The Beast
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The Beast is a 1996 American made-for-television miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel about a giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Beast canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7445793 — 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)
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Target entity: The Beast Context triple: [Charles Martin Smith, notableWork, The Beast]
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A.
The Beast
The Beast is a song by Bill Callahan featured on his album "Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest."
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B.
The Beast
The Beast was the fearsome nickname of Jimmie Foxx, a legendary power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger of the early 20th century.
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C.
the Beast
The Beast is a symbolic, apocalyptic figure in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, often interpreted as representing oppressive worldly powers or ultimate evil opposing God.
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D.
Beast
Beast is a thriller novel by Peter Benchley that centers on a deadly giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
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E.
Beast
Beast is a brilliant mutant scientist and acrobatic fighter known for his blue-furred, beast-like appearance and long-standing membership in the X-Men and Avengers.
- 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 Beast Target entity description: The Beast is a 1996 American made-for-television miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel about a giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
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A.
The Beast
The Beast was the fearsome nickname of Jimmie Foxx, a legendary power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger of the early 20th century.
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B.
The Beast
The Beast is a song by Bill Callahan featured on his album "Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest."
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C.
the Beast
The Beast is a symbolic, apocalyptic figure in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, often interpreted as representing oppressive worldly powers or ultimate evil opposing God.
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D.
Beast
Beast is a brilliant mutant scientist and acrobatic fighter known for his blue-furred, beast-like appearance and long-standing membership in the X-Men and Avengers.
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E.
Beast
Beast is the short name of the Brampton Beast, a former professional ice hockey team based in Brampton, Ontario, that competed in the ECHL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television miniseries ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Peter Benchley’s The Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Peter Benchley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Beast (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Eric Van Haren Noman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Don Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jeff Bleckner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Jerrold L. Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
David Gerber
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terry Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror television film
ⓘ
monster film ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
DVD
ⓘ
VHS ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | giant squid ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 2 ⓘ |
| originalAirDate |
April 28, 1996
ⓘ
April 29, 1996 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| producer |
Frank von Zerneck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert M. Sertner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Von Zerneck Sertner Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtime | 176 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
J. T. Allen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Benchley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Pacific Northwest coastal town ⓘ |
| stars |
Charles Martin Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Denis Arndt NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Sillas NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Missy Crider NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronny Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ William Petersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject | giant squid attacks ⓘ |
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 Beast Description of subject: The Beast is a 1996 American made-for-television miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel about a giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.