Billy Summers
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Billy Summers is a crime novel by Stephen King that follows a highly skilled hitman who takes on one final job while posing as a writer in a small town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Summers canonical | 2 |
| Billy Summers (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5292587 — 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: Billy Summers Context triple: [Stephen King bibliography, containsWork, Billy Summers]
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A.
Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor known for his role in the film "Longford" and various other screen and stage performances.
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B.
Jason Ballantine
Jason Ballantine is a film editor best known for his work on major genre films, including the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Billy De Wolfe
Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor and comedian known for his fussy, fast-talking persona in mid-20th-century film, stage, and television comedies.
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D.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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E.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
- 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: Billy Summers Target entity description: Billy Summers is a crime novel by Stephen King that follows a highly skilled hitman who takes on one final job while posing as a writer in a small town.
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A.
Robert Hobbs
Robert Hobbs is an actor known for his role in the film "Longford" and various other screen and stage performances.
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B.
Jason Ballantine
Jason Ballantine is a film editor best known for his work on major genre films, including the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Billy De Wolfe
Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor and comedian known for his fussy, fast-talking persona in mid-20th-century film, stage, and television comedies.
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D.
Mr. Franks
Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
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E.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| authorOccupation | novelist ⓘ |
| containsElement |
assassination plot
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ small-town setting ⓘ war veteran backstory ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverArtist | Will Staehle ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
suspense fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
2021 American novels
ⓘ
American crime novels ⓘ Novels by Stephen King ⓘ Scribner books ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Billy Summers (character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Billy Summers
|
| hasTheme |
identity
ⓘ
morality ⓘ redemption ⓘ trauma ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 1982173610 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9781982173616 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century literature ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| pageCount | 528 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A highly skilled hitman accepts one last job while posing as a writer in a small town. ⓘ |
| protagonistCoverIdentity | writer ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | hitman ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2021-08-03 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Scribner
ⓘ
linked to:
Scribner Books
|
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Billy Summers Description of subject: Billy Summers is a crime novel by Stephen King that follows a highly skilled hitman who takes on one final job while posing as a writer in a small town.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Billy Summers