The Body Snatcher
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The Body Snatcher is a 1945 horror film, based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story, about a sinister cabman who supplies corpses to a medical school in 19th-century Edinburgh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Body Snatcher canonical | 4 |
| The Body Snatcher (1945 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6662877 — 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 Body Snatcher Context triple: [Val Lewton, produced, The Body Snatcher]
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A.
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British Hammer Horror film that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story and helped launch Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to international horror stardom.
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B.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
The Ghost of Frankenstein is a 1942 Universal Pictures horror film in the classic Frankenstein series, featuring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Monster and continuing the studio’s iconic monster-movie legacy.
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C.
Revenge of the Creature
Revenge of the Creature is a 1955 American science-fiction horror film and the first sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed by Jack Arnold.
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D.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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E.
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.
- 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 Body Snatcher Target entity description: The Body Snatcher is a 1945 horror film, based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story, about a sinister cabman who supplies corpses to a medical school in 19th-century Edinburgh.
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A.
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British Hammer Horror film that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein story and helped launch Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to international horror stardom.
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B.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
The Ghost of Frankenstein is a 1942 Universal Pictures horror film in the classic Frankenstein series, featuring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Monster and continuing the studio’s iconic monster-movie legacy.
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C.
Revenge of the Creature
Revenge of the Creature is a 1955 American science-fiction horror film and the first sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed by Jack Arnold.
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D.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Body Snatcher (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bela Lugosi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bill Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyril Delevanti NERFINISHED ⓘ Donna Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Edith Atwater NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Daniell NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Wolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Robards Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Corday NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharyn Moffett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Body Snatcher (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Robert De Grasse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Robert Wise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | J. R. Whittredge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEditingStyle | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
grave robbing
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ medical ethics ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| leadActor | Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Roy Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaboration of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A sinister cabman supplies corpses to a medical school in 19th-century Edinburgh. ⓘ |
| producer | Val Lewton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1945-05-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 77 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Philip MacDonald
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Val Lewton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| title | The Body Snatcher 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: The Body Snatcher Description of subject: The Body Snatcher is a 1945 horror film, based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story, about a sinister cabman who supplies corpses to a medical school in 19th-century Edinburgh.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Body Snatcher (1945 film)