 1965 French science-fiction noir film by Jean-Luc Godard that blends dystopian themes with experimental, genre-bending style.
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B.
The Lawnmower Man
"The Lawnmower Man" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a bizarre, supernatural lawn care service that reveals a gruesome and otherworldly secret.
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C.
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American HBO television drama series set during the Great Depression that blends dark fantasy, mysticism, and a traveling carnival backdrop to explore an epic struggle between good and evil.
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D.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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E.
Slan
Slan is a classic 1940 science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt about a persecuted race of telepathic mutants, often cited as a landmark of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
- 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: Videodrome Target entity description: Videodrome is a 1983 science fiction–body horror film directed by David Cronenberg, known for its surreal exploration of media, technology, and psychological manipulation.
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A.
Alphaville
Alphaville is a 1965 French science-fiction noir film by Jean-Luc Godard that blends dystopian themes with experimental, genre-bending style.
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B.
The Lawnmower Man
"The Lawnmower Man" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a bizarre, supernatural lawn care service that reveals a gruesome and otherworldly secret.
-
C.
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American HBO television drama series set during the Great Depression that blends dark fantasy, mysticism, and a traveling carnival backdrop to explore an epic struggle between good and evil.
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D.
The Fly
"The Fly" is a U2 song, released as a lead single from their album Achtung Baby, that marked a bold shift toward a darker, more experimental rock and electronic sound.
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E.
Slan
Slan is a classic 1940 science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt about a persecuted race of telepathic mutants, often cited as a landmark of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Videodrome Description of subject: Videodrome is a 1983 science fiction–body horror film directed by David Cronenberg, known for its surreal exploration of media, technology, and psychological manipulation.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Max Renn
subject surface form:
Max Renn
subject surface form:
Max Renn
subject surface form:
Max Renn
this entity surface form:
discovers the Videodrome broadcast