The Lawnmower Man
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"The Lawnmower Man" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a bizarre, supernatural lawn care service that reveals a gruesome and otherworldly secret.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lawnmower Man canonical | 8 |
| The Lawnmower Man (1992 film) | 2 |
| the lawnmower man | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714733 — 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: The Lawnmower Man Context triple: [Night Shift, hasShortStory, The Lawnmower Man]
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A.
Man Equals Man
Man Equals Man is a satirical play by Bertolt Brecht that explores themes of identity, dehumanization, and the malleability of the individual within militaristic and capitalist systems.
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B.
The Brother from Another Planet
The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 independent science-fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by John Sayles about a mute, black alien who crash-lands in Harlem and navigates life as an undocumented outsider.
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C.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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D.
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain is a 1953 science fiction horror film about a disembodied brain that telepathically controls a scientist, adapted from Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.
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E.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
- 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: The Lawnmower Man Target entity description: "The Lawnmower Man" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a bizarre, supernatural lawn care service that reveals a gruesome and otherworldly secret.
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A.
Man Equals Man
Man Equals Man is a satirical play by Bertolt Brecht that explores themes of identity, dehumanization, and the malleability of the individual within militaristic and capitalist systems.
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B.
The Brother from Another Planet
The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 independent science-fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by John Sayles about a mute, black alien who crash-lands in Harlem and navigates life as an undocumented outsider.
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C.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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D.
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain is a 1953 science fiction horror film about a disembodied brain that telepathically controls a scientist, adapted from Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.
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E.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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horror fiction ⓘ men's magazine ⓘ short story ⓘ short story collection ⓘ work of Stephen King ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Lawnmower Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Lawnmower Man (1992 film)
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| antagonist |
The Lawnmower Man
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
the lawnmower man
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| author |
Stephen King
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Stephen King ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| containsElement |
grotesque violence
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occult ritual ⓘ personification of lawn care service ⓘ |
| containsWork | The Lawnmower Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Brett Leonard ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| firstPublished | The Lawnmower Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Cavalier magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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science fiction horror film ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| hasLegalDispute | Stephen King vs. New Line Cinema over film credit ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | The Lawnmower Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | short story ⓘ |
| looselyBasedOn | The Lawnmower Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Harold Parkette ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCompany | New Line Cinema ⓘ |
| publishedInCollection | Night Shift ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Doubleday ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| setting | suburban home ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| stars |
Jeff Fahey
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Pierce Brosnan ⓘ |
| theme |
loss of control
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ordinary life disrupted by the supernatural ⓘ pagan ritual ⓘ supernatural horror ⓘ |
| workType | short horror story ⓘ |
| wrote | The Lawnmower Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: The Lawnmower Man Description of subject: "The Lawnmower Man" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a bizarre, supernatural lawn care service that reveals a gruesome and otherworldly secret.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Lawnmower Man (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
the lawnmower man
this entity surface form:
The Lawnmower Man (1992 film)
subject surface form:
The Lawnmower Man (1992 film)
subject surface form:
The Lawnmower Man (1992 film)
subject surface form:
Stephen King
subject surface form:
Night Shift
subject surface form:
Cavalier magazine