The Devil Commands
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The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film in which a scientist’s experiments with communicating with the dead lead to terrifying consequences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Devil Commands canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10090807 — 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 Devil Commands Context triple: [Tala Birell, notableWork, The Devil Commands]
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A.
A Devil Is Waiting
A Devil Is Waiting is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring international intrigue, political assassination plots, and his recurring character Sean Dillon.
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B.
The Devil’s Carnival
The Devil’s Carnival is a 2012 horror-musical anthology film set in a twisted carnival where damned souls relive moral fables through song and grotesque spectacle.
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C.
The Devil’s Rain
The Devil’s Rain is a 2011 studio album by American horror punk band Misfits, known for its dark, cinematic themes and modern take on the band’s classic sound.
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D.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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E.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
- 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 Devil Commands Target entity description: The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film in which a scientist’s experiments with communicating with the dead lead to terrifying consequences.
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A.
A Devil Is Waiting
A Devil Is Waiting is a thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring international intrigue, political assassination plots, and his recurring character Sean Dillon.
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B.
The Devil’s Carnival
The Devil’s Carnival is a 2012 horror-musical anthology film set in a twisted carnival where damned souls relive moral fables through song and grotesque spectacle.
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C.
The Devil’s Rain
The Devil’s Rain is a 2011 studio album by American horror punk band Misfits, known for its dark, cinematic themes and modern take on the band’s classic sound.
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D.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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E.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | William Sloane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Edge of Running Water NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Allen G. Siegler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Edward Dmytryk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charles Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1940s American horror cinema ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | Columbia Pictures studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
laboratory
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
communication with the dead
ⓘ
grief ⓘ mad science ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dr. Julian Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Morris Stoloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Boris Karloff filmography ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A scientist’s experiments to communicate with the dead lead to terrifying consequences. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Wallace MacDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1941-02-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 65 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Milton Gunzburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Hardy Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Amanda Duff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anne Revere NERFINISHED ⓘ Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ Cy Schindell NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorothy Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth MacDonald 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 Devil Commands Description of subject: The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film in which a scientist’s experiments with communicating with the dead lead to terrifying consequences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.