The Stanley Hotel
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The Stanley Hotel is a historic, allegedly haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, best known as the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel "The Shining" and its related screen adaptations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stanley Hotel | 2 |
| The Stanley Hotel canonical | 2 |
| Stanley Hotel (via Overlook Hotel) | 1 |
| Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5342250 — 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 Stanley Hotel Context triple: [The Shining (1997 miniseries), filmingLocation, The Stanley Hotel]
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A.
The Overlook
The Overlook is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigating a murder linked to national security threats.
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B.
The Hotel
The Hotel is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she worked as a chambermaid to secretly observe and document hotel guests, blending photography, text, and voyeuristic narrative.
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C.
Hill House
Hill House is a renowned early 20th-century residential masterpiece in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and celebrated for its innovative Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau features.
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D.
Hill House
Hill House is a sinister, isolated mansion in Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," renowned as one of fiction’s most iconic haunted houses.
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E.
Waldo Hotel
The Waldo Hotel is a historic landmark hotel building in downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia, known for its early 20th-century architecture and past prominence as a social and commercial hub.
- 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 Stanley Hotel Target entity description: The Stanley Hotel is a historic, allegedly haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, best known as the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel "The Shining" and its related screen adaptations.
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A.
The Overlook
The Overlook is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigating a murder linked to national security threats.
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B.
The Hotel
The Hotel is a conceptual art project by French artist Sophie Calle in which she worked as a chambermaid to secretly observe and document hotel guests, blending photography, text, and voyeuristic narrative.
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C.
Hill House
Hill House is a renowned early 20th-century residential masterpiece in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and celebrated for its innovative Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau features.
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D.
Hill House
Hill House is a sinister, isolated mansion in Shirley Jackson’s horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," renowned as one of fiction’s most iconic haunted houses.
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E.
Waldo Hotel
The Waldo Hotel is a historic landmark hotel building in downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia, known for its early 20th-century architecture and past prominence as a social and commercial hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
allegedly haunted location
ⓘ
historic hotel ⓘ hotel ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Stanley Hotel
ⓘ
linked to:
The Stanley Hotel
|
| architecturalStyle | Colonial Revival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Stephen King
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ |
| builtFor | wealthy Eastern vacationers ⓘ |
| category |
Buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado
ⓘ
Haunted hotels in the United States ⓘ Hotels in Colorado ⓘ |
| city |
Estes Park
ⓘ
linked to:
Estes Park, Colorado
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevation | approximately 7,500 feet ⓘ |
| founder | Freelan Oscar Stanley ⓘ |
| hasAmenity |
bar
ⓘ
event spaces ⓘ restaurant ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
concert hall
ⓘ
condominiums ⓘ lodge building ⓘ main hotel building ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
being haunted
ⓘ
paranormal activity ⓘ |
| hasRoom | Room 217 ⓘ |
| inspirationFor |
the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining"
ⓘ
linked to:
haunted Overlook Hotel
|
| inspiredAuthor | Stephen King ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
novel "The Shining"
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining
|
| listedOn | National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
Estes Park, Colorado ⓘ Larimer County, Colorado ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter | Freelan Oscar Stanley ⓘ |
| near | Rocky Mountain National Park ⓘ |
| NRHPType | historic district contributing property ⓘ |
| numberOfRooms | over 140 ⓘ |
| offers |
ghost tours
ⓘ
historic tours ⓘ |
| opened | 1909 ⓘ |
| originalPurpose | mountain resort hotel ⓘ |
| Room217Significance | room where Stephen King reportedly stayed ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| theme | haunted hotel ⓘ |
| usedFor |
conferences
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ weddings ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1909 ⓘ |
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 Stanley Hotel Description of subject: The Stanley Hotel is a historic, allegedly haunted hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, best known as the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel "The Shining" and its related screen adaptations.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Stanley Hotel
linked to: The Stanley Hotel
linked to: The Stanley Hotel
subject linked to:
haunted Overlook Hotel
linked to: The Stanley Hotel