Thumbprint
E194794
"Thumbprint" is a horror novella by Joe Hill that follows a traumatized Iraq War veteran who becomes the target of a menacing and mysterious stalker.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thumbprint canonical | 2 |
| Thumbprint (comic series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725423 — 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: Thumbprint Context triple: [Joe Hill, notableWork, Thumbprint]
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A.
Selloi
The Selloi were the ancient priests associated with the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in Epirus, known from Homeric tradition.
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B.
Acrobat
"Acrobat" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and atmospheric guitar work.
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C.
Keyes
Keyes is a small unincorporated community located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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D.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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E.
The Blueprint
The Blueprint is a critically acclaimed 2001 studio album by Jay-Z, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential hip-hop records of all time.
- 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: Thumbprint Target entity description: "Thumbprint" is a horror novella by Joe Hill that follows a traumatized Iraq War veteran who becomes the target of a menacing and mysterious stalker.
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A.
Selloi
The Selloi were the ancient priests associated with the oracle of Zeus at Dodona in Epirus, known from Homeric tradition.
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B.
Acrobat
"Acrobat" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and atmospheric guitar work.
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C.
Keyes
Keyes is a small unincorporated community located in Stanislaus County in California’s Central Valley.
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D.
The Dial
The Dial was a 19th-century American literary and philosophical magazine that served as the chief periodical voice of the Transcendentalist movement, publishing works by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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E.
The Blueprint
The Blueprint is a critically acclaimed 2001 studio album by Jay-Z, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential hip-hop records of all time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror fiction work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptation |
Thumbprint (comic series)
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linked to:
Thumbprint
|
| adaptedAs | comic book miniseries ⓘ |
| author | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| centralConflict | protagonist is targeted by a mysterious stalker ⓘ |
| comicAdaptationFormat | limited series ⓘ |
| comicAdaptationIssueCount | 3 ⓘ |
| containsElement |
anonymous threatening messages
ⓘ
mysterious thumbprint marks ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Joe Hill ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterWithBackground | U.S. military prison guard ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | short fiction in anthology ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mallory Grennan ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | Iraq War veteran ⓘ |
| publisherOfComicAdaptation | IDW Publishing ⓘ |
| setting | post-Iraq War United States ⓘ |
| theme |
guilt
ⓘ
moral ambiguity ⓘ post-traumatic stress disorder ⓘ stalking ⓘ war trauma ⓘ |
| workOf |
Joe Hill bibliography
ⓘ
linked to:
Joe Hill
|
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: Thumbprint Description of subject: "Thumbprint" is a horror novella by Joe Hill that follows a traumatized Iraq War veteran who becomes the target of a menacing and mysterious stalker.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thumbprint