Cressner
E721773
Cressner is the sadistic, wealthy gambler and primary villain in Stephen King’s short story “The Ledge,” known for forcing a man to risk his life by walking around a narrow ledge high above the city.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cressner canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243990 — 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: Cressner Context triple: [The Ledge, antagonist, Cressner]
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A.
Crouse
Crouse is a surname most notably associated with American actress Lindsay Crouse and her family.
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B.
Lockweiler
Lockweiler is a village-level district within the town of Wadern in the Saarland region of Germany.
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C.
Thierstein
Thierstein is a district in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, comprising several municipalities near the French border.
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D.
Cresserons
Cresserons is a small commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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E.
Vanselow
Vanselow is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including figures such as Ernst Vanselow.
- 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: Cressner Target entity description: Cressner is the sadistic, wealthy gambler and primary villain in Stephen King’s short story “The Ledge,” known for forcing a man to risk his life by walking around a narrow ledge high above the city.
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A.
Crouse
Crouse is a surname most notably associated with American actress Lindsay Crouse and her family.
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B.
Lockweiler
Lockweiler is a village-level district within the town of Wadern in the Saarland region of Germany.
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C.
Thierstein
Thierstein is a district in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, comprising several municipalities near the French border.
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D.
Cresserons
Cresserons is a small commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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E.
Vanselow
Vanselow is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including figures such as Ernst Vanselow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary villain ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| adaptationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Cat's Eye ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Night Shift
ⓘ
The Ledge ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
sadistic
ⓘ
wealthy ⓘ |
| collectedIn |
Night Shift (1978 short story collection)
ⓘ
linked to:
Night Shift
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| firstPublication | Penthouse magazine ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
suspense fiction ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| motivation |
desire to exert power over others
ⓘ
enjoyment of dangerous wagers ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | forces a man to walk around a narrow ledge high above the city ⓘ |
| notableTrait | uses gambling bets to control people ⓘ |
| occupation | gambler ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kenneth McMillan ⓘ |
| role | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActions | high-rise building ⓘ |
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: Cressner Description of subject: Cressner is the sadistic, wealthy gambler and primary villain in Stephen King’s short story “The Ledge,” known for forcing a man to risk his life by walking around a narrow ledge high above the city.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.