The Devil-Doll
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The Devil-Doll is a 1936 horror film directed by Tod Browning, known for its macabre story involving miniaturized humans used for revenge.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Devil-Doll canonical | 3 |
| The Devil-Doll (1936 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6406387 — 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 Devil-Doll Context triple: [Vera Lewis, notableWork, The Devil-Doll]
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A.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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B.
Bride of the Monster
Bride of the Monster is a 1955 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, notorious for its campy production values and cult status among fans of so-bad-it’s-good cinema.
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C.
Phantom Lady
Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir crime drama, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel, about a man trying to clear his name of murder with the help of his loyal secretary.
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D.
Lady of Terror
Lady of Terror is an epithet of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, highlighting her fearsome power as a lioness deity of war, destruction, and divine retribution.
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E.
The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man is a classic 1941 Universal horror film about a man cursed to become a werewolf, widely regarded as one of the defining works of the werewolf genre.
- 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 Devil-Doll Target entity description: The Devil-Doll is a 1936 horror film directed by Tod Browning, known for its macabre story involving miniaturized humans used for revenge.
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A.
Vampira
Vampira was the gothic, horror-host television persona created and portrayed by actress Maila Nurmi in the 1950s, widely regarded as a pioneering figure in horror and camp culture.
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B.
Bride of the Monster
Bride of the Monster is a 1955 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, notorious for its campy production values and cult status among fans of so-bad-it’s-good cinema.
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C.
Phantom Lady
Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir crime drama, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel, about a man trying to clear his name of murder with the help of his loyal secretary.
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D.
Lady of Terror
Lady of Terror is an epithet of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, highlighting her fearsome power as a lioness deity of war, destruction, and divine retribution.
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E.
The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man is a classic 1941 Universal horror film about a man cursed to become a werewolf, widely regarded as one of the defining works of the werewolf genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Burn Witch Burn! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor |
Abraham Merritt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Garrett Fort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Leonard Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tod Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disguisedCharacter | Paul Lavond disguised as an old woman ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editor | Frederic Knudtson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| featuresCharacter |
Malita
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Lavond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmRatingSystemOriginal | Production Code era ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
horror ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | The Devil Doll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity disguise
ⓘ
mad science ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
macabre tone
ⓘ
use of special effects to depict miniaturized humans ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotElement | miniaturized humans used for revenge ⓘ |
| producer | Tod Browning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1936-07-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 79 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ernest Vajda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guy Endore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| stars |
Frank Lawton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lionel Barrymore NERFINISHED ⓘ Maureen O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Rafaela Ottiano NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Greig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studioLot | MGM Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | contemporary to 1930s ⓘ |
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 Devil-Doll Description of subject: The Devil-Doll is a 1936 horror film directed by Tod Browning, known for its macabre story involving miniaturized humans used for revenge.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Devil-Doll (1936 film)