The Frightened Child
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"The Frightened Child" is a suspense novel by Dana Lyon that blends psychological tension and mystery, best known today as the literary source for the film "The House on Telegraph Hill."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Frightened Child canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13338647 — 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 Frightened Child Context triple: [The House on Telegraph Hill, basedOn, The Frightened Child]
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A.
the Nightmare Child
The Nightmare Child is a terrifying, near-mythic weapon or entity from Doctor Who lore, infamous for its role in the Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks.
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B.
The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-drama film about a seemingly perfect little girl who may be a remorseless killer.
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C.
Bittendes Kind
"Bittendes Kind" is one of the short, characterful piano pieces in Robert Schumann's "Kinderszenen," depicting the tender, pleading mood of a child.
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D.
God Help the Child
God Help the Child is a 2015 novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of childhood trauma, colorism, and the lasting impact of abuse through the story of a dark-skinned woman named Bride.
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E.
The Innocents
The Innocents is a 1961 British psychological horror film, acclaimed for its atmospheric cinematography and chilling adaptation of Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw."
- 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 Frightened Child Target entity description: "The Frightened Child" is a suspense novel by Dana Lyon that blends psychological tension and mystery, best known today as the literary source for the film "The House on Telegraph Hill."
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A.
the Nightmare Child
The Nightmare Child is a terrifying, near-mythic weapon or entity from Doctor Who lore, infamous for its role in the Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks.
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B.
The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-drama film about a seemingly perfect little girl who may be a remorseless killer.
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C.
Bittendes Kind
"Bittendes Kind" is one of the short, characterful piano pieces in Robert Schumann's "Kinderszenen," depicting the tender, pleading mood of a child.
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D.
God Help the Child
God Help the Child is a 2015 novel by Toni Morrison that explores themes of childhood trauma, colorism, and the lasting impact of abuse through the story of a dark-skinned woman named Bride.
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E.
The Innocents
The Innocents is a 1961 British psychological horror film, acclaimed for its atmospheric cinematography and chilling adaptation of Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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mystery novel ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ psychological thriller novel ⓘ suspense novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | The House on Telegraph Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Dana Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Frightened Child NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
mystery fiction
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psychological fiction ⓘ suspense ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySourceFor | The House on Telegraph Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Frightened Child NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | novelist ⓘ |
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 Frightened Child Description of subject: "The Frightened Child" is a suspense novel by Dana Lyon that blends psychological tension and mystery, best known today as the literary source for the film "The House on Telegraph Hill."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.