Lewis Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls
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Lewis Barnavelt is a shy, orphaned boy who discovers his magical abilities while living with his eccentric warlock uncle in the fantasy film "The House with a Clock in Its Walls."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13403905 — 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: Lewis Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls Context triple: [Owen Vaccaro, portrayedCharacter, Lewis Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls]
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A.
Nicolas Gaster
Nicolas Gaster is a film editor known for his work on the 2006 British drama film "Venus."
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B.
Mr. van Pelt
Mr. van Pelt is the often-unseen father of Rerun, Lucy, and Linus van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip universe.
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C.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
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D.
Charlie Runkle
Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
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E.
Walter Vale
Walter Vale is a disillusioned, widowed college professor who undergoes a profound personal transformation after forming unexpected friendships with undocumented immigrants in the drama film "The Visitor."
- 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: Lewis Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls Target entity description: Lewis Barnavelt is a shy, orphaned boy who discovers his magical abilities while living with his eccentric warlock uncle in the fantasy film "The House with a Clock in Its Walls."
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A.
Nicolas Gaster
Nicolas Gaster is a film editor known for his work on the 2006 British drama film "Venus."
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B.
Mr. van Pelt
Mr. van Pelt is the often-unseen father of Rerun, Lucy, and Linus van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip universe.
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C.
Wilbur Whateley
Wilbur Whateley is a monstrous, part-human offspring of the cosmic entity Yog-Sothoth in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, central to the events of the novella "The Dunwich Horror."
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D.
Charlie Runkle
Charlie Runkle is a fictional Hollywood talent agent and the loyal but often hapless best friend of writer Hank Moody on the television series "Californication."
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E.
Walter Vale
Walter Vale is a disillusioned, widowed college professor who undergoes a profound personal transformation after forming unexpected friendships with undocumented immigrants in the drama film "The Visitor."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Lewis Barnavelt (novel character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ageGroup | child ⓘ |
| ally |
Florence Zimmerman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Barnavelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The House with a Clock in Its Walls (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterIn | The House with a Clock in Its Walls (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriend | Florence Zimmerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | John Bellairs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discovers | hidden clock in the walls ⓘ |
| familyName | Barnavelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The House with a Clock in Its Walls universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | fantasy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guardian | Jonathan Barnavelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbility | magic ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
curious
ⓘ
insecure ⓘ kind-hearted ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jonathan Barnavelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOrphan | true ⓘ |
| livesWith | Jonathan Barnavelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | warlock-in-training ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | shy ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Owen Vaccaro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocationInWork | Jonathan Barnavelt's house ⓘ |
| relativeType | uncle ⓘ |
| residence | New Zebedee, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Lewis Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls Description of subject: Lewis Barnavelt is a shy, orphaned boy who discovers his magical abilities while living with his eccentric warlock uncle in the fantasy film "The House with a Clock in Its Walls."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.