House of Wax
E531351
House of Wax is a 1953 horror film, famous as one of the first major studio 3D movies and for showcasing Vincent Price in one of his most iconic roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| House of Wax canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5500313 — 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: House of Wax Context triple: [Vincent Price, notableWork, House of Wax]
-
A.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 pre-Code horror film noted for its early use of two-color Technicolor and its story about a deranged sculptor who encases victims in wax.
-
B.
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is a 1964 film noir–style thriller starring Bette Davis in dual roles as estranged twin sisters entangled in murder and identity theft.
-
C.
Apparition
Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
-
D.
Rue Morgue
Rue Morgue is a fictional Parisian street best known as the eerie setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s pioneering detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
-
E.
The 10th Victim
The 10th Victim is a 1965 Italian science fiction satire film set in a future where televised human hunting games have become popular entertainment.
- 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: House of Wax Target entity description: House of Wax is a 1953 horror film, famous as one of the first major studio 3D movies and for showcasing Vincent Price in one of his most iconic roles.
-
A.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 pre-Code horror film noted for its early use of two-color Technicolor and its story about a deranged sculptor who encases victims in wax.
-
B.
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is a 1964 film noir–style thriller starring Bette Davis in dual roles as estranged twin sisters entangled in murder and identity theft.
-
C.
Apparition
Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
-
D.
Rue Morgue
Rue Morgue is a fictional Parisian street best known as the eerie setting of Edgar Allan Poe’s pioneering detective story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.”
-
E.
The 10th Victim
The 10th Victim is a 1965 Italian science fiction satire film set in a future where televised human hunting games have become popular entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenreCycle | 1950s 3D film boom ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mystery of the Wax Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnOriginalReleaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Carolyn Jones
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Bronson NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Lovejoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Picerni NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyllis Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Cathy Gray
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Igor NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor Henry Jarrod NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Peverell Marley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor-like dye-transfer printing ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | André De Toth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| editor | Rudi Fehr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod | turn of the 20th century ⓘ |
| filmProcess | Natural Vision 3D NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | WarnerColor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasRemake | House of Wax (2005 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeMediaRelease |
Blu-ray
ⓘ
DVD ⓘ VHS ⓘ |
| leadActor | Vincent Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Buttolph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first major studio 3D films
ⓘ
featuring one of Vincent Price's most iconic roles ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A disfigured sculptor opens a wax museum and uses murder victims as the basis for his wax figures. ⓘ |
| producer | Bryan Foy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat |
2D
ⓘ
3D ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Crane Wilbur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| title | House of Wax 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: House of Wax Description of subject: House of Wax is a 1953 horror film, famous as one of the first major studio 3D movies and for showcasing Vincent Price in one of his most iconic roles.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.