Button, Button
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"Button, Button" is a suspenseful short story by Richard Matheson that explores moral dilemmas and the consequences of greed through a mysterious offer involving a deadly button.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Button, Button canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1753798 — 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: Button, Button Context triple: [Richard Matheson, wrote, Button, Button]
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A.
BTN
BTN is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Bhutan.
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B.
Bar
Bar is a coastal city and major seaport in southern Montenegro on the Adriatic Sea.
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C.
Bun
Bun is a modern, high-performance JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as an alternative to Node.js and Deno, featuring a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager.
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D.
Berry
Berry is a historic province in central France known for its rural landscapes, medieval heritage, and traditional French culture.
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E.
WIN button
The WIN button was a widely distributed lapel pin used in the mid-1970s as part of U.S. President Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” campaign to encourage public action against inflation.
- 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: Button, Button Target entity description: "Button, Button" is a suspenseful short story by Richard Matheson that explores moral dilemmas and the consequences of greed through a mysterious offer involving a deadly button.
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A.
BTN
BTN is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Bhutan.
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B.
Bar
Bar is a coastal city and major seaport in southern Montenegro on the Adriatic Sea.
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C.
Bun
Bun is a modern, high-performance JavaScript runtime and toolkit designed as an alternative to Node.js and Deno, featuring a built-in bundler, test runner, and package manager.
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D.
Berry
Berry is a historic province in central France known for its rural landscapes, medieval heritage, and traditional French culture.
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E.
WIN button
The WIN button was a widely distributed lapel pin used in the mid-1970s as part of U.S. President Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” campaign to encourage public action against inflation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| adaptationBasisFor | film The Box ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Twilight Zone episode Button, Button (1986)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)
segment of the film The Box (2009) ⓘ |
| antagonist | Mr. Steward ⓘ |
| author | Richard Matheson ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
consequences of choices
ⓘ
greed ⓘ moral dilemma ⓘ temptation ⓘ the value of human life ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| firstPublicationDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
ⓘ
speculative fiction ⓘ suspense fiction ⓘ |
| hasTwistEnding | true ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Button, Button (short story collection) ⓘ |
| keyElement | deadly offer involving money ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | short fiction ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century American speculative fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Arthur Lewis ⓘ |
| moralQuestion | Is it acceptable to harm an unknown person for personal gain? ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| plotDevice | mysterious box with a button ⓘ |
| protagonist | Norma Lewis ⓘ |
| publisherCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| tone |
dark
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ |
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: Button, Button Description of subject: "Button, Button" is a suspenseful short story by Richard Matheson that explores moral dilemmas and the consequences of greed through a mysterious offer involving a deadly button.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.