Bad Dreams
E1045147
Bad Dreams is a horror novel by British author and critic Kim Newman, blending dark fantasy with metafictional elements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Dreams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13500554 — 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: Bad Dreams Context triple: [Kim Newman, notableWork, Bad Dreams]
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A.
Bad Dreams
Bad Dreams is a 1988 psychological horror film about a cult survivor haunted by her past, directed by Andrew Fleming.
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B.
Worse Dreams
"Worse Dreams" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden from their 2012 reunion album "King Animal."
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C.
Dry Dreams
Dry Dreams is a music album by James Dennis Carroll, better known as punk poet and musician Jim Carroll, showcasing his distinctive blend of spoken-word storytelling and rock.
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D.
Nightmares
"Nightmares" is a 1980s horror anthology film in which Persis Khambatta appears, known for its collection of eerie, self-contained stories.
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E.
Nightmares
Nightmares is an alternate campaign mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops III that reimagines the main story with a supernatural, zombie-infested twist.
- 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: Bad Dreams Target entity description: Bad Dreams is a horror novel by British author and critic Kim Newman, blending dark fantasy with metafictional elements.
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A.
Bad Dreams
Bad Dreams is a 1988 psychological horror film about a cult survivor haunted by her past, directed by Andrew Fleming.
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B.
Worse Dreams
"Worse Dreams" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden from their 2012 reunion album "King Animal."
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C.
Dry Dreams
Dry Dreams is a music album by James Dennis Carroll, better known as punk poet and musician Jim Carroll, showcasing his distinctive blend of spoken-word storytelling and rock.
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D.
Nightmares
"Nightmares" is a 1980s horror anthology film in which Persis Khambatta appears, known for its collection of eerie, self-contained stories.
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E.
Nightmares
Nightmares is an alternate campaign mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops III that reimagines the main story with a supernatural, zombie-infested twist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark fantasy novel
ⓘ
horror novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Kim Newman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Kim Newman ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ metafiction ⓘ |
| hasAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Kim Newman ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | critic ⓘ |
| hasDarkFantasyElements | true ⓘ |
| hasHorrorElements | true ⓘ |
| hasMetafictionalElements | true ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTechnique | metafiction ⓘ |
| hasStyle | genre-blending ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter |
dreams
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nightmares ⓘ |
| isWrittenBy | Kim Newman ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | British horror literature ⓘ |
| writtenIn | 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: Bad Dreams Description of subject: Bad Dreams is a horror novel by British author and critic Kim Newman, blending dark fantasy with metafictional elements.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.