Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a dark psychological drama film, adapted from Patrick Süskind’s novel, about an obsessive perfumer in 18th-century France who becomes a serial killer in pursuit of the perfect scent.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer canonical | 7 |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4989293 — 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: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Context triple: [Ben Whishaw, notableWork, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]
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A.
Perfume
Perfume is a Japanese pop girl group known for their futuristic electro-pop sound, synchronized choreography, and influential role in shaping modern J-pop.
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B.
Lady of Perfume
Lady of Perfume is an epithet of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, highlighting her association with fragrance, sensuality, and protective femininity.
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C.
You Were Never Really Here
You Were Never Really Here is a 2017 psychological thriller film directed by Lynne Ramsay, following a traumatized veteran turned brutal fixer who is hired to rescue a missing girl.
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D.
The Neon Demon
The Neon Demon is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn that explores the dark, surreal, and violent underbelly of the Los Angeles fashion industry.
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E.
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is a 2014 neo-noir thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an amoral crime videographer prowling Los Angeles for sensational footage.
- 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: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Target entity description: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a dark psychological drama film, adapted from Patrick Süskind’s novel, about an obsessive perfumer in 18th-century France who becomes a serial killer in pursuit of the perfect scent.
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A.
Perfume
Perfume is a Japanese pop girl group known for their futuristic electro-pop sound, synchronized choreography, and influential role in shaping modern J-pop.
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B.
Lady of Perfume
Lady of Perfume is an epithet of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, highlighting her association with fragrance, sensuality, and protective femininity.
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C.
You Were Never Really Here
You Were Never Really Here is a 2017 psychological thriller film directed by Lynne Ramsay, following a traumatized veteran turned brutal fixer who is hired to rescue a missing girl.
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D.
The Neon Demon
The Neon Demon is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn that explores the dark, surreal, and violent underbelly of the Los Angeles fashion industry.
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E.
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is a 2014 neo-noir thriller film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an amoral crime videographer prowling Los Angeles for sensational footage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime film
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film ⓘ psychological drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Perfume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Patrick Süskind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Frank Griebe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| director | Tom Tykwer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Constantin Film
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Alexander Berner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Barcelona
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Girona NERFINISHED ⓘ Provence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
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murder ⓘ obsession ⓘ sensory perception ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jean-Baptiste Grenouille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Johnny Klimek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reinhold Heil NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Tykwer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narratedBy | John Hurt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
European Film Award for Best Cinematographer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
European Film Award for Best Composer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalWorkPublicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| producer |
Bernd Eichinger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martin Moszkowicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 147 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Andrew Birkin
NERFINISHED
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Bernd Eichinger NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Tykwer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 18th century ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Rickman
NERFINISHED
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Ben Whishaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Dustin Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Hurd-Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Description of subject: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a dark psychological drama film, adapted from Patrick Süskind’s novel, about an obsessive perfumer in 18th-century France who becomes a serial killer in pursuit of the perfect scent.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)