Quitters, Inc.
E192806
"Quitters, Inc." is a darkly comic horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister company that uses extreme methods to force clients to stop smoking.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714734 — 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: Quitters, Inc. Context triple: [Night Shift, hasShortStory, Quitters, Inc.]
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A.
Exicure, Inc.
Exicure, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in nucleic acid therapeutics based on spherical nucleic acid (SNA) technology.
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B.
The Dropout
The Dropout is a Hulu limited series dramatizing the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the biotech fraud scandal surrounding her company.
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C.
The Start-up of You
The Start-up of You is a career strategy book that applies entrepreneurial principles to personal and professional development, co-written by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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D.
The Runners
The Runners are an American record production duo known for crafting polished, radio-friendly hip hop and R&B tracks for major artists.
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E.
Bottle Works
Bottle Works is an interactive exhibit at the World of Coca-Cola that showcases the bottling process and production of Coca-Cola beverages.
- 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: Quitters, Inc. Target entity description: "Quitters, Inc." is a darkly comic horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister company that uses extreme methods to force clients to stop smoking.
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A.
Exicure, Inc.
Exicure, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in nucleic acid therapeutics based on spherical nucleic acid (SNA) technology.
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B.
The Dropout
The Dropout is a Hulu limited series dramatizing the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the biotech fraud scandal surrounding her company.
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C.
The Start-up of You
The Start-up of You is a career strategy book that applies entrepreneurial principles to personal and professional development, co-written by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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D.
The Runners
The Runners are an American record production duo known for crafting polished, radio-friendly hip hop and R&B tracks for major artists.
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E.
Bottle Works
Bottle Works is an interactive exhibit at the World of Coca-Cola that showcases the bottling process and production of Coca-Cola beverages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Quitters, Inc. (1985 short film segment)
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linked to:
Quitters, Inc.
Quitters, Inc. (segment of the film Cat's Eye) ⓘ
linked to:
Quitters, Inc.
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| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
addiction
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coercion ⓘ family endangerment ⓘ loss of free will ⓘ smoking cessation ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter |
Dick Morrison
ⓘ
Jimmy McCann ⓘ Vic Donatti ⓘ |
| fictionalOrganizationFeatured | Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Night Shift ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
horror ⓘ psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
film adaptation segment
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| includedInCollection |
Night Shift (short story collection)
ⓘ
linked to:
Night Shift
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | darkly comic tone ⓘ |
| mainAntagonist | Quitters, Inc. company ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of horror and dark humor
ⓘ
depiction of a company enforcing non-smoking through torture ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorPeriod | early Stephen King short fiction ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man seeks help to quit smoking and discovers the company he hires uses torture and threats against his family to enforce abstinence. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Dick Morrison ⓘ |
| publicationType | short story collection contribution ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstCollection | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| subjectMatter |
extreme aversion therapy
ⓘ
smoking addiction ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | late 20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
grim
ⓘ
satirical ⓘ |
| usesMotif |
behavior modification
ⓘ
electric shock torture ⓘ |
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: Quitters, Inc. Description of subject: "Quitters, Inc." is a darkly comic horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister company that uses extreme methods to force clients to stop smoking.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Stephen King short story Quitters, Inc.
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subject linked to:
Stephen King short story Quitters, Inc.
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