Starcourt Mall
E490130
Starcourt Mall is a fictional 1980s-style shopping mall that serves as a central setting and sinister front for secret experiments in the third season of the TV series "Stranger Things."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starcourt Mall canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5019011 — 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: Starcourt Mall Context triple: [Hawkins, Indiana, hasBusiness, Starcourt Mall]
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A.
Fairview Mall
Fairview Mall is a large shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, featuring a wide range of retail stores, dining options, and services.
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B.
Birchwood Mall
Birchwood Mall is a regional shopping center located in Fort Gratiot Township, Michigan, serving as a major retail hub for the Port Huron area.
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C.
Woodfield Mall
Woodfield Mall is a major super-regional shopping center in Schaumburg, Illinois, and one of the largest malls in the United States, featuring hundreds of retail stores, dining options, and entertainment venues.
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D.
Eastwood Mall
Eastwood Mall is a major shopping and lifestyle center located within Eastwood City in Quezon City, Philippines, featuring retail stores, dining, and entertainment venues.
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E.
Southridge Mall
Southridge Mall is a major regional shopping center located in Greendale, Wisconsin, featuring a wide variety of retail stores, dining options, and services.
- 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: Starcourt Mall Target entity description: Starcourt Mall is a fictional 1980s-style shopping mall that serves as a central setting and sinister front for secret experiments in the third season of the TV series "Stranger Things."
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A.
Fairview Mall
Fairview Mall is a large shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, featuring a wide range of retail stores, dining options, and services.
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B.
Birchwood Mall
Birchwood Mall is a regional shopping center located in Fort Gratiot Township, Michigan, serving as a major retail hub for the Port Huron area.
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C.
Woodfield Mall
Woodfield Mall is a major super-regional shopping center in Schaumburg, Illinois, and one of the largest malls in the United States, featuring hundreds of retail stores, dining options, and entertainment venues.
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D.
Eastwood Mall
Eastwood Mall is a major shopping and lifestyle center located within Eastwood City in Quezon City, Philippines, featuring retail stores, dining, and entertainment venues.
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E.
Southridge Mall
Southridge Mall is a major regional shopping center located in Greendale, Wisconsin, featuring a wide variety of retail stores, dining options, and services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional shopping mall ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Stranger Things ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
Stranger Things season 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Stranger Things Season 3
|
| associatedWith |
Mind Flayer
ⓘ
Upside Down ⓘ |
| contains |
elevator to Russian base
ⓘ
laser gate-opening machine ⓘ secret underground base ⓘ |
| createdBy |
The Duffer Brothers
ⓘ
linked to:
Duffer Brothers
|
| destroyedIn | Stranger Things season 3 finale ⓘ |
| employsCharacter |
Erica Sinclair
ⓘ
Robin Buckley ⓘ Steve Harrington ⓘ |
| fictionalLocationOf | Hawkins, Indiana ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
“Suzie, Do You Copy?”
ⓘ
linked to:
Suzie, Do You Copy?
|
| genre |
horror setting
ⓘ
science fiction setting ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
anchor stores
ⓘ
arcade ⓘ food court ⓘ movie theater ⓘ parking lot ⓘ |
| hasTenant |
Burger restaurant
ⓘ
Jazzercise studio ⓘ Orange Julius ⓘ Sam Goody ⓘ Scoops Ahoy ⓘ The Gap ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Cold War paranoia
ⓘ
consumerism ⓘ corruption beneath suburbia ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | 1980s American suburban malls ⓘ |
| lastMajorAppearance |
“The Battle of Starcourt”
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Starcourt
|
| narrativeRole |
antagonistic location
ⓘ
central setting ⓘ |
| ownedByInStory | Russian operatives ⓘ |
| partOf | Stranger Things universe ⓘ |
| sceneOf |
Billy Hargrove’s sacrifice
ⓘ
climactic showdown in season 3 finale ⓘ final battle with Mind Flayer ⓘ fireworks attack on Mind Flayer ⓘ |
| threatens |
Hawkins community
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawkins
|
| timeSetting | 1980s ⓘ |
| usedAsCoverFor |
Soviet laboratory
ⓘ
gate-opening experiments ⓘ secret experiments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Starcourt Mall Description of subject: Starcourt Mall is a fictional 1980s-style shopping mall that serves as a central setting and sinister front for secret experiments in the third season of the TV series "Stranger Things."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.