Ev Hillman
E721689
Ev Hillman is a character in Stephen King’s science fiction-horror novel "The Tommyknockers," involved in the eerie events surrounding the discovery of a buried alien spacecraft in the town of Haven, Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ev Hillman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8242899 — 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: Ev Hillman Context triple: [The Tommyknockers, hasCharacter, Ev Hillman]
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A.
Bob Hilliard
Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist known for writing popular songs for films and Broadway during the mid-20th century.
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B.
David Hilliard
David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Art Hill
Art Hill is a prominent sloping lawn and gathering area in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, St. Louis, known for its scenic views and public events.
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D.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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E.
Steve Hilliard
Steve Hilliard is a character in the romantic comedy film "The Opposite Sex."
- 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: Ev Hillman Target entity description: Ev Hillman is a character in Stephen King’s science fiction-horror novel "The Tommyknockers," involved in the eerie events surrounding the discovery of a buried alien spacecraft in the town of Haven, Maine.
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A.
Bob Hilliard
Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist known for writing popular songs for films and Broadway during the mid-20th century.
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B.
David Hilliard
David Hilliard is an American activist and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, known for his prominent role in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Art Hill
Art Hill is a prominent sloping lawn and gathering area in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park, St. Louis, known for its scenic views and public events.
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D.
Ian Hill
Ian Hill is an English bassist best known as a founding member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
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E.
Steve Hilliard
Steve Hilliard is a character in the romantic comedy film "The Opposite Sex."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tommyknockers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Haven, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Tommyknockers universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction horror ⓘ |
| involvedIn | discovery of a buried alien spacecraft near Haven, Maine ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| publicationAuthorWork | Stephen King novel The Tommyknockers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
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: Ev Hillman Description of subject: Ev Hillman is a character in Stephen King’s science fiction-horror novel "The Tommyknockers," involved in the eerie events surrounding the discovery of a buried alien spacecraft in the town of Haven, Maine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.