Q – The Winged Serpent
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Q – The Winged Serpent is a 1982 horror film about a giant winged Aztec god-like creature terrorizing New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Q – The Winged Serpent canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6511805 — 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: Q – The Winged Serpent Context triple: [Candy Clark, notableWork, Q – The Winged Serpent]
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A.
“Obsidian Serpent”
“Obsidian Serpent” is the English translation of the Nahuatl name Itzcoatl, borne by a prominent Aztec ruler who significantly expanded the Aztec Empire.
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B.
World Serpent
The World Serpent is a colossal sea serpent from Norse mythology that encircles the earth and is fated to battle Thor during Ragnarök.
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C.
The Scorpion
"The Scorpion" is a dramatic musical track from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 2002 science fiction film Star Trek: Nemesis.
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D.
Flying Dragon
Flying Dragon is the English translation of the Japanese name "Hiryu," commonly associated with fast, agile characters, vehicles, or entities in Japanese media and games.
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E.
The Dragon
"The Dragon" is a track from Vangelis's 1979 electronic music album "China," blending synthesizer-driven soundscapes with an evocative, atmospheric style.
- 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: Q – The Winged Serpent Target entity description: Q – The Winged Serpent is a 1982 horror film about a giant winged Aztec god-like creature terrorizing New York City.
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A.
“Obsidian Serpent”
“Obsidian Serpent” is the English translation of the Nahuatl name Itzcoatl, borne by a prominent Aztec ruler who significantly expanded the Aztec Empire.
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B.
World Serpent
The World Serpent is a colossal sea serpent from Norse mythology that encircles the earth and is fated to battle Thor during Ragnarök.
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C.
The Scorpion
"The Scorpion" is a dramatic musical track from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 2002 science fiction film Star Trek: Nemesis.
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D.
Flying Dragon
Flying Dragon is the English translation of the Japanese name "Hiryu," commonly associated with fast, agile characters, vehicles, or entities in Japanese media and games.
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E.
The Dragon
"The Dragon" is a track from Vangelis's 1979 electronic music album "China," blending synthesizer-driven soundscapes with an evocative, atmospheric style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Q
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Q: The Winged Serpent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Aztec mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Fred Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creatureType | giant winged serpent ⓘ |
| depicts |
human sacrifices
ⓘ
police investigation ⓘ |
| director | Larry Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Film Distribution Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Armond Lebowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCreature | Quetzalcoatl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
ancient gods in the modern world
ⓘ
crime and desperation in a big city ⓘ urban terror ⓘ |
| inUniverseDeity | Aztec god-like creature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Detective Powell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Detective Shepard NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Robert Ragland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableElement |
blend of police procedural and monster movie
ⓘ
stop-motion creature effects ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A giant winged serpent nests atop a New York City skyscraper and terrorizes the city while police investigate ritual murders linked to Aztec worship. ⓘ |
| producer | Paul Kurta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Larco Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 93 ⓘ |
| screenDebutInFranchise | first film featuring Larry Cohen’s version of Quetzalcoatl ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| stars |
Candy Clark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Carradine NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred J. Scollay NERFINISHED ⓘ Malachy McCourt NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Moriarty NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Roundtree NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Van Vleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary 1980s ⓘ |
| writer | Larry Cohen 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: Q – The Winged Serpent Description of subject: Q – The Winged Serpent is a 1982 horror film about a giant winged Aztec god-like creature terrorizing New York City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.