Woodsboro
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Woodsboro is the fictional small town that serves as the primary setting for much of the Scream horror film franchise.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woodsboro canonical | 10 |
| Woodsboro Sheriff’s Department | 1 |
| Woodsboro cinema (Stab screening) | 1 |
| Woodsboro town square | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3691969 — 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: Woodsboro Context triple: [Scream 4, setIn, Woodsboro]
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A.
Haddonfield
Haddonfield is a historic suburban borough in Camden County, New Jersey, known for its charming downtown, colonial-era architecture, and strong community character.
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B.
Plainville
Plainville is a small suburban town in central Connecticut, known for its residential character and proximity to the city of Hartford.
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C.
Aldenville
Aldenville is the former name of the small Sierra Nevada foothill town now known as Colfax, California.
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D.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a rapidly growing commuter town in central Colorado known for its distinctive castle-shaped butte and family-oriented suburban character between Denver and Colorado Springs.
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E.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a psychological horror television series inspired by the interconnected universe of Stephen King’s stories, released as an original program on Hulu.
- 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: Woodsboro Target entity description: Woodsboro is the fictional small town that serves as the primary setting for much of the Scream horror film franchise.
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A.
Haddonfield
Haddonfield is a historic suburban borough in Camden County, New Jersey, known for its charming downtown, colonial-era architecture, and strong community character.
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B.
Plainville
Plainville is a small suburban town in central Connecticut, known for its residential character and proximity to the city of Hartford.
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C.
Aldenville
Aldenville is the former name of the small Sierra Nevada foothill town now known as Colfax, California.
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D.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a rapidly growing commuter town in central Colorado known for its distinctive castle-shaped butte and family-oriented suburban character between Denver and Colorado Springs.
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E.
Castle Rock
Castle Rock is a psychological horror television series inspired by the interconnected universe of Stephen King’s stories, released as an original program on Hulu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional town ⓘ setting in film ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Scream (1996 film)
ⓘ
Scream (2022 film) ⓘ Scream 2 ⓘ Scream 3 ⓘ Scream 4 ⓘ Scream VI (mentioned) ⓘ
linked to:
Scream VI
|
| associatedWithCharacter | Ghostface ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | Stab (fictional film series) ⓘ |
| countryInFiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Kevin Williamson ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
slasher ⓘ |
| hasInstitutionInFiction |
Woodsboro High School
ⓘ
Woodsboro Hospital ⓘ Woodsboro Police Department ⓘ |
| hasLocationInFiction |
Loomis family home
ⓘ
linked to:
Bates family mansion
Macher house ⓘ Prescott family home ⓘ Riley family home ⓘ Woodsboro cinema (Stab screening) ⓘ
linked to:
Woodsboro
Woodsboro town square ⓘ
linked to:
Woodsboro
video rental store ⓘ |
| hasResidentInFiction |
Billy Loomis
ⓘ
Dewey Riley ⓘ Judy Hicks ⓘ Randy Meeks ⓘ Sam Carpenter (formerly) ⓘ
linked to:
Sam Carpenter
Sidney Prescott ⓘ Stu Macher ⓘ Tara Carpenter ⓘ Tatum Riley ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
media and true-crime obsession
ⓘ
violence invading suburban normalcy ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | typical American suburban towns ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | suburban backdrop for meta-slasher commentary ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting of Scream franchise ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
copycat Ghostface killings
ⓘ
original Ghostface killing spree ⓘ |
| partOf |
Scream franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Scream film series
|
| populationCharacteristic | small town ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | various real California filming locations ⓘ |
| stateInFiction |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
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: Woodsboro Description of subject: Woodsboro is the fictional small town that serves as the primary setting for much of the Scream horror film franchise.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Woodsboro
linked to: Woodsboro
linked to: Woodsboro