The Invisible Ray (1936 film)
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The Invisible Ray (1936 film) is a 1936 science fiction horror movie starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, centered on a scientist who gains deadly powers from a mysterious cosmic radiation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Invisible Ray (1936 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8889157 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Invisible Ray (1936 film) Context triple: [Garrett Fort, wroteScreenplayFor, The Invisible Ray (1936 film)]
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One Step Beyond
One Step Beyond is the debut studio album by British ska band Madness, known for helping popularize the 2 Tone ska revival movement in the late 1970s.
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B.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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C.
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes is a 1963 American science fiction horror film about a doctor whose experimental eye treatment gives him increasingly uncontrollable and disturbing x-ray vision.
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D.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930 film)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930 film) is a French mystery movie adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic locked-room detective novel, directed by and starring Charles de Rochefort.
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E.
Griffin the invisible man
Griffin the invisible man is a comedic, unseen character in the Hotel Transylvania animated film series, known for his transparent body, floating accessories, and awkward charm.
- 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 Invisible Ray (1936 film) Target entity description: The Invisible Ray (1936 film) is a 1936 science fiction horror movie starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, centered on a scientist who gains deadly powers from a mysterious cosmic radiation.
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A.
One Step Beyond
One Step Beyond is the debut studio album by British ska band Madness, known for helping popularize the 2 Tone ska revival movement in the late 1970s.
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B.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a classic science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a scientist who discovers how to become invisible but descends into madness and violence as a result.
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C.
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes is a 1963 American science fiction horror film about a doctor whose experimental eye treatment gives him increasingly uncontrollable and disturbing x-ray vision.
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D.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930 film)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930 film) is a French mystery movie adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic locked-room detective novel, directed by and starring Charles de Rochefort.
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E.
Griffin the invisible man
Griffin the invisible man is a comedic, unseen character in the Hotel Transylvania animated film series, known for his transparent body, floating accessories, and awkward charm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Lambert Hillyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Otto Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| featuresCharacter |
Diana Rukh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Felix Benet NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cosmic radiation
ⓘ
mad scientist ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| hasVisualEffect | glowing radiation effect on protagonist ⓘ |
| includesElement |
deadly touch caused by radiation
ⓘ
meteorite from outer space ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dr. Janos Rukh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | scientist corrupted by power ⓘ |
| notableFor | pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Universal horror films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | scientist gaining deadly powers from cosmic radiation ⓘ |
| producer | Carl Laemmle Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| ratingSystem | Production Code era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1936-01-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Howard J. Green
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Colton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| starring |
Bela Lugosi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beulah Bondi NERFINISHED ⓘ Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ Frances Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Lawton NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Kingsford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | John Colton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Invisible Ray 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 Invisible Ray (1936 film) Description of subject: The Invisible Ray (1936 film) is a 1936 science fiction horror movie starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, centered on a scientist who gains deadly powers from a mysterious cosmic radiation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.