The Host
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The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film by director Bong Joon-ho that blends creature-feature horror with dark comedy and social commentary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Host canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5325737 — 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 Host Context triple: [Bong Joon-ho, notableWork, The Host]
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A.
The Host
The Host is a 2013 science fiction film, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, in which Diane Kruger plays a key role in a future where alien “souls” have taken over human bodies.
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B.
The Host
The Host is a character in the action-strategy game Minecraft Legends who guides and assists the player as they defend the Overworld from invading Piglins.
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C.
The Cabin in the Woods
The Cabin in the Woods is a 2012 meta-horror film that deconstructs and satirizes classic horror movie tropes through a self-aware, genre-bending storyline.
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D.
The Happening
The Happening is a 2008 science fiction thriller film directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a mysterious, deadly phenomenon that drives people to commit mass suicide.
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E.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
- 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 Host Target entity description: The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film by director Bong Joon-ho that blends creature-feature horror with dark comedy and social commentary.
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A.
The Host
The Host is a 2013 science fiction film, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, in which Diane Kruger plays a key role in a future where alien “souls” have taken over human bodies.
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B.
The Host
The Host is a character in the action-strategy game Minecraft Legends who guides and assists the player as they defend the Overworld from invading Piglins.
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C.
The Cabin in the Woods
The Cabin in the Woods is a 2012 meta-horror film that deconstructs and satirizes classic horror movie tropes through a self-aware, genre-bending storyline.
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D.
The Happening
The Happening is a 2008 science fiction thriller film directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a mysterious, deadly phenomenon that drives people to commit mass suicide.
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E.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
South Korean film
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film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeSuccess | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bae Doona
NERFINISHED
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Byun Hee-bong NERFINISHED ⓘ Go Ah-sung NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Jae-eung NERFINISHED ⓘ Oh Dal-su NERFINISHED ⓘ Park Hae-il NERFINISHED ⓘ Song Kang-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Kim Hyung-goo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Korea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Bong Joon-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Showbox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Kim Sun-min NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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horror ⓘ monster film ⓘ science fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
environmental pollution
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family bonds ⓘ government incompetence ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Park Gang-du
NERFINISHED
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Park Hie-bong NERFINISHED ⓘ Park Hyeon-seo NERFINISHED ⓘ Park Nam-il NERFINISHED ⓘ Park Nam-joo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Lee Byung-woo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending horror with dark comedy
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influential modern Korean genre cinema ⓘ social and political satire ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Korean ⓘ |
| producer | Choi Yong-bae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Chungeorahm Film
NERFINISHED
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Showbox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2006 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 119 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Baek Chul-hyun
NERFINISHED
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Bong Joon-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ Ha Won-jun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation |
Han River
NERFINISHED
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Seoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
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 Host Description of subject: The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film by director Bong Joon-ho that blends creature-feature horror with dark comedy and social commentary.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.