Frankenstein (1927 play)
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Frankenstein (1927 play) is a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel that helped shape later screen versions of the Frankenstein story, including the iconic 1931 film.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frankenstein (1927 play) canonical | 1 |
| Frankenstein (stage adaptation) | 1 |
| Frankenstein (stage score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2517092 — 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: Frankenstein (1927 play) Context triple: [Frankenstein (1931 film), basedOn, Frankenstein (1927 play)]
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Shelley that tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a sentient creature in a groundbreaking but tragic experiment, and is widely regarded as a foundational work of science fiction and horror literature.
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The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British Hammer Horror film that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story and helped launch Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to international horror stardom.
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Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein (1931) is a landmark American horror film directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the iconic monster, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential early sound-era horror movies.
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I, Frankenstein
I, Frankenstein is a 2014 dark fantasy action film that reimagines Mary Shelley's monster amid a war between gargoyles and demons in a modern gothic setting.
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Frankenstein (National Theatre production)
Frankenstein (National Theatre production) is a critically acclaimed 2011 stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, directed by Danny Boyle and renowned for alternating Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the lead roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.
- 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: Frankenstein (1927 play) Target entity description: Frankenstein (1927 play) is a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel that helped shape later screen versions of the Frankenstein story, including the iconic 1931 film.
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A.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Shelley that tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a sentient creature in a groundbreaking but tragic experiment, and is widely regarded as a foundational work of science fiction and horror literature.
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B.
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British Hammer Horror film that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story and helped launch Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to international horror stardom.
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C.
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein (1931) is a landmark American horror film directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff as the iconic monster, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential early sound-era horror movies.
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D.
I, Frankenstein
I, Frankenstein is a 2014 dark fantasy action film that reimagines Mary Shelley's monster amid a war between gargoyles and demons in a modern gothic setting.
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E.
Frankenstein (National Theatre production)
Frankenstein (National Theatre production) is a critically acclaimed 2011 stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, directed by Danny Boyle and renowned for alternating Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the lead roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
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: Frankenstein (1927 play) Description of subject: Frankenstein (1927 play) is a stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel that helped shape later screen versions of the Frankenstein story, including the iconic 1931 film.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frankenstein (1931 film)
this entity surface form:
Frankenstein (stage score)
this entity surface form:
Frankenstein (stage adaptation)