The Shining
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The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shining (novel) | 13 |
| The Shining canonical | 9 |
| The Shining (1977 novel) | 6 |
| the shining | 3 |
| Overlook Hotel | 1 |
| The Shining series | 1 |
| novel The Shining by Stephen King | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T179816 — 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 Shining Context triple: [Simon & Schuster, notableWorkPublished, The Shining]
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A.
Carrie
"Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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C.
Jaws (novel)
Jaws (novel) is a 1974 thriller by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town, which became a bestseller and inspired the famous film adaptation.
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D.
Green Room
The Green Room is an elegant, historically significant parlor on the State Floor of the White House used for receptions and small gatherings.
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E.
Green Room
Green Room is a 2015 American horror-thriller film about a punk band trapped in a remote neo-Nazi club, noted for its intense violence and suspenseful, claustrophobic atmosphere.
- 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 Shining Target entity description: The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
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A.
Carrie
"Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
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B.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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C.
Jaws (novel)
Jaws (novel) is a 1974 thriller by Peter Benchley about a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town, which became a bestseller and inspired the famous film adaptation.
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D.
Green Room
The Green Room is an elegant, historically significant parlor on the State Floor of the White House used for receptions and small gatherings.
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E.
Green Room
Green Room is a 2015 American horror-thriller film about a punk band trapped in a remote neo-Nazi club, noted for its intense violence and suspenseful, claustrophobic atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
The Shining (1980 film)
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The Shining (1997 miniseries) ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
alcoholism
ⓘ
domestic violence ⓘ isolation ⓘ madness ⓘ supernatural evil ⓘ |
| containsSupernaturalElement |
ghosts
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premonitions ⓘ telepathy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| featuresConcept |
The Shining
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
the shining
|
| followsCharacterOccupation |
caretaker
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writer ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Delbert Grady
ⓘ
Dick Hallorann ⓘ Stuart Ullman ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780385121675 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Danny Torrance
ⓘ
Jack Torrance ⓘ Wendy Torrance ⓘ |
| hasMotiveForce | malevolent hotel ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | 447 ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Doctor Sleep ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Colorado
ⓘ
The Shining self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Overlook Hotel
|
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableElement |
haunted hotel
ⓘ
psychic abilities ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of alcoholism
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exploration of family breakdown ⓘ influence on horror genre ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Stephen King bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| settingTime | 20th century ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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 Shining Description of subject: The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
Referenced by (34)
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Overlook Hotel
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the shining
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The Shining series
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (1977 novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (1977 novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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the shining
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The Shining (1977 novel)
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the shining
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The Shining (1977 novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (1977 novel)
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"Here’s Johnny!" scene
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (novel)
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The Shining (1977 novel)
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novel The Shining by Stephen King