Lamia
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Lamia is a powerful, malevolent demon from folklore, depicted in "Drag Me to Hell" as a relentless supernatural force that curses and torments its victims before dragging their souls to hell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lamia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12976888 — 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: Lamia Context triple: [Drag Me to Hell, antagonist, Lamia]
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Lamia
Lamia is a narrative poem by John Keats that blends Greek myth, romance, and tragedy to explore themes of illusion, desire, and the conflict between enchantment and rationality.
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B.
Lamia
Lamia is a historic city in central Greece, known as the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and a strategic hub between northern and southern Greece.
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Lamía
Lamía is a city in central Greece that serves as the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and a key transport and administrative hub in the region.
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Pandosto
Pandosto is a 1588 prose romance by Robert Greene that famously served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s play "The Winter’s Tale."
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Endymion
Endymion is a long Romantic narrative poem by John Keats, best known for its opening line, “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”
- 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: Lamia Target entity description: Lamia is a powerful, malevolent demon from folklore, depicted in "Drag Me to Hell" as a relentless supernatural force that curses and torments its victims before dragging their souls to hell.
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A.
Lamia
Lamia is a narrative poem by John Keats that blends Greek myth, romance, and tragedy to explore themes of illusion, desire, and the conflict between enchantment and rationality.
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B.
Lamia
Lamia is a historic city in central Greece, known as the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and a strategic hub between northern and southern Greece.
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C.
Lamía
Lamía is a city in central Greece that serves as the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and a key transport and administrative hub in the region.
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D.
Pandosto
Pandosto is a 1588 prose romance by Robert Greene that famously served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s play "The Winter’s Tale."
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E.
Endymion
Endymion is a long Romantic narrative poem by John Keats, best known for its opening line, “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional demon
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film character ⓘ supernatural entity ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Drag Me to Hell ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
curse
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eternal damnation ⓘ haunting ⓘ possession ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Lamia from folklore
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linked to:
Lamia
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| behavior |
physical torment
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psychological torment ⓘ relentless pursuit of victim ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdForWorkDirectedBy | Sam Raimi ⓘ |
| franchise |
Drag Me to Hell (film)
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linked to:
Drag Me to Hell
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| genreContext | horror ⓘ |
| goal | claiming souls ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | European demonology ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| methodOfClaimingSoul | dragging victim to hell ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | evil ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | primary antagonist of Drag Me to Hell ⓘ |
| nature | malevolent ⓘ |
| notableVictim | Christine Brown ⓘ |
| opposedBy | spiritual medium ⓘ |
| perceptionByCharacters | unstoppable force ⓘ |
| power |
causing poltergeist activity
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environmental manipulation ⓘ inducing hallucinations ⓘ invisibility ⓘ shapeshifting illusions ⓘ supernatural strength ⓘ telekinesis ⓘ |
| primaryActivity |
cursing victims
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dragging souls to hell ⓘ tormenting victims ⓘ |
| realmOfDestination | hell ⓘ |
| summonedBy | curse placed by a human ⓘ |
| summoningObject | cursed button ⓘ |
| supernaturalType | demon ⓘ |
| symbolism | inescapable guilt and punishment ⓘ |
| target | cursed individual ⓘ |
| threatLevelInStory | extreme ⓘ |
| timeOfFinalClaim | after three days of torment ⓘ |
| vulnerableTo | exorcism rituals (partially) ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2009 ⓘ |
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: Lamia Description of subject: Lamia is a powerful, malevolent demon from folklore, depicted in "Drag Me to Hell" as a relentless supernatural force that curses and torments its victims before dragging their souls to hell.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.