Jabe Torrance
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Jabe Torrance is a domineering, bigoted store owner and antagonist in Tennessee Williams’ play "Orpheus Descending," whose cruelty and illness drive much of the drama’s tension.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jabe Torrance canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12885588 — 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: Jabe Torrance Context triple: [Orpheus Descending, hasCharacter, Jabe Torrance]
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A.
Jack Torrance
Jack Torrance is the troubled writer and caretaker whose descent into madness drives the horror in Stephen King’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining.
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B.
Jared Sidney Torrance
Jared Sidney Torrance was an American businessman and real estate developer best known for founding and planning the city of Torrance, California.
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C.
Dean Torrence
Dean Torrence is an American singer, musician, and graphic artist best known as half of the surf rock duo Jan and Dean and for designing album covers for various artists.
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D.
Danny Torrance
Danny Torrance is the young, psychically gifted boy whose terrifying experiences at the haunted Overlook Hotel drive the plot of Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining."
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E.
Wendy Torrance
Wendy Torrance is a central character in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known as the emotionally strained wife and mother struggling to protect her son from her increasingly unstable husband in the haunted Overlook Hotel.
- 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: Jabe Torrance Target entity description: Jabe Torrance is a domineering, bigoted store owner and antagonist in Tennessee Williams’ play "Orpheus Descending," whose cruelty and illness drive much of the drama’s tension.
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A.
Jack Torrance
Jack Torrance is the troubled writer and caretaker whose descent into madness drives the horror in Stephen King’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining.
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B.
Jared Sidney Torrance
Jared Sidney Torrance was an American businessman and real estate developer best known for founding and planning the city of Torrance, California.
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C.
Dean Torrence
Dean Torrence is an American singer, musician, and graphic artist best known as half of the surf rock duo Jan and Dean and for designing album covers for various artists.
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D.
Danny Torrance
Danny Torrance is the young, psychically gifted boy whose terrifying experiences at the haunted Overlook Hotel drive the plot of Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining."
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E.
Wendy Torrance
Wendy Torrance is a central character in Stephen King’s horror story "The Shining," known as the emotionally strained wife and mother struggling to protect her son from her increasingly unstable husband in the haunted Overlook Hotel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
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fictional character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Orpheus Descending ⓘ |
| associatedWorkAuthor | Tennessee Williams ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bigoted
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cruel ⓘ domineering ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Lady Torrance
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Val Xavier ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Tennessee Williams ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Lady Torrance
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Val Xavier ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Lady Torrance ⓘ |
| healthStatus | seriously ill ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives dramatic tension through cruelty and illness ⓘ |
| occupation | store owner ⓘ |
| residence | small Southern town ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist in the play Orpheus Descending ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
Torrance mercantile store
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linked to:
Torrance dry-goods store
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| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting | 20th century ⓘ |
| workFirstPublishedIn |
Orpheus Descending (1957 Broadway version)
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linked to:
Orpheus Descending
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| workGenreContext | Southern Gothic drama ⓘ |
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: Jabe Torrance Description of subject: Jabe Torrance is a domineering, bigoted store owner and antagonist in Tennessee Williams’ play "Orpheus Descending," whose cruelty and illness drive much of the drama’s tension.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.