The Vault of Horror (EC Comics)
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The Vault of Horror (EC Comics) is a classic 1950s horror anthology comic book series from EC Comics, renowned for its macabre twist-ending stories and major influence on later horror media.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Vault of Horror | 6 |
| The Vault of Horror (EC Comics) canonical | 2 |
| EC Archives: The Vault of Horror | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135604 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics) Context triple: [Creepshow, inspiredBy, The Vault of Horror (EC Comics)]
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Weird Tales magazine
Weird Tales magazine is a pioneering American pulp magazine, first published in 1923, renowned for its influential weird fiction and horror stories by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
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Amazing Fantasy #15
Amazing Fantasy #15 is a 1962 Marvel comic book issue famed for introducing the iconic superhero Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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C.
EC Comics
EC Comics was an influential American comic book publisher best known for its groundbreaking horror, crime, war, and satire titles that pushed creative and censorship boundaries in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Tales from the Crypt
Tales from the Crypt is a popular horror anthology television series known for its darkly comedic, gruesome stories introduced by the iconic Crypt Keeper.
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The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics) Target entity description: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics) is a classic 1950s horror anthology comic book series from EC Comics, renowned for its macabre twist-ending stories and major influence on later horror media.
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A.
Weird Tales magazine
Weird Tales magazine is a pioneering American pulp magazine, first published in 1923, renowned for its influential weird fiction and horror stories by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
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B.
Amazing Fantasy #15
Amazing Fantasy #15 is a 1962 Marvel comic book issue famed for introducing the iconic superhero Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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C.
EC Comics
EC Comics was an influential American comic book publisher best known for its groundbreaking horror, crime, war, and satire titles that pushed creative and censorship boundaries in the 1940s and 1950s.
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D.
Tales from the Crypt
Tales from the Crypt is a popular horror anthology television series known for its darkly comedic, gruesome stories introduced by the iconic Crypt Keeper.
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E.
The Ghoul Man
The Ghoul Man is a reanimated corpse character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Vault of Horror (EC Comics) Description of subject: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics) is a classic 1950s horror anthology comic book series from EC Comics, renowned for its macabre twist-ending stories and major influence on later horror media.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics)
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The Haunt of Fear (EC Comics)
linked to: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics)
linked to: The Vault of Horror (EC Comics)