The Old Dark House
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The Old Dark House is a 1932 horror-comedy film directed by James Whale, known for its atmospheric blend of macabre humor and suspense and featuring an ensemble cast including Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, and Gloria Stuart.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Old Dark House canonical | 4 |
| The Woman in Black | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7369978 — 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 Old Dark House Context triple: [Melvyn Douglas, notableWork, The Old Dark House]
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A.
The House of Fear
"The House of Fear" is a 1945 Sherlock Holmes mystery film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, involving a series of murders in a remote Scottish mansion.
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B.
The Haunted House
"The Haunted House" is one of the interconnected tales in Washington Irving’s 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists*, blending light Gothic elements with his characteristic humor and social observation.
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C.
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band known for blending thrash and melodic death metal elements into an aggressive, modern sound.
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D.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
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E.
Tales of Terror
"Tales of Terror" is a 1962 horror anthology film directed by Roger Corman, adapting several Edgar Allan Poe stories and featuring performances by Vincent Price and Debra Paget.
- 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 Old Dark House Target entity description: The Old Dark House is a 1932 horror-comedy film directed by James Whale, known for its atmospheric blend of macabre humor and suspense and featuring an ensemble cast including Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, and Gloria Stuart.
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A.
The House of Fear
"The House of Fear" is a 1945 Sherlock Holmes mystery film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, involving a series of murders in a remote Scottish mansion.
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B.
The Haunted House
"The Haunted House" is one of the interconnected tales in Washington Irving’s 1822 collection *Bracebridge Hall; or, The Humorists*, blending light Gothic elements with his characteristic humor and social observation.
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C.
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band known for blending thrash and melodic death metal elements into an aggressive, modern sound.
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D.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
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E.
Tales of Terror
"Tales of Terror" is a 1962 horror anthology film directed by Roger Corman, adapting several Edgar Allan Poe stories and featuring performances by Vincent Price and Debra Paget.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Benighted NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | J. B. Priestley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Horace Femm
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margaret Waverton NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Waverton NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Femm NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir William Porterhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur Edeson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | James Whale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| era | Pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features |
dark humor
ⓘ
ensemble cast ⓘ gothic horror elements ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
horror ⓘ horror comedy ⓘ |
| hasRemake | The Old Dark House (1963 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | uncredited stock music ⓘ |
| narrativeElement |
eccentric family
ⓘ
stormy night ⓘ stranded travelers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
atmospheric cinematography
ⓘ
blend of macabre humor and suspense ⓘ early horror-comedy tone ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1932-10-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 72 ⓘ |
| setting |
old isolated mansion
ⓘ
remote Welsh countryside ⓘ |
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| stars |
Boris Karloff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Laughton NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Thesiger NERFINISHED ⓘ Eva Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Gloria Stuart NERFINISHED ⓘ Lilian Bond NERFINISHED ⓘ Melvyn Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Massey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Old Dark House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Old Dark House Description of subject: The Old Dark House is a 1932 horror-comedy film directed by James Whale, known for its atmospheric blend of macabre humor and suspense and featuring an ensemble cast including Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff, and Gloria Stuart.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Woman in Black