Maniac
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Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film, presented largely from the killer’s point of view, in which Elijah Wood portrays a disturbed serial murderer in a brutal, stylized remake of the 1980 cult classic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maniac canonical | 5 |
| Maniac (1980 film) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2369566 — 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: Maniac Context triple: [Elijah Wood, notableWork, Maniac]
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A.
Maniac
Maniac is a dark comedy-drama miniseries that blends psychological sci-fi and surreal storytelling, in which Emma Stone stars as a troubled woman participating in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial.
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B.
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 satirical crime film directed by Oliver Stone that follows a murderous couple turned media sensations, known for its controversial violence and critique of mass media.
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C.
Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is a darkly comedic crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh that follows a struggling screenwriter who becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his eccentric friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved dog.
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D.
Se7en
Se7en is a 1995 neo-noir psychological crime thriller film about two detectives hunting a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
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E.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 psychological crime thriller directed by Michael Mann, notable as the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels.
- 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: Maniac Target entity description: Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film, presented largely from the killer’s point of view, in which Elijah Wood portrays a disturbed serial murderer in a brutal, stylized remake of the 1980 cult classic.
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A.
Maniac
Maniac is a dark comedy-drama miniseries that blends psychological sci-fi and surreal storytelling, in which Emma Stone stars as a troubled woman participating in a mysterious pharmaceutical trial.
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B.
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 satirical crime film directed by Oliver Stone that follows a murderous couple turned media sensations, known for its controversial violence and critique of mass media.
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C.
Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is a darkly comedic crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh that follows a struggling screenwriter who becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his eccentric friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved dog.
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D.
Se7en
Se7en is a 1995 neo-noir psychological crime thriller film about two detectives hunting a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
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E.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter is a 1986 psychological crime thriller directed by Michael Mann, notable as the first film adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Maniac Description of subject: Maniac is a 2012 psychological slasher film, presented largely from the killer’s point of view, in which Elijah Wood portrays a disturbed serial murderer in a brutal, stylized remake of the 1980 cult classic.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Maniac (2012 film)
this entity surface form:
Maniac (1980 film)
subject surface form:
Maniac (2012 film)
this entity surface form:
Maniac (1980 film)
subject surface form:
Thomas Vincent Savini
this entity surface form:
Maniac (1980 film)