Danny
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Danny is the young, psychically gifted son of Jack Torrance in Stephen King’s horror novel "The Shining" and its film adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5731887 — 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: Danny Context triple: [Danny Torrance, nickname, Danny]
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A.
Danny
Danny is the young boy protagonist of the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure," whose discovery of a mysterious board game launches the story’s intergalactic journey.
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B.
Danny
Danny is the charismatic, hard-drinking World War I veteran whose inherited houses and loose community of friends drive the picaresque adventures in John Steinbeck’s novel "Tortilla Flat."
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C.
Dave
Dave is a common masculine given name, often a shortened form of David, used widely in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Dash
Dash is a lightweight, POSIX-compliant Unix shell designed for fast script execution and minimal resource usage, commonly used as the default /bin/sh on some Linux systems.
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E.
Dash
Dash is the nickname of the Winston-Salem Dash, a Minor League Baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
- 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: Danny Target entity description: Danny is the young, psychically gifted son of Jack Torrance in Stephen King’s horror novel "The Shining" and its film adaptations.
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A.
Danny
Danny is the young boy protagonist of the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure," whose discovery of a mysterious board game launches the story’s intergalactic journey.
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B.
Danny
Danny is the charismatic, hard-drinking World War I veteran whose inherited houses and loose community of friends drive the picaresque adventures in John Steinbeck’s novel "Tortilla Flat."
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C.
Dave
Dave is a common masculine given name, often a shortened form of David, used widely in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Dash
Dash is a lightweight, POSIX-compliant Unix shell designed for fast script execution and minimal resource usage, commonly used as the default /bin/sh on some Linux systems.
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E.
Dash
Dash is the nickname of the Winston-Salem Dash, a Minor League Baseball team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| abilityName |
the shining
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining
|
| adaptedInto | television portrayal in The Shining (1997 miniseries) ⓘ |
| ageInWork |
5 years old in The Shining (novel)
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about 6 years old in The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ adult in Doctor Sleep ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Doctor Sleep (2019 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
Doctor Sleep
The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ The Shining (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining
|
| associatedWith |
Overlook Hotel
ⓘ
linked to:
Overlook Hotel site
ghosts of the Overlook Hotel ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining
the True Knot (in Doctor Sleep) ⓘ
linked to:
The True Knot
|
| basedIn |
Colorado (Overlook Hotel setting)
ⓘ
linked to:
haunted Overlook Hotel
|
| characterIn |
Doctor Sleep (story)
ⓘ
linked to:
Doctor Sleep
The Shining (story) ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| familyName | Torrance ⓘ |
| father | Jack Torrance ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Stephen King multiverse ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Shining (1977 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining
|
| genre | horror fiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Daniel Anthony Torrance
ⓘ
linked to:
Danny Torrance
|
| hasAbility |
clairvoyance
ⓘ
precognition ⓘ psychic communication ⓘ telepathy ⓘ |
| hasImaginaryFriend | Tony ⓘ |
| hasPsychologicalTheme |
recovery from alcoholism (as adult in Doctor Sleep)
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trauma from parental abuse ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Wendy Torrance ⓘ |
| nickname | Danny ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
highly sensitive to supernatural forces
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imaginary friend named Tony ⓘ psychic visions ⓘ young age ⓘ |
| notableWork | events at the Overlook Hotel ⓘ |
| occupation | child ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Courtland Mead
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Danny Lloyd ⓘ Ewan McGregor ⓘ Roger Dale Floyd ⓘ |
| relative |
Jack Torrance
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Wendy Torrance ⓘ |
| residence |
Overlook Hotel (temporary)
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linked to:
Overlook Hotel site
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| subjectOf |
Doctor Sleep (sequel focusing on adult Danny)
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linked to:
Doctor Sleep
|
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: Danny Description of subject: Danny is the young, psychically gifted son of Jack Torrance in Stephen King’s horror novel "The Shining" and its film adaptations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.