Susan Norton
E221579
Susan Norton is a central protagonist in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," known for her involvement in uncovering and confronting the vampire infestation in the town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan Norton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725264 — 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: Susan Norton Context triple: [Salem's Lot, mainCharacter, Susan Norton]
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A.
Jean Rogers
Jean Rogers is known as the wife of American country music singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers.
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B.
Sally Menke
Sally Menke was an American film editor best known for her long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino on films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds.
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C.
Karen Verne
Karen Verne was a German-born actress who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1940s and was once married to actor Peter Lorre.
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D.
Susan Saunders
Susan Saunders is the daughter of classic Hollywood actress Fay Wray, best known for her iconic role in the 1933 film "King Kong."
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E.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
- 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: Susan Norton Target entity description: Susan Norton is a central protagonist in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," known for her involvement in uncovering and confronting the vampire infestation in the town.
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A.
Jean Rogers
Jean Rogers is known as the wife of American country music singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers.
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B.
Sally Menke
Sally Menke was an American film editor best known for her long-time collaboration with director Quentin Tarantino on films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds.
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C.
Karen Verne
Karen Verne was a German-born actress who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1940s and was once married to actor Peter Lorre.
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D.
Susan Saunders
Susan Saunders is the daughter of classic Hollywood actress Fay Wray, best known for her iconic role in the 1933 film "King Kong."
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E.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Salem’s Lot
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot
|
| appearsInAdaptation |
Salem’s Lot (1979 miniseries)
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)
Salem’s Lot (2004 miniseries) ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot (2004 miniseries)
|
| appearsInUniverse |
Stephen King universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen King multiverse
|
| associatedWith |
Ben Mears
ⓘ
Father Callahan ⓘ Mark Petrie ⓘ Matt Burke ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Jerusalem’s Lot
ⓘ
linked to:
Jerusalem's Lot
|
| characterType |
brave
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ |
| confronts | vampires in Jerusalem’s Lot ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Kurt Barlow ⓘ |
| familyName | Norton ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel Salem’s Lot (1975)
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | horror fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Susan ⓘ |
| involvedIn | investigation of vampire infestation in Jerusalem’s Lot ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Ben Mears ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableAction |
assists Ben Mears in uncovering the source of the town’s disappearances
ⓘ
attempts to warn others about the growing evil in Salem’s Lot ⓘ |
| occupation | artist ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork |
Doubleday (for Salem’s Lot)
ⓘ
linked to:
Doubleday
|
| residesIn |
Jerusalem’s Lot
ⓘ
linked to:
Jerusalem's Lot
Maine ⓘ |
| role |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Susan Norton Description of subject: Susan Norton is a central protagonist in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot," known for her involvement in uncovering and confronting the vampire infestation in the town.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.