Cyrus Zorba
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Cyrus Zorba is the protagonist of the 1960 horror film "13 Ghosts," a financially struggling family man who inherits a haunted house filled with malevolent spirits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cyrus Zorba canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9845691 — 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: Cyrus Zorba Context triple: [13 Ghosts, mainCharacter, Cyrus Zorba]
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A.
Alexis Zorba
Alexis Zorba is the exuberant, free-spirited Greek protagonist of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel "Zorba the Greek," celebrated for his zest for life, passion, and philosophical outlook.
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B.
Cyrus Voris
Cyrus Voris is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing films like "Bulletproof Monk" and co-creating the television series "Sleeper Cell."
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C.
Cyrus Griffin
Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
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D.
Eli Damaskinos
Eli Damaskinos is a powerful and ancient vampire lord from the Blade film series, known for his role as a key antagonist and leader within the vampire hierarchy.
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E.
John Italos
John Italos was an 11th-century Byzantine philosopher and scholar known for his attempts to integrate classical Greek philosophy, especially Neoplatonism, with Christian theology, which led to charges of heresy.
- 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: Cyrus Zorba Target entity description: Cyrus Zorba is the protagonist of the 1960 horror film "13 Ghosts," a financially struggling family man who inherits a haunted house filled with malevolent spirits.
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A.
Alexis Zorba
Alexis Zorba is the exuberant, free-spirited Greek protagonist of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel "Zorba the Greek," celebrated for his zest for life, passion, and philosophical outlook.
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B.
Cyrus Voris
Cyrus Voris is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing films like "Bulletproof Monk" and co-creating the television series "Sleeper Cell."
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C.
Cyrus Griffin
Cyrus Griffin was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the last president of the Continental Congress before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
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D.
Eli Damaskinos
Eli Damaskinos is a powerful and ancient vampire lord from the Blade film series, known for his role as a key antagonist and leader within the vampire hierarchy.
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E.
John Italos
John Italos was an 11th-century Byzantine philosopher and scholar known for his attempts to integrate classical Greek philosophy, especially Neoplatonism, with Christian theology, which led to charges of heresy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
13 Ghosts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
1960 film 13 Ghosts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
13 ghosts
ⓘ
malevolent spirits ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | American cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | William Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| facesThreatFrom | ghosts in the house ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | William Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
horror
ⓘ
supernatural ⓘ |
| filmProductionCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| financialStatus | financially struggling ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | horror film ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Buck Zorba
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Medea Zorba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Cyrus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Zorba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Plato Zorba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeBeforeInheritance | rented apartment ⓘ |
| inherits | haunted house ⓘ |
| inheritsFrom | Uncle Plato Zorba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| mediumAppearanceType | live-action film ⓘ |
| mediumOfWork | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist of 13 Ghosts ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
haunting
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inheritance ⓘ |
| occupation | paleontologist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Donald Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySetting | haunted mansion ⓘ |
| residesWith |
his children
ⓘ
his housekeeper ⓘ |
| workTitleCharacter | 13 Ghosts 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: Cyrus Zorba Description of subject: Cyrus Zorba is the protagonist of the 1960 horror film "13 Ghosts," a financially struggling family man who inherits a haunted house filled with malevolent spirits.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.