The Mad Ghoul
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The Mad Ghoul is a 1943 Universal Pictures horror film about a deranged scientist who turns his assistant into a zombie-like creature to commit grave robberies and murder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mad Ghoul canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7562038 — 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 Mad Ghoul Context triple: [Gertrude Michael, performedIn, The Mad Ghoul]
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A.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Night of the Ghouls
Night of the Ghouls is a 1959 low-budget horror film written and directed by Ed Wood, known for its campy style and status as a cult classic among fans of B-movie cinema.
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C.
The Yawning Grave
"The Yawning Grave" is a haunting, atmospheric folk-rock song by Lord Huron known for its ghostly narrative and cinematic, Western-tinged sound.
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D.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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E.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
- 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 Mad Ghoul Target entity description: The Mad Ghoul is a 1943 Universal Pictures horror film about a deranged scientist who turns his assistant into a zombie-like creature to commit grave robberies and murder.
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A.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Night of the Ghouls
Night of the Ghouls is a 1959 low-budget horror film written and directed by Ed Wood, known for its campy style and status as a cult classic among fans of B-movie cinema.
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C.
The Yawning Grave
"The Yawning Grave" is a haunting, atmospheric folk-rock song by Lord Huron known for its ghostly narrative and cinematic, Western-tinged sound.
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D.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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E.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Alfred Morris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Isabel Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Allison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | James P. Hogan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Edward Curtiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1940s American horror cinema ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
mad scientist film ⓘ zombie film ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Mad Ghoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
grave robbing
ⓘ
mad science ⓘ mind control ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hans J. Salter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Universal horror films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A deranged scientist uses an ancient Mayan gas to turn his assistant into a zombie-like creature to commit grave robberies and murder. ⓘ |
| producer | Ben Pivar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1943-11-12 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 65 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Brenda Weisberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Gangelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary United States ⓘ |
| soundMix | mono ⓘ |
| starring |
David Bruce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Evelyn Ankers NERFINISHED ⓘ George Zucco NERFINISHED ⓘ Milburn Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Turhan Bey 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: The Mad Ghoul Description of subject: The Mad Ghoul is a 1943 Universal Pictures horror film about a deranged scientist who turns his assistant into a zombie-like creature to commit grave robberies and murder.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.