Stan Norris
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Stan Norris is the protagonist of Stephen King's short story "The Ledge," a tense thriller about a man forced to risk his life by traversing a narrow ledge high above the ground.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stan Norris canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243989 — 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: Stan Norris Context triple: [The Ledge, mainCharacter, Stan Norris]
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A.
Wayne Norris
Wayne Norris is a fictional character from the British television comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," which follows a group of British construction workers seeking employment abroad.
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B.
Ken Norris
Ken Norris was a pioneering marine mammalogist and educator best known for his influential work in dolphin research and marine park development.
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C.
Ken Norris
Ken Norris was a British engineer best known for designing record-breaking high-speed hydroplanes and land-speed vehicles, including Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7.
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D.
Scott Norwood
Scott Norwood is a former NFL placekicker best known for his crucial missed field goal in Super Bowl XXV while playing for the Buffalo Bills.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- 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: Stan Norris Target entity description: Stan Norris is the protagonist of Stephen King's short story "The Ledge," a tense thriller about a man forced to risk his life by traversing a narrow ledge high above the ground.
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A.
Wayne Norris
Wayne Norris is a fictional character from the British television comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," which follows a group of British construction workers seeking employment abroad.
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B.
Ken Norris
Ken Norris was a pioneering marine mammalogist and educator best known for his influential work in dolphin research and marine park development.
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C.
Ken Norris
Ken Norris was a British engineer best known for designing record-breaking high-speed hydroplanes and land-speed vehicles, including Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7.
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D.
Scott Norwood
Scott Norwood is a former NFL placekicker best known for his crucial missed field goal in Super Bowl XXV while playing for the Buffalo Bills.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
short story character ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| adaptedFromWork | The Ledge ⓘ |
| antagonist | Cressner ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Night Shift
ⓘ
The Ledge ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | Cat's Eye ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Stephen King universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen King multiverse
|
| firstPublication | Night Shift ⓘ |
| forcedTo | walk along a narrow ledge high above the ground ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | victim of a sadistic bet ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableScene | circumventing obstacles such as pigeons and wind on the ledge ⓘ |
| occupation | tennis pro ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Robert Hays ⓘ |
| reasonForPunishment | affair with Cressner's wife ⓘ |
| relationship | lover of Cressner's wife ⓘ |
| risk | risk of falling to his death ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
| seeks | revenge on Cressner at the end of the story ⓘ |
| settingOfMainOrdeal | high-rise building ⓘ |
| survival | survives the ledge ordeal in the story ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | Cressner ⓘ |
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: Stan Norris Description of subject: Stan Norris is the protagonist of Stephen King's short story "The Ledge," a tense thriller about a man forced to risk his life by traversing a narrow ledge high above the ground.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Stephen King short story The Ledge