The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
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"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is a classic 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone that explores paranoia, mob mentality, and the fragility of social order in a suburban neighborhood.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street canonical | 7 |
| "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (1960) | 1 |
| The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (1960) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120476 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Context triple: [The Twilight Zone (TV series episodes), hasNotableEpisode, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street]
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A.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, widely regarded as one of the most infamous "so-bad-it's-good" cult movies in cinema history.
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B.
Children of the Corn
Children of the Corn is a horror short story by Stephen King about a couple who encounter a sinister cult of children in a remote Nebraska town.
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C.
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain is a 1953 science fiction horror film about a disembodied brain that telepathically controls a scientist, adapted from Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.
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D.
The Munsters
The Munsters is a 1960s American sitcom that humorously portrays a family of benign, monster-like characters living an otherwise ordinary suburban life.
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E.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is a famous horror story (and classic Twilight Zone episode) about a terrified airplane passenger who believes he sees a creature sabotaging the wing mid-flight.
- 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: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Target entity description: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is a classic 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone that explores paranoia, mob mentality, and the fragility of social order in a suburban neighborhood.
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A.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 low-budget science fiction horror film directed by Ed Wood, widely regarded as one of the most infamous "so-bad-it's-good" cult movies in cinema history.
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B.
Children of the Corn
Children of the Corn is a horror short story by Stephen King about a couple who encounter a sinister cult of children in a remote Nebraska town.
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C.
Donovan's Brain
Donovan's Brain is a 1953 science fiction horror film about a disembodied brain that telepathically controls a scientist, adapted from Curt Siodmak's novel of the same name.
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D.
The Munsters
The Munsters is a 1960s American sitcom that humorously portrays a family of benign, monster-like characters living an otherwise ordinary suburban life.
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E.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is a famous horror story (and classic Twilight Zone episode) about a terrified airplane passenger who believes he sees a creature sabotaging the wing mid-flight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
The Twilight Zone episode
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science fiction television episode ⓘ television episode ⓘ |
| closingNarrationBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creatorOfSeries | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful and enduring episodes of The Twilight Zone ⓘ |
| director | Ron Winston ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 22 ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Charlie Farnsworth
ⓘ
Les Goodman ⓘ Steve Brand ⓘ Tommy ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Maple Street ⓘ |
| followedBy | A World of Difference ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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psychological drama ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| guestStar |
Barry Atwater
ⓘ
Bennie Phillips ⓘ Claude Akins ⓘ Jack Weston ⓘ |
| hasBlackAndWhitePhotography | true ⓘ |
| influenced | later science fiction dealing with social paranoia and mass hysteria ⓘ |
| narrator | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| notableFor |
allegory of Cold War–era suspicion and McCarthyism
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depiction of how quickly ordinary people can turn on each other ⓘ |
| openingNarrationBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| originalAirDate | 1960-03-04 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
The Twilight Zone (original series)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| plotSummary | Residents of a quiet suburban street descend into suspicion and violence when a mysterious power outage leads them to believe that one of their neighbors is an alien in human form. ⓘ |
| precededBy | Mirror Image ⓘ |
| producer | Buck Houghton ⓘ |
| season | Season 1 ⓘ |
| series |
The Twilight Zone
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linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
|
| setting | suburban American neighborhood ⓘ |
| teleplayBy | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| theme |
fear of the unknown
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fragility of social order ⓘ mob mentality ⓘ paranoia ⓘ xenophobia ⓘ |
| title | The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street ⓘ |
| twistEnding | The chaos is revealed to be orchestrated by observing aliens who note that humans can destroy themselves through fear and suspicion. ⓘ |
| usedIn | educational curricula discussing prejudice and group behavior ⓘ |
| writer | Rod Serling ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstBroadcast | 1960 ⓘ |
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Referenced by (9)
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subject linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
linked to: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
linked to: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street