Salem's Lot
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Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 'Salem's Lot | 11 |
| Salem's Lot canonical | 5 |
| Salem’s Lot | 4 |
| Salem's Lot (novel) | 3 |
| ’Salem’s Lot | 3 |
| Jerusalem's Lot | 2 |
| ‘Salem’s Lot | 2 |
| 'Salem's Lot series | 1 |
| Salem’s Lot (1975 novel) | 1 |
| Salem’s Lot (1975) | 1 |
| Salem’s Lot (novel) | 1 |
| Stephen King’s novel Salem’s Lot | 1 |
| novel Salem’s Lot (1975) | 1 |
| ’Salem’s Lot (1975 novel) | 1 |
| ’Salem’s Lot universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T288591 — 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: Salem's Lot Context triple: [Stephen King, notableWork, Salem's Lot]
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A.
Carrie
"Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
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The Stand
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror novel by Stephen King that follows survivors of a devastating plague as they become embroiled in an epic battle between good and evil.
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The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
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Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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Mystic Massacre
Mystic Massacre was a pivotal and brutal 1637 attack during the Pequot War in which English colonists and their Native allies destroyed a fortified Pequot village, killing hundreds and effectively breaking Pequot resistance in New England.
- 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: Salem's Lot Target entity description: Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
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A.
Carrie
"Carrie" is Stephen King's debut horror novel, centered on a bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers who exacts a devastating revenge on her tormentors.
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B.
The Stand
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror novel by Stephen King that follows survivors of a devastating plague as they become embroiled in an epic battle between good and evil.
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C.
The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
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D.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was a catastrophic 1935 dust storm during the Dust Bowl that turned daytime skies black and became one of the era’s most infamous environmental disasters.
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E.
Mystic Massacre
Mystic Massacre was a pivotal and brutal 1637 attack during the Pequot War in which English colonists and their Native allies destroyed a fortified Pequot village, killing hundreds and effectively breaking Pequot resistance in New England.
- 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: Salem's Lot Description of subject: Salem's Lot is a horror novel by Stephen King about a small town slowly overtaken by vampires.
Referenced by (38)
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