Trick or Treat
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"Trick or Treat" is a 1986 horror-comedy film about a heavy metal-obsessed teenager who unwittingly resurrects a dead rock star through a cursed record, directed by Charles Martin Smith.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trick or Treat canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7445797 — 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: Trick or Treat Context triple: [Charles Martin Smith, notableWork, Trick or Treat]
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A.
Halloween
Halloween is an annual celebration observed on October 31, characterized by costumes, trick-or-treating, spooky decorations, and themes of the supernatural and the macabre.
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B.
Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead
Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead is a horror comic anthology expanding the mythology of the Trick 'r Treat film universe through interconnected Halloween-themed stories.
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C.
Halloween Carnaval
Halloween Carnaval is a massive annual street festival and costume celebration held each Halloween in West Hollywood, California, known for its elaborate outfits, live entertainment, and LGBTQ+ inclusive party atmosphere.
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D.
All Hallows’ Eve
All Hallows’ Eve, commonly known as Halloween, is a traditional festival observed on the evening before All Saints’ Day, marked by customs such as costumes, trick-or-treating, and themed celebrations.
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E.
Halloween Haunt
Halloween Haunt is a large-scale, horror-themed nighttime event at Canada's Wonderland featuring haunted mazes, scare zones, live entertainment, and seasonal attractions during the Halloween season.
- 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: Trick or Treat Target entity description: "Trick or Treat" is a 1986 horror-comedy film about a heavy metal-obsessed teenager who unwittingly resurrects a dead rock star through a cursed record, directed by Charles Martin Smith.
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A.
Halloween
Halloween is an annual celebration observed on October 31, characterized by costumes, trick-or-treating, spooky decorations, and themes of the supernatural and the macabre.
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B.
Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead
Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead is a horror comic anthology expanding the mythology of the Trick 'r Treat film universe through interconnected Halloween-themed stories.
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C.
Halloween Carnaval
Halloween Carnaval is a massive annual street festival and costume celebration held each Halloween in West Hollywood, California, known for its elaborate outfits, live entertainment, and LGBTQ+ inclusive party atmosphere.
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D.
All Hallows’ Eve
All Hallows’ Eve, commonly known as Halloween, is a traditional festival observed on the evening before All Saints’ Day, marked by customs such as costumes, trick-or-treating, and themed celebrations.
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E.
Halloween Haunt
Halloween Haunt is a large-scale, horror-themed nighttime event at Canada's Wonderland featuring haunted mazes, scare zones, live entertainment, and seasonal attractions during the Halloween season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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horror comedy film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Ragman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonist | Sammi Curr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistPortrayedBy | Tony Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Doug Savant
NERFINISHED
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Elaine Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Simmons NERFINISHED ⓘ Glen Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisa Orgolini NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Price NERFINISHED ⓘ Ozzy Osbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert Elswit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Charles Martin Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jane Kurson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCameoBy |
Gene Simmons
NERFINISHED
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Ozzy Osbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live action ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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heavy metal horror ⓘ horror ⓘ supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasSoundtrackBy | Fastway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
heavy metal music
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occult ⓘ revenge ⓘ teenage bullying ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Eddie Weinbauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Fastway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1980s American horror cinema ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A heavy metal-obsessed teenager resurrects a dead rock star through a cursed record, unleashing supernatural terror. ⓘ |
| producer |
Joel Soisson
NERFINISHED
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Michael S. Murphey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Marc Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-10-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Joel Soisson
NERFINISHED
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Michael S. Murphey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | high school ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Sammi Curr 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: Trick or Treat Description of subject: "Trick or Treat" is a 1986 horror-comedy film about a heavy metal-obsessed teenager who unwittingly resurrects a dead rock star through a cursed record, directed by Charles Martin Smith.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.