Dead Silence
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Dead Silence is a 2007 supernatural horror film centered on a cursed ventriloquist’s dummy and a vengeful ghost, directed by James Wan and known for its eerie atmosphere and twist ending.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Silence canonical | 1 |
| Dead Silence (2007 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7072540 — 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: Dead Silence Context triple: [Donnie Wahlberg, film, Dead Silence]
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A.
Silent Scream
"Silent Scream" is a 1990 British television film in which Iain Glen delivers an acclaimed performance as convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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B.
Silent House
Silent House is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that explores family tensions and Turkey’s turbulent political and social changes on the eve of the 1980 military coup.
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C.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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D.
Behind Her Eyes
Behind Her Eyes is a British psychological thriller drama, based on Sarah Pinborough’s novel, that follows a single mother entangled in a dangerous love triangle marked by dark secrets and supernatural twists.
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E.
The Strangers
The Strangers is a 2008 horror film about a couple terrorized in their remote vacation home by three masked intruders.
- 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: Dead Silence Target entity description: Dead Silence is a 2007 supernatural horror film centered on a cursed ventriloquist’s dummy and a vengeful ghost, directed by James Wan and known for its eerie atmosphere and twist ending.
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A.
Silent Scream
"Silent Scream" is a 1990 British television film in which Iain Glen delivers an acclaimed performance as convicted murderer Larry Winters.
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B.
Silent House
Silent House is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that explores family tensions and Turkey’s turbulent political and social changes on the eve of the 1980 military coup.
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C.
The Fog
The Fog is a 1980 supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, centered on a coastal town haunted by vengeful ghosts who return shrouded in an eerie, glowing mist.
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D.
Behind Her Eyes
Behind Her Eyes is a British psychological thriller drama, based on Sarah Pinborough’s novel, that follows a single mother entangled in a dangerous love triangle marked by dark secrets and supernatural twists.
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E.
The Strangers
The Strangers is a 2008 horror film about a couple terrorized in their remote vacation home by three masked intruders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Amber Valletta
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bob Gunton NERFINISHED ⓘ Donnie Wahlberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Heney NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Fairman NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Kwanten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John R. Leonetti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | James Wan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Michael N. Knue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Billy the dummy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Ontario
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasTagline | You scream. You die. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
curses
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revenge from beyond the grave ⓘ ventriloquism ⓘ |
| hasTwistEnding | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Ryan Kwanten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Detective Jim Lipton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ella Ashen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamie Ashen NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Charlie Clouser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
eerie atmosphere
ⓘ
twist ending ⓘ |
| partOf | James Wan filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
cursed ventriloquist dummy
ⓘ
vengeful ghost ⓘ |
| producer |
Gregg Hoffman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Burg NERFINISHED ⓘ Oren Koules NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Twisted Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-03-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| setting | Raven’s Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
James Wan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leigh Whannell 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: Dead Silence Description of subject: Dead Silence is a 2007 supernatural horror film centered on a cursed ventriloquist’s dummy and a vengeful ghost, directed by James Wan and known for its eerie atmosphere and twist ending.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.