Dawn of the Dead
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Dawn of the Dead is a landmark 1978 horror film directed by George A. Romero that helped define the modern zombie genre with its graphic gore, social satire, and influential special effects.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dawn of the Dead (2004 film) | 5 |
| Dawn of the Dead canonical | 4 |
| Dawn of the Dead (1978 film) | 1 |
| Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3362564 — 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: Dawn of the Dead Context triple: [Tom Savini, notableWork, Dawn of the Dead]
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A.
Zombie
A Zombie in Minecraft is a common hostile undead mob that attacks players and villagers, often spawning in dark areas and burning in sunlight.
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B.
Zombies
Zombies is a popular cooperative survival-horror game mode featuring waves of undead enemies, best known from its inclusion in Treyarch’s Call of Duty titles.
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C.
Zombieland
Zombieland is a 2009 horror-comedy film about a group of survivors navigating a zombie apocalypse with a mix of humor, gore, and quirky survival rules.
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D.
World War Z
World War Z is a 2013 apocalyptic action-horror film starring Brad Pitt that depicts a global zombie pandemic and humanity’s desperate efforts to survive.
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E.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead is a vibrant, fantastical afterlife realm in Pixar's "Coco," where deceased ancestors live in a colorful city sustained by the memories of the living.
- 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: Dawn of the Dead Target entity description: Dawn of the Dead is a landmark 1978 horror film directed by George A. Romero that helped define the modern zombie genre with its graphic gore, social satire, and influential special effects.
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A.
Zombie
A Zombie in Minecraft is a common hostile undead mob that attacks players and villagers, often spawning in dark areas and burning in sunlight.
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B.
Zombies
Zombies is a popular cooperative survival-horror game mode featuring waves of undead enemies, best known from its inclusion in Treyarch’s Call of Duty titles.
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C.
Zombieland
Zombieland is a 2009 horror-comedy film about a group of survivors navigating a zombie apocalypse with a mix of humor, gore, and quirky survival rules.
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D.
World War Z
World War Z is a 2013 apocalyptic action-horror film starring Brad Pitt that depicts a global zombie pandemic and humanity’s desperate efforts to survive.
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E.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead is a vibrant, fantastical afterlife realm in Pixar's "Coco," where deceased ancestors live in a colorful city sustained by the memories of the living.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dawn of the Dead Description of subject: Dawn of the Dead is a landmark 1978 horror film directed by George A. Romero that helped define the modern zombie genre with its graphic gore, social satire, and influential special effects.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead
this entity surface form:
Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
subject surface form:
Thomas Vincent Savini
this entity surface form:
Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)