The Invisible Ray
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The Invisible Ray is a 1936 science fiction horror film 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 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10089492 — 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 Invisible Ray Context triple: [Frances Drake, notableWork, The Invisible Ray]
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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.
The Unknown
The Unknown is a 1927 silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, renowned for Lon Chaney’s intense performance as a criminal posing as an armless circus performer.
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D.
The Poison Belt
The Poison Belt is a 1913 science fiction novella by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Professor Challenger and his companions confront a deadly atmospheric phenomenon threatening all life on Earth.
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E.
The Ray of the Microcosm
The Ray of the Microcosm is a philosophical-epic poem by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš that explores metaphysical, religious, and existential themes within the Serbian and Montenegrin literary tradition.
- 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 Target entity description: The Invisible Ray is a 1936 science fiction horror film 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.
The Unknown
The Unknown is a 1927 silent horror film directed by Tod Browning, renowned for Lon Chaney’s intense performance as a criminal posing as an armless circus performer.
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D.
The Poison Belt
The Poison Belt is a 1913 science fiction novella by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Professor Challenger and his companions confront a deadly atmospheric phenomenon threatening all life on Earth.
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E.
The Ray of the Microcosm
The Ray of the Microcosm is a philosophical-epic poem by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš that explores metaphysical, religious, and existential themes within the Serbian and Montenegrin literary tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| 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
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| director | Lambert Hillyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Otto Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
cosmic radiation
ⓘ
mad scientist ⓘ radioactivity ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dr. Felix Benet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Janos Rukh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Universal horror films ⓘ |
| portrays | scientist who gains deadly powers from cosmic radiation ⓘ |
| producer | Carl Laemmle Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | January 20, 1936 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Howard J. Green
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Colton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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
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 Invisible Ray Description of subject: The Invisible Ray is a 1936 science fiction horror film 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.