Sally Hurst
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Sally Hurst is the young girl protagonist in the horror film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," who becomes the target of sinister creatures lurking in her new home.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sally Hurst canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8766479 — 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: Sally Hurst Context triple: [Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, hasCharacter, Sally Hurst]
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A.
Fannie Hurst
Fannie Hurst was a popular early 20th-century American novelist and short-story writer known for her melodramatic tales of women’s lives and social issues, many of which were adapted into successful films.
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B.
Ruth Parker
Ruth Parker was the wife of American politician and businessman George C. Perkins, who served as governor of California and a U.S. senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Nelle Porter
Nelle Porter is a sharp, ambitious, and often icy attorney from the television series "Ally McBeal," known for her complex relationships and memorable presence at the law firm Cage & Fish.
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D.
Zona Gale
Zona Gale was an American author and playwright, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and play "Miss Lulu Bett" and for being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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E.
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist, short story writer, and playwright known for works like "Show Boat," "So Big," and "Giant," many of which were adapted for stage and film.
- 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: Sally Hurst Target entity description: Sally Hurst is the young girl protagonist in the horror film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," who becomes the target of sinister creatures lurking in her new home.
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A.
Fannie Hurst
Fannie Hurst was a popular early 20th-century American novelist and short-story writer known for her melodramatic tales of women’s lives and social issues, many of which were adapted into successful films.
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B.
Ruth Parker
Ruth Parker was the wife of American politician and businessman George C. Perkins, who served as governor of California and a U.S. senator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Nelle Porter
Nelle Porter is a sharp, ambitious, and often icy attorney from the television series "Ally McBeal," known for her complex relationships and memorable presence at the law firm Cage & Fish.
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D.
Zona Gale
Zona Gale was an American author and playwright, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and play "Miss Lulu Bett" and for being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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E.
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist, short story writer, and playwright known for works like "Show Boat," "So Big," and "Giant," many of which were adapted for stage and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| age | young girl ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
|
| characterArc | from curiosity to terror ⓘ |
| conflictType | human vs supernatural ⓘ |
| familyName | Hurst ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreContext | supernatural horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Sally ⓘ |
| hasFearTheme | fear of the dark ⓘ |
| livesIn | new home ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central victim ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | events often shown from her point of view ⓘ |
| primaryAntagonists | sinister creatures ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | new home ⓘ |
| storyFocus | her encounters with creatures in the house ⓘ |
| targetOf | sinister creatures ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | sinister creatures ⓘ |
| threatLocation |
dark places in the home
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inside the house ⓘ |
| workTypeAppearsIn | horror film ⓘ |
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: Sally Hurst Description of subject: Sally Hurst is the young girl protagonist in the horror film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," who becomes the target of sinister creatures lurking in her new home.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.