Halloween (1978 film)
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Halloween (1978 film) is a landmark 1978 American slasher film directed by John Carpenter that helped define the modern horror genre through its iconic masked killer Michael Myers and suspense-driven style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Halloween (1978 film) canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5019337 — 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: Halloween (1978 film) Context triple: [John Carpenter films, hasWork, Halloween (1978 film)]
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American horror film in the Halloween franchise that departs from the Michael Myers storyline to tell a standalone tale about a sinister Halloween mask company.
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B.
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is a landmark 1980 American slasher film that helped popularize the summer-camp horror subgenre and introduced the iconic character Jason Voorhees.
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Halloween II
Halloween II is a 1981 slasher film that continues the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode on the same night as the original Halloween, known for its intense hospital setting and graphic violence.
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D.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a landmark 1984 American slasher film that introduced the iconic dream-stalking killer Freddy Krueger and became one of the most influential horror movies of its era.
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E.
Halloween (2018 film)
Halloween (2018 film) is a 2018 slasher movie that serves as a direct sequel to the 1978 original, bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in a modern confrontation with Michael Myers.
- 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: Halloween (1978 film) Target entity description: Halloween (1978 film) is a landmark 1978 American slasher film directed by John Carpenter that helped define the modern horror genre through its iconic masked killer Michael Myers and suspense-driven style.
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A.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American horror film in the Halloween franchise that departs from the Michael Myers storyline to tell a standalone tale about a sinister Halloween mask company.
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B.
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is a landmark 1980 American slasher film that helped popularize the summer-camp horror subgenre and introduced the iconic character Jason Voorhees.
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C.
Halloween II
Halloween II is a 1981 slasher film that continues the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode on the same night as the original Halloween, known for its intense hospital setting and graphic violence.
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D.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a landmark 1984 American slasher film that introduced the iconic dream-stalking killer Freddy Krueger and became one of the most influential horror movies of its era.
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E.
Halloween (2018 film)
Halloween (2018 film) is a 2018 slasher movie that serves as a direct sequel to the 1978 original, bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in a modern confrontation with Michael Myers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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independent film ⓘ slasher film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeUSD | 70000000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 300000 ⓘ |
| cinemaReleaseFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Dean Cundey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Tommy Lee Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Compass International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Aquarius Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tommy Lee Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedOn | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Sam Loomis
NERFINISHED
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Laurie Strode NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Pasadena, California
NERFINISHED
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South Pasadena, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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slasher film ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Halloween II (1981 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme | stalking and voyeurism ⓘ |
| influenced |
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film)
NERFINISHED
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Friday the 13th (1980 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
iconic Michael Myers mask
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minimalist synthesizer score ⓘ use of suspense over graphic violence ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping popularize the slasher genre
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low-budget high-grossing success ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Halloween (franchise) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Debra Hill
NERFINISHED
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John Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Compass International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rating | R ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1978-10-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenDebutOf | Jamie Lee Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Haddonfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Donald Pleasence
NERFINISHED
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Jamie Lee Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Loomis NERFINISHED ⓘ P. J. Soles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting |
1963
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1978 ⓘ |
| writer |
Debra Hill
NERFINISHED
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John Carpenter 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: Halloween (1978 film) Description of subject: Halloween (1978 film) is a landmark 1978 American slasher film directed by John Carpenter that helped define the modern horror genre through its iconic masked killer Michael Myers and suspense-driven style.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Halloween (2007 film)
subject surface form:
Halloween (2007 film)