The Bad Place
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"The Bad Place" is a horror-thriller novel by Dean Koontz that follows a man with amnesia and terrifying supernatural abilities as he and a married team of private investigators uncover dark secrets about his past.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bad Place canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6524784 — 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: The Bad Place Context triple: [Dean Koontz, notableWork, The Bad Place]
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A.
A Bad Night
"A Bad Night" is a poem by A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, included in his children's poetry collection "When We Were Very Young."
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B.
The Big Nowhere
The Big Nowhere is a dark, complex crime novel by James Ellroy set in 1950s Los Angeles, blending police procedural, political conspiracy, and noir elements.
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C.
A Bad Dream
"A Bad Dream" is a melancholic piano-driven song by the English band Keane, known for its introspective lyrics and atmospheric, emotive sound.
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D.
The Worst
"The Worst" is a breakout R&B single by Jhené Aiko, known for its minimalist production and emotionally raw lyrics about a toxic relationship.
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E.
Good to Be Bad
Good to Be Bad is a 2008 hard rock studio album by British band Whitesnake, marking their return with new material after a long hiatus.
- 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: The Bad Place Target entity description: "The Bad Place" is a horror-thriller novel by Dean Koontz that follows a man with amnesia and terrifying supernatural abilities as he and a married team of private investigators uncover dark secrets about his past.
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A.
A Bad Night
"A Bad Night" is a poem by A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, included in his children's poetry collection "When We Were Very Young."
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B.
The Big Nowhere
The Big Nowhere is a dark, complex crime novel by James Ellroy set in 1950s Los Angeles, blending police procedural, political conspiracy, and noir elements.
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C.
A Bad Dream
"A Bad Dream" is a melancholic piano-driven song by the English band Keane, known for its introspective lyrics and atmospheric, emotive sound.
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D.
The Worst
"The Worst" is a breakout R&B single by Jhené Aiko, known for its minimalist production and emotionally raw lyrics about a toxic relationship.
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E.
Good to Be Bad
Good to Be Bad is a 2008 hard rock studio album by British band Whitesnake, marking their return with new material after a long hiatus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author | Dean Koontz ⓘ |
| character |
Bobby Dakota
ⓘ
Candy Pollard ⓘ Frank Pollard ⓘ Julie Dakota ⓘ Thomas Pollard ⓘ Violet Pollard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Dean Koontz ⓘ |
| features |
a married investigator couple
ⓘ
private investigators ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasAntagonist | Candy Pollard ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalElement |
clairvoyance
ⓘ
psychic powers ⓘ teleportation ability ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
amnesia
ⓘ
family secrets ⓘ good versus evil ⓘ identity ⓘ psychic connection ⓘ serial murder ⓘ supernatural abilities ⓘ teleportation ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| investigatedBy |
Bobby Dakota
ⓘ
Julie Dakota ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | American horror fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Frank Pollard ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | uncovering a dark past ⓘ |
| partOf | Dean Koontz bibliography ⓘ |
| protagonistHasCondition | amnesia ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | man with amnesia ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Dean Koontz ⓘ |
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: The Bad Place Description of subject: "The Bad Place" is a horror-thriller novel by Dean Koontz that follows a man with amnesia and terrifying supernatural abilities as he and a married team of private investigators uncover dark secrets about his past.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.