Mark Petrie
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Mark Petrie is a courageous and resourceful young boy in Stephen King’s horror universe who becomes one of the key fighters against the vampires in ’Salem’s Lot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Petrie canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725263 — 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: Mark Petrie Context triple: [Salem's Lot, mainCharacter, Mark Petrie]
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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D.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- 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: Mark Petrie Target entity description: Mark Petrie is a courageous and resourceful young boy in Stephen King’s horror universe who becomes one of the key fighters against the vampires in ’Salem’s Lot.
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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D.
Jeffrey Fuller
Jeffrey Fuller is known primarily as the son of prominent American lawyer, feminist, and civil liberties advocate Crystal Eastman.
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Ben Mears
ⓘ
Father Donald Callahan ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Salem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem’s Lot (novel)
Salem's Lot ⓘ
surface form:
’Salem’s Lot
|
| basedIn | Maine (fictional town in Maine) ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Stephen King multiverse
ⓘ
surface form:
Stephen King’s horror universe
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Kurt Barlow
ⓘ
vampires ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Salem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
’Salem’s Lot (1975 novel)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror fiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Petrie ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mark ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Stephen King multiverse ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | key fighter against vampires ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | fighting vampires in ’Salem’s Lot ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| residence |
Jerusalem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
Jerusalem’s Lot
|
| role |
protagonist
ⓘ
vampire hunter ⓘ |
| trait |
courageous
ⓘ
resourceful ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Jerusalem's Lot
ⓘ
surface form:
Jerusalem’s Lot
|
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: Mark Petrie Description of subject: Mark Petrie is a courageous and resourceful young boy in Stephen King’s horror universe who becomes one of the key fighters against the vampires in ’Salem’s Lot.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.