The Colour Out of Space
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The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Colour Out of Space canonical | 17 |
| Color Out of Space | 4 |
| Color Out of Space (short story) | 1 |
| The Colour Out of Space (1927 short story) | 1 |
| The Colour Out of Space (Amazing Stories, 1927) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715082 — 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 Colour Out of Space Context triple: [H. P. Lovecraft, notableWork, The Colour Out of Space]
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A.
The Dunwich Horror
The Dunwich Horror is a classic 1929 cosmic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about occult rituals, monstrous entities, and the encroachment of otherworldly forces on a rural New England town.
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B.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is a 1936 horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft that follows a doomed Antarctic expedition uncovering ancient, cosmic terrors.
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C.
The Music of Erich Zann
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short horror story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mute viol player whose eerie music holds back terrifying otherworldly forces.
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D.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft about a decaying seaside town harboring a monstrous secret tied to an ancient oceanic cult and human–fish hybrids.
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E.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu is a seminal 1928 horror short story that introduced the cosmic entity Cthulhu and became a cornerstone of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
- 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 Colour Out of Space Target entity description: The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
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A.
The Dunwich Horror
The Dunwich Horror is a classic 1929 cosmic horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about occult rituals, monstrous entities, and the encroachment of otherworldly forces on a rural New England town.
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B.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness is a 1936 horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft that follows a doomed Antarctic expedition uncovering ancient, cosmic terrors.
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C.
The Music of Erich Zann
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short horror story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mute viol player whose eerie music holds back terrifying otherworldly forces.
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D.
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft about a decaying seaside town harboring a monstrous secret tied to an ancient oceanic cult and human–fish hybrids.
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E.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu is a seminal 1928 horror short story that introduced the cosmic entity Cthulhu and became a cornerstone of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror short story
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science fiction short story ⓘ short story ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Color Out of Space (2019 film)
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Die, Monster, Die! ⓘ The Curse ⓘ |
| author | H. P. Lovecraft ⓘ |
| causeOfCorruptionInPlot | extraterrestrial radiation or influence ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
cosmic horror
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environmental corruption ⓘ human insignificance ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| firstPublishedDate | September 1927 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Amazing Stories ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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science fiction ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Ammi Pierce
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Nahum Gardner ⓘ unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| hasColorMotif | indescribable color ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
corruption of nature
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degeneration of a family ⓘ unknowable alien life ⓘ |
| influenced |
cosmic horror genre
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later science fiction-horror works ⓘ |
| length | novelette ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Lovecraft Country ⓘ |
| magazineEditorAtPublication | Hugo Gernsback ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | extraterrestrial entity ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableCriticalReception | considered one of Lovecraft's best stories ⓘ |
| notableElement |
blasted heath
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contaminated well ⓘ mysterious meteorite ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Cthulhu Mythos-related fiction ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | surveyor ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| publisher | Experimenter Publishing Company ⓘ |
| setIn |
Arkham
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rural New England ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting |
1880s
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1920s ⓘ |
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 Colour Out of Space Description of subject: The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Colour Out of Space
linked to: The Colour Out of Space
linked to: The Colour Out of Space
linked to: The Colour Out of Space
subject linked to:
Richard Stanley
linked to: The Colour Out of Space
linked to: The Colour Out of Space
Color Out of Space (original motion picture soundtrack)
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associatedWork
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Color Out of Space (short story)
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linked to: The Colour Out of Space