Edward Scissorhands
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Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 gothic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton about a gentle artificial man with scissors for hands who struggles to find acceptance in a suburban community.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Scissorhands canonical | 32 |
| Edward Scissorhands (character) | 2 |
| Edward Scissorhands (film) | 2 |
| Edward Scissorhands (1990 film) | 1 |
| Edward Scissorhands score | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T504959 — 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: Edward Scissorhands Context triple: [Tim Burton, notableWork, Edward Scissorhands]
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A.
Fink
Fink is an open-source package management system that brings a wide range of Unix and open-source software to macOS by compiling and distributing it in a convenient, Debian-like format.
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B.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 dark fantasy-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, known for its quirky gothic style and the mischievous bio-exorcist played by Michael Keaton.
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C.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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D.
King Baby
King Baby is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, known for its observational humor about everyday life, food, and parenting.
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E.
Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In is a critically acclaimed 2008 Swedish romantic horror film about the bond between a bullied boy and a mysterious child vampire.
- 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: Edward Scissorhands Target entity description: Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 gothic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton about a gentle artificial man with scissors for hands who struggles to find acceptance in a suburban community.
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A.
Fink
Fink is an open-source package management system that brings a wide range of Unix and open-source software to macOS by compiling and distributing it in a convenient, Debian-like format.
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B.
Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 dark fantasy-comedy film directed by Tim Burton, known for its quirky gothic style and the mischievous bio-exorcist played by Michael Keaton.
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C.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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D.
King Baby
King Baby is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, known for its observational humor about everyday life, food, and parenting.
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E.
Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In is a critically acclaimed 2008 Swedish romantic horror film about the bond between a bullied boy and a mysterious child vampire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
ⓘ
film ⓘ gothic fantasy film ⓘ romantic fantasy film ⓘ |
| award | Academy Award nomination for Best Makeup ⓘ |
| characterTypeOfEdward | artificial man ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Stefan Czapsky ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tim Burton ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| editedBy | Richard Halsey ⓘ |
| genre |
Christmas film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ gothic film ⓘ romance film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Edward Scissorhands
self-link
ⓘ
Kim Boggs ⓘ Peg Boggs ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Danny Elfman ⓘ |
| narrativeFrame | story told as a flashback by an elderly Kim ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Danny Elfman score
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collaboration between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp ⓘ distinctive gothic visual style ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An artificial man with scissors for hands is taken from isolation into a pastel suburban community where he struggles to fit in and falls in love. ⓘ |
| producer |
Denise Di Novi
ⓘ
Tim Burton ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
Tim Burton Productions ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1990-12-07 ⓘ |
| releaseRegion | North America ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| setIn |
fictional American town
ⓘ
suburbia ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Arkin
ⓘ
Anthony Michael Hall ⓘ Dianne Wiest ⓘ Johnny Depp ⓘ Vincent Price ⓘ Winona Ryder ⓘ |
| storyBy | Tim Burton ⓘ |
| theme |
acceptance
ⓘ
conformity ⓘ isolation ⓘ outsider identity ⓘ prejudice ⓘ |
| writer | Caroline Thompson ⓘ |
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: Edward Scissorhands Description of subject: Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 gothic fantasy film directed by Tim Burton about a gentle artificial man with scissors for hands who struggles to find acceptance in a suburban community.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edward Scissorhands score
this entity surface form:
Edward Scissorhands (character)
subject surface form:
Tim Burton
this entity surface form:
Edward Scissorhands (character)
this entity surface form:
Edward Scissorhands (film)
this entity surface form:
Edward Scissorhands (film)
this entity surface form:
Edward Scissorhands (1990 film)