Thackery Binx
E323393
Thackery Binx is a bewitched 17th-century boy cursed to live forever as a talking black cat in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thackery Binx canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056284 — 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: Thackery Binx Context triple: [Hocus Pocus, mainCharacter, Thackery Binx]
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A.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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B.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
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C.
C. K. Dexter-Haven
C. K. Dexter-Haven is the charming, witty ex-husband of socialite Tracy Lord in the musical film "High Society," famously portrayed by Bing Crosby.
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D.
Walter Finch
Walter Finch is the elusive and morally ambiguous antagonist in the psychological thriller film "Insomnia" (2002), portrayed by Robin Williams.
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E.
Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
- 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: Thackery Binx Target entity description: Thackery Binx is a bewitched 17th-century boy cursed to live forever as a talking black cat in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus."
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A.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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B.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
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C.
C. K. Dexter-Haven
C. K. Dexter-Haven is the charming, witty ex-husband of socialite Tracy Lord in the musical film "High Society," famously portrayed by Bing Crosby.
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D.
Walter Finch
Walter Finch is the elusive and morally ambiguous antagonist in the psychological thriller film "Insomnia" (2002), portrayed by Robin Williams.
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E.
Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ability | talking ⓘ |
| afterlifeReunionWith | Emily Binx ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hocus Pocus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Allison
ⓘ
Black Flame Candle ⓘ Dani Dennison ⓘ Max Dennison ⓘ Sanderson Sisters ⓘ
linked to:
Sanderson sisters
|
| cannot | die ⓘ |
| cursedBy |
Mary Sanderson
ⓘ
Sanderson Sisters ⓘ
linked to:
Sanderson sisters
Sarah Sanderson ⓘ Winifred Sanderson ⓘ |
| curseEffect |
immortality
ⓘ
transformation into cat ⓘ |
| death | spirit released after Sanderson Sisters are defeated ⓘ |
| eyeColorAsHuman | brown ⓘ |
| familyMember | Emily Binx ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Hocus Pocus (1993 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hocus Pocus
|
| form | black cat ⓘ |
| franchise |
Hocus Pocus franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Hocus Pocus
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal |
prevent Sanderson Sisters from returning
ⓘ
protect the Black Flame Candle ⓘ |
| hairColorAsHuman | brown ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American (colonial) ⓘ |
| originatesFrom |
17th century
ⓘ
Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sean Murray ⓘ |
| role |
guardian
ⓘ
guide to modern children ⓘ |
| setting | Salem ⓘ |
| sibling | Emily Binx ⓘ |
| species |
cat
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfHumanLife | Salem witch trials era ⓘ |
| voiceBy | Jason Marsden ⓘ |
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: Thackery Binx Description of subject: Thackery Binx is a bewitched 17th-century boy cursed to live forever as a talking black cat in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.