Halloran house
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Halloran House is the eerie, isolated mansion that serves as the primary backdrop for Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "The Sundial."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Halloran estate | 3 |
| Halloran house canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316788 — 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: Halloran house Context triple: [The Sundial, setting, Halloran house]
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A.
Healy House
Healy House is a historic 19th-century residence in Leadville, Colorado, preserved as a museum showcasing Victorian-era life in a mining boomtown.
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B.
Donegall Place
Donegall Place is a major shopping street and central thoroughfare in Belfast, Northern Ireland, known for its retail outlets and proximity to key city landmarks.
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C.
Cullen house
Cullen house is the modern, secluded woodland residence of the Cullen family from the Twilight series, known for its glass-and-wood architecture and forested setting near Forks, Washington.
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D.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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E.
Ballyfin House
Ballyfin House is a grand 19th-century neoclassical country mansion in County Laois, Ireland, renowned for its lavish interiors and restoration as a luxury hotel.
- 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: Halloran house Target entity description: Halloran House is the eerie, isolated mansion that serves as the primary backdrop for Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "The Sundial."
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A.
Healy House
Healy House is a historic 19th-century residence in Leadville, Colorado, preserved as a museum showcasing Victorian-era life in a mining boomtown.
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B.
Donegall Place
Donegall Place is a major shopping street and central thoroughfare in Belfast, Northern Ireland, known for its retail outlets and proximity to key city landmarks.
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C.
Cullen house
Cullen house is the modern, secluded woodland residence of the Cullen family from the Twilight series, known for its glass-and-wood architecture and forested setting near Forks, Washington.
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D.
Blake House
Blake House is a historic residence and notable landmark located in the City of Fairfax, Virginia.
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E.
Ballyfin House
Ballyfin House is a grand 19th-century neoclassical country mansion in County Laois, Ireland, renowned for its lavish interiors and restoration as a luxury hotel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional mansion ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Sundial ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
apocalypse
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control and power ⓘ family conflict ⓘ isolation ⓘ madness ⓘ |
| containsFeature |
bedrooms
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gardens ⓘ hallways ⓘ library ⓘ sundial ⓘ |
| createdBy | Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| describedAs |
eerie
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isolated ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWork | The Sundial ⓘ |
| genreContext | gothic fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | rural estate grounds ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
site of supernatural overtones
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symbol of confinement ⓘ symbol of decaying privilege ⓘ |
| ownedByFictionalFamily | Halloran family ⓘ |
| primaryBackdropOf | The Sundial ⓘ |
| settingOf | The Sundial ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Halloran house Description of subject: Halloran House is the eerie, isolated mansion that serves as the primary backdrop for Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "The Sundial."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Halloran house
linked to: Halloran house