Stanton Carlisle
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Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stanton Carlisle canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770904 — 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: Stanton Carlisle Context triple: [Nightmare Alley (2021 film), mainCharacter, Stanton Carlisle]
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A.
Guy Mountfort
Guy Mountfort was a British advertising executive, author, and conservationist best known for co-founding the World Wildlife Fund and helping pioneer modern international wildlife conservation efforts.
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Christopher Benstead
Christopher Benstead is a British composer and music editor known for his film scores and sound work on major movies, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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D.
Adrian Biddle
Adrian Biddle was a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on films such as "Aliens," "Thelma & Louise," and "The Mummy."
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E.
Karl Richardson
Karl Richardson is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on numerous Bee Gees and Barry Gibb projects.
- 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: Stanton Carlisle Target entity description: Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
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A.
Guy Mountfort
Guy Mountfort was a British advertising executive, author, and conservationist best known for co-founding the World Wildlife Fund and helping pioneer modern international wildlife conservation efforts.
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Christopher Benstead
Christopher Benstead is a British composer and music editor known for his film scores and sound work on major movies, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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D.
Adrian Biddle
Adrian Biddle was a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on films such as "Aliens," "Thelma & Louise," and "The Mummy."
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E.
Karl Richardson
Karl Richardson is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on numerous Bee Gees and Barry Gibb projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Nightmare Alley
ⓘ
Nightmare Alley ⓘ
surface form:
Nightmare Alley (2021 film)
|
| appearsInGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clem Hoatley
ⓘ
Dr. Lilith Ritter ⓘ Molly Cahill ⓘ Pete Krumbein ⓘ Zeena Krumbein ⓘ |
| basedOn | Stanton Carlisle (Nightmare Alley novel character) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
charismatic ⓘ deceptive ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| conflictType | internal moral conflict ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | William Lindsay Gresham ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | Guillermo del Toro ⓘ |
| endState | downfall ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationOf | Nightmare Alley (novel) ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
neo-noir
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | morally conflicted ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antihero
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| notablePlotElement |
rise from carnival worker to high-society mentalist
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romantic and criminal partnership with Molly Cahill ⓘ use of cold reading and mentalism tricks ⓘ |
| notableSceneType | spiritualist and psychic cons ⓘ |
| occupation |
carnival worker
ⓘ
conman ⓘ mentalist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bradley Cooper ⓘ |
| screenAppearanceYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| setting |
1940s United States
ⓘ
carnival ⓘ |
| theme |
ambition
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deception ⓘ fate ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ the cost of success ⓘ |
| workTitle |
Nightmare Alley
ⓘ
surface form:
Nightmare Alley (2021)
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Stanton Carlisle Description of subject: Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nightmare Alley (2021 film)
subject surface form:
Nightmare Alley
subject surface form:
Nightmare Alley