1408
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"1408" is a 2007 psychological horror film based on a Stephen King short story, following a skeptical writer who experiences terrifying supernatural events in a haunted hotel room.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1408 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10973599 — 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: 1408 Context triple: [Matt Greenberg, notableWork, 1408]
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A.
Murder House
Murder House is the haunted Los Angeles mansion that serves as the central setting of the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
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B.
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band known for blending thrash and melodic death metal elements into an aggressive, modern sound.
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C.
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.
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D.
The 13th Floor
The 13th Floor is a well-known rooftop restaurant and lounge in Baltimore offering upscale dining and panoramic city views.
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E.
Hotel of Doom
The "Hotel of Doom" is the ominous nickname for North Korea’s unfinished, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, long notorious as a symbol of stalled ambition and architectural failure.
- 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: 1408 Target entity description: "1408" is a 2007 psychological horror film based on a Stephen King short story, following a skeptical writer who experiences terrifying supernatural events in a haunted hotel room.
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A.
Murder House
Murder House is the haunted Los Angeles mansion that serves as the central setting of the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story.
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B.
The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band known for blending thrash and melodic death metal elements into an aggressive, modern sound.
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C.
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.
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D.
The 13th Floor
The 13th Floor is a well-known rooftop restaurant and lounge in Baltimore offering upscale dining and panoramic city views.
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E.
Hotel of Doom
The "Hotel of Doom" is the ominous nickname for North Korea’s unfinished, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, long notorious as a symbol of stalled ambition and architectural failure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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psychological horror film ⓘ supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | 1408 (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Jasmine Jessica Anthony
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cusack NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary McCormack NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel L. Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Shalhoub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
John Cusack as Mike Enslin
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Mary McCormack as Lily Enslin NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel L. Jackson as Gerald Olin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Benoît Delhomme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Mikael Håfström NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Dimension Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editor | Peter Boyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological horror
ⓘ
supernatural horror ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
grief and loss
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haunted hotel room ⓘ skepticism vs belief ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Gerald Olin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lily Enslin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Enslin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Deborah Lurie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gabriel Yared NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableScene | Mike Enslin trapped in room 1408 experiencing hallucinations ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Arnold Messer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lorenzo di Bonaventura NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Medavoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Dimension Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mandalay Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weinstein Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-06-22 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 104 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutesDirectorCut | 112 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Larry Karaszewski
NERFINISHED
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Matt Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Dolphin Hotel
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
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: 1408 Description of subject: "1408" is a 2007 psychological horror film based on a Stephen King short story, following a skeptical writer who experiences terrifying supernatural events in a haunted hotel room.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.