Escape Clause
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"Escape Clause" is an episode of the classic television anthology series The Twilight Zone, centered on a hypochondriac who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Escape Clause canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9794910 — 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: Escape Clause Context triple: [Walking Distance, followedBy, Escape Clause]
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A.
Escape
Escape is a landmark rock album by Journey, best known for hits like "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Open Arms" that helped define the band's mainstream success in the early 1980s.
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B.
Escape!
"Escape!" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, part of his I, Robot collection, that explores the complexities and unintended consequences of advanced positronic computer intelligence.
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C.
Quick Escape
Quick Escape is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam from their 2020 album "Gigaton."
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D.
The Escape
"The Escape" is a 1914 silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith, featuring Mae Marsh in a prominent role.
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E.
No Escape
"No Escape" is a musical track from Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed score for the 1968 science fiction film "Planet of the Apes."
- 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: Escape Clause Target entity description: "Escape Clause" is an episode of the classic television anthology series The Twilight Zone, centered on a hypochondriac who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality.
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A.
Escape
Escape is a landmark rock album by Journey, best known for hits like "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Open Arms" that helped define the band's mainstream success in the early 1980s.
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B.
Escape!
"Escape!" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, part of his I, Robot collection, that explores the complexities and unintended consequences of advanced positronic computer intelligence.
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C.
Quick Escape
Quick Escape is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam from their 2020 album "Gigaton."
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D.
The Escape
"The Escape" is a 1914 silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith, featuring Mae Marsh in a prominent role.
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E.
No Escape
"No Escape" is a musical track from Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed score for the 1968 science fiction film "Planet of the Apes."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television episode ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
David Wayne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Raymond Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Gomez NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Christine NERFINISHED ⓘ Werner Klemperer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Faustian bargain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
consequences of greed ⓘ immortality ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George T. Clemens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closingNarrationBy | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creatorOfSeries | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| devilCharacterName | Cadwallader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Mitchell Leisen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Ethel Bedeker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Bedeker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastTimeSlot | Friday 10:00 PM (Eastern) on CBS GENERATED ⓘ |
| followedByEpisode | The Lonely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | The Twilight Zone franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology television
ⓘ
fantasy television ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasAnthologyFormat | true ⓘ |
| hasMoral | bargains for immortality and invulnerability can lead to loss of meaning and freedom ⓘ |
| leadActor | David Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Walter Bedeker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | stock music (various composers) ⓘ |
| narrator | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingNarrationBy | Rod Serling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalAirDate | 1959-11-06 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | black-and-white television ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Twilight Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A hypochondriac named Walter Bedeker makes a pact with the Devil granting him immortality in exchange for his soul, only to discover unforeseen consequences. ⓘ |
| precededByEpisode | Walking Distance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Buck Houghton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCode | 173-3606 ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | hypochondriac man obsessed with his health ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 25 ⓘ |
| seriesSeason | The Twilight Zone (season 1) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| writer | Rod Serling 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: Escape Clause Description of subject: "Escape Clause" is an episode of the classic television anthology series The Twilight Zone, centered on a hypochondriac who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.