Hawkins, Indiana
E112803
Hawkins, Indiana is the fictional small Midwestern town where the supernatural events and government conspiracies of the Netflix series "Stranger Things" unfold.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hawkins, Indiana canonical | 78 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T956709 — 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: Hawkins, Indiana Context triple: [Stranger Things, settingPlace, Hawkins, Indiana]
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A.
Roanoke, Indiana
Roanoke, Indiana is a small town in Huntington County known for its proximity to Fort Wayne and its mix of rural charm and light industrial and commercial development.
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B.
Bedford, Indiana
Bedford, Indiana is a small city in southern Indiana renowned as a major center of the Indiana limestone industry.
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C.
Topeka, Indiana
Topeka, Indiana is a small Midwestern town in the United States, best known for lending its name to the later and larger city of Topeka, Kansas.
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D.
Culver, Indiana
Culver, Indiana is a small town in northern Indiana best known as the home of the prestigious Culver Military Academy on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee.
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E.
Gary, Indiana
Gary, Indiana is an industrial city in the Chicago metropolitan area historically known for its steel mills and as the birthplace of Michael Jackson and the Jackson family.
- 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: Hawkins, Indiana Target entity description: Hawkins, Indiana is the fictional small Midwestern town where the supernatural events and government conspiracies of the Netflix series "Stranger Things" unfold.
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A.
Roanoke, Indiana
Roanoke, Indiana is a small town in Huntington County known for its proximity to Fort Wayne and its mix of rural charm and light industrial and commercial development.
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B.
Bedford, Indiana
Bedford, Indiana is a small city in southern Indiana renowned as a major center of the Indiana limestone industry.
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C.
Topeka, Indiana
Topeka, Indiana is a small Midwestern town in the United States, best known for lending its name to the later and larger city of Topeka, Kansas.
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D.
Culver, Indiana
Culver, Indiana is a small town in northern Indiana best known as the home of the prestigious Culver Military Academy on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee.
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E.
Gary, Indiana
Gary, Indiana is an industrial city in the Chicago metropolitan area historically known for its steel mills and as the birthplace of Michael Jackson and the Jackson family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Hawkins, Indiana Description of subject: Hawkins, Indiana is the fictional small Midwestern town where the supernatural events and government conspiracies of the Netflix series "Stranger Things" unfold.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vecna
subject linked to:
James Hopper
subject linked to:
Hawkins National Laboratory (as an adversary)
subject linked to:
Demodogs