Shocker
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Shocker is a 1989 American horror film that blends slasher and supernatural elements, following a serial killer who gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shocker canonical | 1 |
| Shocker (1989 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10917124 — 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: Shocker Context triple: [Wes Craven, directed, Shocker]
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A.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
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B.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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C.
Black Scorpion
Black Scorpion is a 1995 campy superhero action film featuring Joan Severance as a vigilante crime-fighter who becomes a leather-clad, high-tech avenger.
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D.
Shockers
Shockers is the athletic nickname for Wichita State University's sports teams, known especially for their successful men's basketball program.
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E.
Shankman
Shankman is a surname most notably associated with American film director and choreographer Adam Shankman.
- 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: Shocker Target entity description: Shocker is a 1989 American horror film that blends slasher and supernatural elements, following a serial killer who gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution.
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A.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
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B.
Zabivaka
Zabivaka is the wolf character that served as the official mascot for major international football tournaments hosted by Russia, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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C.
Black Scorpion
Black Scorpion is a 1995 campy superhero action film featuring Joan Severance as a vigilante crime-fighter who becomes a leather-clad, high-tech avenger.
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D.
Shockers
Shockers is the athletic nickname for Wichita State University's sports teams, known especially for their successful men's basketball program.
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E.
Shankman
Shankman is a surname most notably associated with American film director and choreographer Adam Shankman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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horror film ⓘ slasher film ⓘ supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay by Wes Craven ⓘ |
| character |
Horace Pinker
NERFINISHED
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Jonathan Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jacques Haitkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1980s ⓘ |
| director | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Mason Daring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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slasher ⓘ supernatural ⓘ |
| hasTagline | No more Mr. Nice Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
capital punishment
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possession ⓘ television and media ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | Horace Pinker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | William Goldstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | late-1980s American horror cinema ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A serial killer gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution and continues his killing spree. ⓘ |
| producer |
Bob Engelman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shep Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Alive Films
NERFINISHED
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Carolco Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1989-10-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 109 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | fictional city of Ruggsville ⓘ |
| starring |
Cami Cooper
NERFINISHED
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Michael Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitch Pileggi NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Scarber NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Raimi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Wes Craven 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: Shocker Description of subject: Shocker is a 1989 American horror film that blends slasher and supernatural elements, following a serial killer who gains the ability to travel through electricity after his execution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shocker (1989 film)