The Experiment
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The Experiment is a psychological thriller film about a group of men participating in a simulated prison study that spirals violently out of control.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Experiment canonical | 3 |
| The Experiment (2010 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6296641 — 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 Experiment Context triple: [Beau Flynn, notableWork, The Experiment]
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A.
The Experiment
"The Experiment" is a work by David Winkler, likely a novel or literary piece that showcases his style and themes as an author.
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B.
The Second Experiment
The Second Experiment is a science fiction novel by Janet Asimov that continues her exploration of advanced psychology, human evolution, and ethical dilemmas in futuristic settings.
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C.
Experimenter
Experimenter is a 2015 biographical drama film about social psychologist Stanley Milgram and his controversial obedience experiments.
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D.
The Social Experiment
The Social Experiment is a Chicago-based musical collective led by Chance the Rapper, known for its genre-blending, jazz- and soul-infused hip-hop productions and collaborative projects.
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E.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
- 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 Experiment Target entity description: The Experiment is a psychological thriller film about a group of men participating in a simulated prison study that spirals violently out of control.
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A.
The Experiment
"The Experiment" is a work by David Winkler, likely a novel or literary piece that showcases his style and themes as an author.
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B.
The Second Experiment
The Second Experiment is a science fiction novel by Janet Asimov that continues her exploration of advanced psychology, human evolution, and ethical dilemmas in futuristic settings.
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C.
Experimenter
Experimenter is a 2015 biographical drama film about social psychologist Stanley Milgram and his controversial obedience experiments.
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D.
The Social Experiment
The Social Experiment is a Chicago-based musical collective led by Chance the Rapper, known for its genre-blending, jazz- and soul-infused hip-hop productions and collaborative projects.
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E.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Das Experiment (2001 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Black Box (novel)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Das Experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford prison experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Amy Vincent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Paul Scheuring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | direct-to-video ⓘ |
| distributor |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stage 6 Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Roger Barton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Des Moines, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological thriller
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| hasOriginalWorkLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Everyone has a breaking point. ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Barris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Travis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Graeme Revell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of men participate in a paid psychological study simulating a prison environment that escalates into violence and loss of control. ⓘ |
| producer |
Adrian Lyne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beau Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ Marty Adelstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Inferno Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madhouse Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2010-09-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Scheuring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | simulated prison ⓘ |
| starring |
Adrien Brody
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cam Gigandet NERFINISHED ⓘ Clifton Collins Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Forest Whitaker NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
abuse of power
ⓘ
authority and obedience ⓘ morality under pressure ⓘ psychological breakdown ⓘ |
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 Experiment Description of subject: The Experiment is a psychological thriller film about a group of men participating in a simulated prison study that spirals violently out of control.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Experiment (2010 film)