Hilary Cummins
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Hilary Cummins is the obsessive, piano-playing scholar whose encounter with a severed, seemingly autonomous hand drives the supernatural horror in the film "The Beast with Five Fingers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hilary Cummins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1928572 — 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: Hilary Cummins Context triple: [The Beast with Five Fingers, mainCharacter, Hilary Cummins]
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A.
Shannon McGahn
Shannon McGahn is an American attorney and government affairs professional known for her senior roles in Republican politics and on Capitol Hill, including serving as the first female chief lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors.
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B.
Megan Holley
Megan Holley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the indie dramedy film "Sunshine Cleaning."
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C.
Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams is known as the daughter of acclaimed American composer and conductor John Williams.
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D.
Kate Adams
Kate Adams is a name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as law, business, and the arts.
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E.
Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs is an American former professional boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion known for his powerful punching and outspoken personality.
- 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: Hilary Cummins Target entity description: Hilary Cummins is the obsessive, piano-playing scholar whose encounter with a severed, seemingly autonomous hand drives the supernatural horror in the film "The Beast with Five Fingers."
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A.
Shannon McGahn
Shannon McGahn is an American attorney and government affairs professional known for her senior roles in Republican politics and on Capitol Hill, including serving as the first female chief lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors.
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B.
Megan Holley
Megan Holley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the indie dramedy film "Sunshine Cleaning."
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C.
Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams is known as the daughter of acclaimed American composer and conductor John Williams.
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D.
Kate Adams
Kate Adams is a name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as law, business, and the arts.
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E.
Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs is an American former professional boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion known for his powerful punching and outspoken personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Beast with Five Fingers ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
horror
ⓘ
supernatural thriller ⓘ |
| associatedWith | severed hand ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
body horror
ⓘ
madness ⓘ the supernatural ⓘ |
| centralConflict | terrorization by a seemingly autonomous severed hand ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
high-strung
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intellectual ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| drivesPlotIn | The Beast with Five Fingers ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | supernatural horror film ⓘ |
| hasFearOf | disembodied hand ⓘ |
| keyElementOf | mystery in The Beast with Five Fingers ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | obsessive study of music and the occult ⓘ |
| occupation | scholar ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | piano ⓘ |
| portrayedInMedium | film ⓘ |
| primaryActivity |
playing piano
ⓘ
scholarly research ⓘ |
| storyFunction | focus of the film’s supernatural events ⓘ |
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: Hilary Cummins Description of subject: Hilary Cummins is the obsessive, piano-playing scholar whose encounter with a severed, seemingly autonomous hand drives the supernatural horror in the film "The Beast with Five Fingers."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.