Hostel
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"Hostel" is a 2005 horror film directed by Eli Roth, known for its graphic violence and role in popularizing the "torture porn" subgenre.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hostel canonical | 8 |
| Hostel: Part II | 3 |
| Hostel (2005) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10944231 — 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: Hostel Context triple: [Jay Hernandez, notableWork, Hostel]
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A.
The Host
The Host is a 2013 science fiction film, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, in which Diane Kruger plays a key role in a future where alien “souls” have taken over human bodies.
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B.
The Host
The Host is a character in the action-strategy game Minecraft Legends who guides and assists the player as they defend the Overworld from invading Piglins.
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C.
The Host
The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film by director Bong Joon-ho that blends creature-feature horror with dark comedy and social commentary.
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D.
Hostage
"Hostage" is a 2005 crime thriller film in which Jonathan Tucker appears alongside Bruce Willis in a tense story about a hostage negotiator drawn into a violent standoff.
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E.
The Hotel
The Hotel is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she worked as a chambermaid to secretly observe and document hotel guests, blending photography, text, and voyeuristic narrative.
- 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: Hostel Target entity description: "Hostel" is a 2005 horror film directed by Eli Roth, known for its graphic violence and role in popularizing the "torture porn" subgenre.
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A.
The Host
The Host is a 2013 science fiction film, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, in which Diane Kruger plays a key role in a future where alien “souls” have taken over human bodies.
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B.
The Host
The Host is a character in the action-strategy game Minecraft Legends who guides and assists the player as they defend the Overworld from invading Piglins.
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C.
The Host
The Host is a 2006 South Korean monster film by director Bong Joon-ho that blends creature-feature horror with dark comedy and social commentary.
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D.
Hostage
"Hostage" is a 2005 crime thriller film in which Jonathan Tucker appears alongside Bruce Willis in a tense story about a hostage negotiator drawn into a violent standoff.
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E.
The Hotel
The Hotel is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she worked as a chambermaid to secretly observe and document hotel guests, blending photography, text, and voyeuristic narrative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
feature film ⓘ film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Quentin Tarantino Presents branding ⓘ |
| boxOfficeStatus | commercial success ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Scott Kevan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contentCharacteristic |
extreme gore
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graphic torture scenes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | mixed reviews ⓘ |
| director | Eli Roth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lions Gate Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Folsey Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Quentin Tarantino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Czech Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Hostel: Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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splatter ⓘ torture porn ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class disparity
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human trafficking ⓘ sadism ⓘ tourism gone wrong ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nathan Barr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
graphic violence
ⓘ
popularizing the torture porn subgenre ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Hostel film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Three backpackers are lured to a Slovak hostel where they are sold to wealthy clients who torture and kill them. ⓘ |
| producer |
Chris Briggs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eli Roth NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Fleiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 2000s films ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| setting | Slovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Derek Richardson
NERFINISHED
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Eythor Gudjonsson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay Hernandez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult viewers ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseRegion |
North America
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Eli Roth 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: Hostel Description of subject: "Hostel" is a 2005 horror film directed by Eli Roth, known for its graphic violence and role in popularizing the "torture porn" subgenre.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hostel: Part II
this entity surface form:
Hostel (2005)
this entity surface form:
Hostel: Part II
this entity surface form:
Hostel: Part II