The Sealed Room
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The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sealed Room canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5246668 — 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: The Sealed Room Context triple: [Linda Arvidson, notableWork, The Sealed Room]
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A.
The Black Room
The Black Room is a 1935 gothic horror film starring Boris Karloff, known for its tale of twin brothers, prophecy, and murder in a sinister European castle.
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B.
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, based on Lynne Reid Banks’s novel, about a young unmarried pregnant woman who moves into a shabby London bedsit and was acclaimed for Leslie Caron’s powerful performance.
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C.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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D.
The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened is a political memoir detailing former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s insider account of the Trump administration’s foreign policy and internal decision-making.
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E.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme.
- 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: The Sealed Room Target entity description: The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
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A.
The Black Room
The Black Room is a 1935 gothic horror film starring Boris Karloff, known for its tale of twin brothers, prophecy, and murder in a sinister European castle.
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B.
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, based on Lynne Reid Banks’s novel, about a young unmarried pregnant woman who moves into a shabby London bedsit and was acclaimed for Leslie Caron’s powerful performance.
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C.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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D.
The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened is a political memoir detailing former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton’s insider account of the Trump administration’s foreign policy and internal decision-making.
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E.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | silent short film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Bricklayer’s Story
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Cask of Amontillado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | G. W. Bitzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | D. W. Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Biograph Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early cinema ⓘ |
| filmColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmFormat | short film ⓘ |
| hasFilmEditingStyle | early narrative continuity editing ⓘ |
| hasFilmTechnique |
early cinematic suspense
ⓘ
psychological tension ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
psychological drama
ⓘ
suspense film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of cinematic suspense
ⓘ
early psychological drama in film ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film ⓘ |
| partOf | D. W. Griffith filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A jealous king seals his queen and her lover in a room to die. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Biograph Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1909 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 11 ⓘ |
| setting | medieval court ⓘ |
| stars |
Arthur V. Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry B. Walthall NERFINISHED ⓘ James Kirkwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Arvidson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mack Sennett NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion Leonard NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Moore 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: The Sealed Room Description of subject: The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.