Danny Torrance
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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."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Torrance canonical | 17 |
| Dan Torrance | 7 |
| Daniel Anthony Torrance | 1 |
| Danny Torrance (film character) | 1 |
| Danny Torrance about the shining | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1065540 — 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: Danny Torrance Context triple: [The Shining, hasMainCharacter, Danny 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.
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.
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C.
Will Byers
Will Byers is a central character in the sci-fi horror series "Stranger Things," known for his mysterious disappearance into the Upside Down and its lasting supernatural effects on him and his friends.
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D.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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E.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
- 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: Danny Torrance Target entity description: 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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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.
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.
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C.
Will Byers
Will Byers is a central character in the sci-fi horror series "Stranger Things," known for his mysterious disappearance into the Upside Down and its lasting supernatural effects on him and his friends.
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D.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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E.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
horror fiction character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Danny Torrance
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Danny Torrance (film character)
|
| appearsIn |
Doctor Sleep
ⓘ
Doctor Sleep ⓘ
surface form:
Doctor Sleep (2019 film)
The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining
The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ The Shining (1997 miniseries) ⓘ |
| basedInWork | novel ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| familyName | Torrance ⓘ |
| father | Jack Torrance ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Shining franchise
ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining universe
|
| firstAppearance |
The Shining
ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining (1977 novel)
|
| fullName |
Danny Torrance
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Daniel Anthony Torrance
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
clairvoyance
ⓘ
precognition ⓘ psychic powers ⓘ telepathy ⓘ The Shining ⓘ
surface form:
the shining
|
| hasInnerVoice | Tony ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
empathetic
ⓘ
introverted ⓘ recovering alcoholic ⓘ traumatized ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mother | Wendy Torrance ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Danny ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Overlook Hotel haunting experiences
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Overlook Hotel winter caretaking stay ⓘ battle with the True Knot ⓘ confrontation with Jack Torrance at the Overlook Hotel ⓘ |
| occupation |
alcoholics anonymous member
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hospice orderly ⓘ hospice worker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Courtland Mead
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Danny Lloyd ⓘ Ewan McGregor ⓘ Roger Dale Floyd ⓘ |
| relationship | friend of Dick Hallorann ⓘ |
| relative | Abra Stone ⓘ |
| residence |
Boulder, Colorado
ⓘ
Frazier, New Hampshire ⓘ |
| significantPlace |
Overlook Hotel site
ⓘ
surface form:
Overlook Hotel
|
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: Danny Torrance Description of subject: 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."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Daniel Anthony Torrance
this entity surface form:
Danny Torrance (film character)
this entity surface form:
Danny Torrance about the shining
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance
this entity surface form:
Dan Torrance