Steve Freeling
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Steve Freeling is the suburban father and central protagonist in the horror film "Poltergeist," whose family is terrorized by malevolent supernatural forces in their home.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Freeling canonical | 1 |
| Steven Freeling | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342298 — 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: Steve Freeling Context triple: [Poltergeist, mainCharacter, Steve Freeling]
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A.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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B.
Donald Frey
Donald Frey was an American automotive engineer and executive best known as the Ford Motor Company manager who led the development of the original Ford Mustang.
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C.
Jeff Fager
Jeff Fager is an American television producer best known for leading and shaping the long-running CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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D.
Bob Suter
Bob Suter was an American defenseman best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and later a prominent youth hockey coach and scout.
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E.
Gary Cederstrom
Gary Cederstrom is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games and served as crew chief in multiple World Series.
- 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: Steve Freeling Target entity description: Steve Freeling is the suburban father and central protagonist in the horror film "Poltergeist," whose family is terrorized by malevolent supernatural forces in their home.
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A.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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B.
Donald Frey
Donald Frey was an American automotive engineer and executive best known as the Ford Motor Company manager who led the development of the original Ford Mustang.
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C.
Jeff Fager
Jeff Fager is an American television producer best known for leading and shaping the long-running CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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D.
Bob Suter
Bob Suter was an American defenseman best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and later a prominent youth hockey coach and scout.
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E.
Gary Cederstrom
Gary Cederstrom is a longtime Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games and served as crew chief in multiple World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Poltergeist
ⓘ
Poltergeist ⓘ
surface form:
Poltergeist (1982 film)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side ⓘ Poltergeist III ⓘ |
| appearsInFranchise |
Poltergeist
ⓘ
surface form:
Poltergeist franchise
|
| associatedWith |
Freeling family
ⓘ
haunted house ⓘ malevolent spirits ⓘ supernatural phenomena ⓘ |
| characterType | suburban father ⓘ |
| child |
Carol Anne Freeling
ⓘ
Dana Freeling ⓘ Robbie Freeling ⓘ |
| conflict | haunting of the Freeling home ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Mark Victor
ⓘ
Michael Grais ⓘ Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| employer | Cuesta Verde Development Company ⓘ |
| familyName | Freeling ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Steve ⓘ |
| houseBuiltBy | Cuesta Verde Development Company ⓘ |
| houseLocation | built on a former cemetery (in-story) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| notableEvent | family home implodes due to supernatural forces ⓘ |
| occupation | real estate agent ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement |
attempts to rescue his daughter Carol Anne from supernatural forces
ⓘ
seeks help from parapsychologists and a spiritual medium ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Craig T. Nelson
ⓘ
Craig T. Nelson in Poltergeist II: The Other Side ⓘ Craig T. Nelson in Poltergeist III ⓘ |
| protects |
Carol Anne Freeling
ⓘ
Dana Freeling ⓘ Diane Freeling ⓘ Robbie Freeling ⓘ |
| residence | Cuesta Verde, California (fictional suburb) ⓘ |
| spouse | Diane Freeling ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
family in peril
ⓘ
suburban anxiety ⓘ |
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: Steve Freeling Description of subject: Steve Freeling is the suburban father and central protagonist in the horror film "Poltergeist," whose family is terrorized by malevolent supernatural forces in their home.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Steven Freeling