Summerisle
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Summerisle is a remote, fictional Scottish island known as the pagan, isolated community featured in the 1973 horror film "The Wicker Man."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Summerisle canonical | 6 |
| pagan community of Summerisle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4625710 — 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: Summerisle Context triple: [The Wicker Man (1973 film), setting, Summerisle]
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A.
Summerhill
Summerhill is one of Atlanta’s oldest intown neighborhoods, known for its historic character and proximity to major sports and downtown venues.
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B.
Summerhill
Summerhill is a residential neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, known for its historic charm, tree-lined streets, and proximity to upscale shops and transit.
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C.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
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E.
The Village Wedding
The Village Wedding is a lively 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen that humorously depicts a chaotic peasant wedding celebration.
- 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: Summerisle Target entity description: Summerisle is a remote, fictional Scottish island known as the pagan, isolated community featured in the 1973 horror film "The Wicker Man."
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A.
Summerhill
Summerhill is a residential neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, known for its historic charm, tree-lined streets, and proximity to upscale shops and transit.
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B.
Summerhill
Summerhill is one of Atlanta’s oldest intown neighborhoods, known for its historic character and proximity to major sports and downtown venues.
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C.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
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E.
The Village Wedding
The Village Wedding is a lively 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen that humorously depicts a chaotic peasant wedding celebration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional island
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fictional location ⓘ film setting ⓘ |
| accessedBy | seaplane ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Wicker Man (1973 film) ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
clash of belief systems
ⓘ
fertility ⓘ paganism vs Christianity ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| communityType |
isolated community
ⓘ
pagan community ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | iconic folk-horror setting ⓘ |
| depictedAs | self-sufficient community ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
fruit cultivation ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre | horror film ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Wicker Man universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Wicker Man (1973 film)
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| filmProductionLocationDouble | various locations in Scotland ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Wicker Man (1973)
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linked to:
The Wicker Man (1973 film)
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| governedBy | Lord Summerisle ⓘ |
| hasClimate | mild for Scotland ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
folk songs
ⓘ
maypole dancing ⓘ seasonal festivals ⓘ |
| hasGenreAssociation | folk horror ⓘ |
| hasInhabitants | pagan villagers ⓘ |
| hasInn | The Green Man Inn ⓘ |
| hasLeader | Lord Summerisle ⓘ |
| hasReligion | paganism ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
fertility rites
ⓘ
human sacrifice ⓘ |
| hasSchool | village school ⓘ |
| hasStructure | wicker man effigy ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | harbor ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Scottish islands ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fruit harvests
ⓘ
pagan rituals ⓘ wicker man burning ceremony ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalRegion | Hebrides ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
setting of investigation
ⓘ
site of climactic sacrifice ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | early 1970s ⓘ |
| visitedByCharacter | Sergeant Neil Howie ⓘ |
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: Summerisle Description of subject: Summerisle is a remote, fictional Scottish island known as the pagan, isolated community featured in the 1973 horror film "The Wicker Man."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.