Family Video (Hawkins)
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Family Video (Hawkins) is a local video rental store in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, featured prominently in the TV series "Stranger Things."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Family Video | 1 |
| Family Video (Hawkins) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5019012 — 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: Family Video (Hawkins) Context triple: [Hawkins, Indiana, hasBusiness, Family Video (Hawkins)]
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A.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 family science-fiction comedy film about an inventor who accidentally shrinks his children and their neighbors, forcing them to survive perilous adventures in their own backyard.
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B.
My Family
"My Family" is a British television sitcom that follows the comedic misadventures of the Harper family, a middle-class household navigating everyday chaos and family dynamics.
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C.
Harry and the Hendersons
Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
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D.
Familia
"Familia" is a musical track featured on Yo-Yo Ma and Friends' holiday-themed album "Songs of Joy & Peace."
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E.
House in the Woods
"House in the Woods" is a song by the American indie rock band Wildflowers.
- 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: Family Video (Hawkins) Target entity description: Family Video (Hawkins) is a local video rental store in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, featured prominently in the TV series "Stranger Things."
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A.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 family science-fiction comedy film about an inventor who accidentally shrinks his children and their neighbors, forcing them to survive perilous adventures in their own backyard.
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B.
My Family
"My Family" is a British television sitcom that follows the comedic misadventures of the Harper family, a middle-class household navigating everyday chaos and family dynamics.
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C.
Harry and the Hendersons
Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
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D.
Familia
"Familia" is a musical track featured on Yo-Yo Ma and Friends' holiday-themed album "Songs of Joy & Peace."
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E.
House in the Woods
"House in the Woods" is a song by the American indie rock band Wildflowers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional video rental store ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stranger Things ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisode |
Stranger Things S3E8 "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt"
ⓘ
Stranger Things S4E1 "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" ⓘ
linked to:
Stranger Things
multiple Stranger Things season 4 episodes ⓘ |
| businessType | video rental store ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employerOf |
Keith (Family Video manager)
ⓘ
Robin Buckley ⓘ Steve Harrington ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
science fiction horror
ⓘ
supernatural drama ⓘ |
| hasEmployeeRole |
store manager
ⓘ
video store clerk ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
back room or office area
ⓘ
counter with cash register ⓘ rows of VHS tapes ⓘ |
| hasFictionalAddressDetail | strip mall in Hawkins ⓘ |
| hasFictionalSignText | Family Video ⓘ |
| hasOnScreenFunction |
place where characters search customer records
ⓘ
place where characters watch and discuss movies ⓘ |
| introducedInSeason |
Stranger Things season 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Stranger Things
Stranger Things season 4 ⓘ
linked to:
Stranger Things
|
| languageOfSignage | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Hawkins, Indiana ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
information-gathering location for main characters
ⓘ
workplace setting for Robin Buckley ⓘ workplace setting for Steve Harrington ⓘ |
| ownerBrandInFiction | Family Video ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Stranger Things universe ⓘ |
| productOrService |
VHS rentals
ⓘ
movie rentals ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Hawkins High School
ⓘ
Scoops Ahoy ⓘ Starcourt Mall ⓘ |
| setType |
exterior storefront
ⓘ
interior set ⓘ |
| successorTo | Scoops Ahoy (as Steve Harrington workplace) ⓘ |
| targetCustomersInFiction | residents of Hawkins ⓘ |
| timeSetting |
1980s
ⓘ
mid-1980s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
character interactions
ⓘ
comic relief scenes ⓘ plot exposition ⓘ |
| visualStyle | 1980s video store aesthetic ⓘ |
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: Family Video (Hawkins) Description of subject: Family Video (Hawkins) is a local video rental store in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, featured prominently in the TV series "Stranger Things."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Family Video (Hawkins)