It
E37260
It is a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King about a shape-shifting entity that terrorizes children in the town of Derry, Maine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It canonical | 19 |
| It (entity) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T288588 — 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: It Context triple: [Stephen King, notableWork, It]
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A.
IN
IN is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing India in international standards and systems.
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B.
You
"You" refers to the collective community of internet users whose user-generated content and online collaboration transformed media, culture, and communication in the digital age.
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C.
IM
IM is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Isle of Man.
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D.
SI
SI is the abbreviation for Skeptical Inquirer, a magazine devoted to scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
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E.
ST
ST is the commonly used abbreviation for SkyTeam, a major global airline alliance.
- 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: It Target entity description: It is a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King about a shape-shifting entity that terrorizes children in the town of Derry, Maine.
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A.
IN
IN is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code representing India in international standards and systems.
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B.
You
"You" refers to the collective community of internet users whose user-generated content and online collaboration transformed media, culture, and communication in the digital age.
-
C.
IM
IM is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Isle of Man.
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D.
SI
SI is the abbreviation for Skeptical Inquirer, a magazine devoted to scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and the investigation of extraordinary claims.
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E.
ST
ST is the commonly used abbreviation for SkyTeam, a major global airline alliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: It Description of subject: It is a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King about a shape-shifting entity that terrorizes children in the town of Derry, Maine.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.